ndary Universe
A conference
on the writer
and science fiction
- Friday
Registration, Keller Conference Center
Reception. Assembly Room, Nittany Lion Inn (cash bar)
Opening Session: Science Fiction, an Overview
Chairman • Arthur 0. Lewis (Penn State), Conference Co-Chairman
Greetings Stanley F. Paulson (Penn State), Dean, College of the
Liberal Arts
Patrick G Hogan, Jr. (Hciuston): "Philosophical Limita
lions of Science Fiction"
Leslie A Fiedler (SUNY, Buffalo)
the University Community"
Saturday
Myth and the Science Fiction Writer
Chairman: Wilfred T. Jewkes (Penn State)
Speakers: . SC. Fredericks (Indiana): "Revivals of Ancient Mytholo.
goes in Current Science Fiction and Fantasy"
Valerie Broege (Western Ontario): "The Myth of the Corn.
puter in Science Fiction"
David C. Hartwell, New American Library
Speakers
Discussant.
Panel: litOpias
Chairman
Keynote paper:
Arthur 0 Lewis (Penn State), Conference Co-Chairman
Lyman T. Sargent (Missouri, St. Louis): "American and
English Utopian Literature: Similarities and Differences"
Carolyn H. Rhodes (Old Dominion)
Phillip E. Stebbins (Penn State)
Patrick G. Hogan, Jr. (Houston)
The Beginnings of Modern Science Fiction: Wells
Chairman: Thomas Clareson (Wooster), President, Science Fiction
Research Association
Speakers
Panelists
Robert M. Philmus (Loyola, Montreal); "Revisions of the
Future: The Serialized Versions of 'The Time Machine' "
Curtis C. Smith (SUNY, Albany): "FL G. Wells' Discovery of
the Future",
Julius Kagarlitski State Institute of Theatrical Art, Moscow)
Charles W. Mann, Jr. (Penn State)
Discussants
Probing the Limits
Chaitman:
tSpeakers.S
Robert F. tima, Jr. (Penn State)
Veronica M. S. Kennedy (St. John's): "The Unending Con
flict: The Battle between Good and Evil as Exemplified in
the Works of C. S. Lewis and Dennis Wheatley"
Michael W. McClintock (Montana): "A Case of Conscience:
Action and Reality"
Science Fiction after Wells
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Veronica M. S. Kennedy (St. John's)
Gerard W. O'Connor (Lowell Technological): "George Men
England's Golden Blight"
Carolyn H. Rhodes (Old Dominion): "Taylorism in Zamiatin's
We"
Frederick Pohi, Bantam Books: "Science Fiction: The In
novators"
Panel: Wells and His Contemporaries
Chairman: Stanley Weintraub (Penn State), Director, institute for the
Arts and HuManistic Studies.
Robert M. Phiknus (Loyola, Montreal)
Thomas D. Claieson (Wooster), President, SFRA
Jack Williamson (Eastern New Mexico)
John R. Pfeafer (Central Michigan)
The American Science Fiction Magazine
Chairman: P. Schuyler Miler, Book Review Editor, Analog
Speakers: Jack Wfikamson (Eastern New Mexico): "The Years of
Wonder.:'
Wiliam W. J. Kennedy (SUNY, Queensborough): 'The
Boundanes of Science Fiction and Fantasy"
Clifford D.Simak, Minneapolis Tribune
Frederick Pohl, Bantam Books
Panel: Teaching Science Fiction: The Use of Film (Film will be shown)
Chairman: James Gunn (Kansas)
Panelists: Nor A. Rogers (Drake) '
Panelists
Discussants
Leslie P. Greenhill (Penn State), Assistant Vice-President
for Academic Services
Awards Banquet
Chairman: .
Speakers:
Philip Klitis4Penn State), Conference Co-Chairman
Thomas D. Clareson (Wooster), President SFRA: Remarks
and Presentation of Pilgrim Award, 1973
J. 0. RaileS (North Carolina and Clemson). Pilgrim Award,
1970: "The Evolution of Pilgrims"
Julius Kagarlltskl (State Institute of Theatrical Art, Moscow),
Pilgrim Award, 1972: "Remarks"
Sunday
The Campbell Period (the Forties)
Chairman: Theodore H. Sturgeon, New York Times Book Review
Speakers: James Gunn (Kansas): "Kuttner-Moore and Science Fic
tion in the Fort""
Joseph H. fatrouch, Jr. :Dayton): "Asimov's Foundation
Trilogy"
Thomas D. Cfareson (Wooster), President, SFRA: 'Themes
of Arthur C. Clarke and Clifford D. Simak"
Mord D. Simak, Minneapolis Tribune
Dtscussant
What are all these famous science fiction
writers doing in State College?'
Attending Secondary Universe—the
conference of the Science Fiction
Research Association and the Modern
Languages Associ,Aion. •
Penn State is hosting the sixth' annual
Secondary Universe conference this
weekend in the Keller Conference Center.
Among the authors on campus are Hugo
Award winners Roger Zelazny, Frederik
Pohl, Harlan Ellison, John Brunner arid
Gordon Dickson.
According to Phillip Klass, professor of
English and Conference co , eliairman,
"This is the first time that as many limiters
will be involved in this conference."
For a $5 registration fee, students may
attend four days of the conference.
Registration for, non-students is $8.50.
Saturday night will feature an awards
banquet where the. Pilgrim Award for
science fiction scholarship will be
'Science Fiction and
11-12:30 p.m
2-3:45 p.m
4-5:45 p.m
9-12 am
Pahel: Science Fiction: The Communication of Technological Concepts
Chairman: Richard G. Cunningham (Penn State), Vice-President for
Research and Technology Corporation •
Robert U. Ayres, Vice-President, Internationl Research
and Technology Corporation I
Carolyn H. Rhodes (Old Dominion) - ,
Richard D. Schein (Penn State), Director, Environmental
Quality Programs\ 1
Jerry Poumelle, President, Science Flytion l Writers of
America
The Galaxy Fantasy and SF Period (the Fifties) i
Chairman: Philip Klass "William Tenn" (Penn State) 1
Speakers: Kent Forrester (Murray State): "The Dangers of Being
Earnest: The Clash between Ideas arid Narrative in The
Martian Chronicles" • .
Theodore Sturgeon, New York Times Book Review: "The
1 Editorial Climate of More Than Humart: H. L. Gold and
Anthony Boucher"
1 Ivor A. Rogers (Drake): "Heinlein at 24 Fram'es per Sec
ond:
1 Destination Moon Revisted"
Science Fiction and Society
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p!lairman: Lyman T. Sargent (Missouri, St. Louis) .
Speakers: Joanna Russ (SUNY, Harpur): "On Propaganda" F
Izzy Abrahami (Israel) Playwright and Novelist: "Political
Systems and Science Fiction"
Illiscussant: Murray S. Martin (Penn State), Associate Director of U
-1 braries
Science Fiction in the Last Two Decades, I 1 i
Panelists
Frederick Pohl, Bantam Books '
Stuart L Burns (Drake): "Guest for Unity: The Theme of the
Whole Man in the Fiction of Robert Silverberg" :
Gordon R. Dickson, Science Fiction Writers of America:
.1 "The Writer's Use of Theme in Science Fiction"
Discussant: Theodore Cogswell (Keystone)
Teaching Science Fiction:The Methods and Goals
Chairman: JacletiViliamson (Eastern New Mexico) I
Speakers: Kent Forrester (Murray State): "An Archetypal Experience
I of a Teacher of Science. Fiction" .
Beverly Friend (Illinois, Chicago): 'The Classrdom in Orbit"
I : Alice Avey (Bellefonte High School): "Science Fiction in a
J Secondary School"
Science Fiction in the Last Two Decades, II I
Chairman: Roger Zelazny, Science Fiction Writers of America
Speakers: Douglas Barbour (Alberta): "Samuel R. Delaney and the
Arts of Fiction" I
Father Chariell Brady (Dayton): "The Computers as Symbol
of God: ElEson's Macabre Exodus" I i
Discussant: John Brunner (England), Science Fiction Foundation
Science Fiction and Bibliography
Chairman: Harrison T. Meserole (Penn State), Association BIM°.
graPher, The Modem Language - Association i
Hal W. Hall (Texas A & h 1): "The Bibliographical Control
of Science Fiction: Current State and Future Needs"
Charles W. Mann, Jr. (Penn State), Head, Special Ciltilec
bons: "Libraries and Science Action" , Y
Discussant: Lloyd W. Currey (L W. Currey, Rare Books, inc.)
The Problem of Prediction
Dhairman: Rustum Roy (Penn State), Director, Materials Research
1 Laboratory
Speakers: John Brunner (England), Science Fiction • Foundation:
'Through the Future's Fence" i •
,
Robert U. Ayres, Vice-President, International Research-'
and Technology Corporation: "Is There a Scientific Basis
for Social Systems Forecasting7'
tzzy Abrahami (Israel) Playwright and Noveist
Jerry Poumelle, President, Science Maori Writers of
America; Former Director, Boeing Human FaCtors Labora
tory / i
- . 4 ' Monday , - 1
Round Table: Literary Perspectives, the Science Fiction Writer -and His
Critics Today-
Chairman:
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Speakers:
Chairman
Speakers
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Discussants
Murray S.. Martin (Penn State), Associate Director of U
braries
David M. Larson (Franklin and Marshall): "Strange Parallels:
18th Century Attacks on the Novel and Modem Censure of
Speculative Fiction"
Stuart +l.'Stock (Penn State): "Scene Fiction and the
Problem of the Academic Critic"
David C. Hartwell. New American Library: Science Fiction:
An Editor's View of the State of the Art Today".
' Roger Zelazny. Science Fiction Writers of America: "Sci
ence Fiction: A Writers Vl*, of . the State of the Art To
day"
Discussants: Frederik Pohl, Bantam Books
Jams Kagaretski (State Institute of Theatrical An, Moscow),
Pilgrim Award, 1972.
netsson
ness Meeting, Science Fiction Research Association
presented. Banquet tickets are $6.5d and
may be bought at the registration table in
the Conference Center.
Klass said Stanley Weintraub's Institute
for the Arts and Humanistic Studies "has,
come up with a tremendous, amount of
money to make it possible for ;us to bring
people here from all over the world." One
of the people Weintraub, also an English
professor here, has brought to Penn State
is Julius Kagarlitski.
A recognized authority on H.G. Wells,
Kagarlitski won the Pilgrim Award last
year. He is one of the speakers scheduled
for Saturday's banquet.
Another international conference visitor
is Izzy Abrahami, an Israeli playwright
and novelist. He will read a paper entitled
"Political Systems and Science Fiction"
Saturday.
Abrahami wrote a futuristic musical,
"Kfotz," which Klass said "was
suppressed by the Israeli cabbie.