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King's College London, Centre for Late Antique & Medieval Studies, London
Medieval science fiction: An impossible fantasy? / Carl Kears & James Paz -- Is "Beowulf" science fiction / Daniel Anlezark -- The future is a foreign country: The legend of the seven sleepers and the Anglo-Saxon sense of the past / R.M. Liuzza --...
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Medieval science fiction: An impossible fantasy? / Carl Kears & James Paz -- Is "Beowulf" science fiction / Daniel Anlezark -- The future is a foreign country: The legend of the seven sleepers and the Anglo-Saxon sense of the past / R.M. Liuzza -- Untimely travel: Living and dying in Connie Willis's "Doomsday Book" / Patricia Clare Ingham -- 'On second thought, let's not go to Camelot ... 'Tis a silly space': Star trek and the inconsequence of SF medievalism / Jeff Massey -- "Those two green children which Nubrigensis speaks of in his time, that fell from heaven', or the Origins of science fiction / Mary Baine Campbell -- Aliens and Anglo-Saxons in Edwin Morgan's "The first men on Mercury' / Dennis Ferhatovic -- The riddle of medieval technology / Andy Sawyer -- Dreams of war, dreams of dragon's fire: Conrad Kyeser's "Bellifortis" / Alison Harthill -- Courtley love on Mars: E.R. Burroughs and the medieval lineage of planetary romance / Andrew Scheil -- The medieval dying earth / James Paz -- Catapunk: Toward a medieval aesthetic of science fiction / Minsoo Kang -- Medieval cosmology and world building / Guy Consolmagno -- Discovering "Eifelheim" / Michael F. Flynn
Based on papers presented at the Leeds International Medieval Congress, 2013, and a round table held at the "Being Human" Arts & Humanities Festival, 2013