Death and the serpent : immortality in science fiction and fantasy

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Introduction / Donald M. Hassler

Why was I born if it wasn't forever? / Carl B. Yoke

Is there life after immortality? / Merritt Abrash

The mechanics of immortality / Michael R. Collings

Immortal feminist communities of women: a recent idea in science fiction / Marleen Barr

The enchanter awakes: Merlin in modern fantasy / Raymond H. Thompson

A long day's dying: the elves of J.R.R. Tolkien and Sylvia Townsend Warner / Robert Crossley

Deathless humans in horror fiction / Samuel H. Vasbinder

Condemed to life: "the mortal immortal" and "the man who never grew young" / Nick O'Donohoe

The sign of the worm: images of death and immortality in the fiction of E.R. Eddison / Helmut W. Pesch

Olaf Stapledon and the immortal spirit / Curtis C. Smith

Growing old with Robert A. Heinlein / C.W. Sullivan III

H.P. Lovecraft's immortal culture / John McInnis

Dancing on the tightrope: immortality in Roger Zelazny / Joseph Sanders

A question of balance: death and immortality in Frank Herbert's Dune series / Susan McLean

Larry Niven: immortality and transcendence in the fiction of James Tiptree, Jr. / Mark Siegel

The disease of longevity: James Gunn's The Immortals / Theodore Krulik

The jaded eternals: immortality and imperfection in Jack Vance's To Live Forever / Gregory M. Shreve

Immortal man and mortal overlord: the case for intertexuality / Stephen H. Goldman

List of works on immortality in science fiction / Carl B. Yoke