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Article: Science fiction and the playing fields of Eaton.(J. Lloyd Eaton)(Critical essay)
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- Extrapolation
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- March 22, 2006
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Note: this essay was originally written to serve as the afterword in a projected collection of essays from the first ten years of the Eaton Conference.
In its early years, I experienced the J. Lloyd Eaton Conferences on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, long held every year at the University of California, Riverside, only as an awestruck spectator, listening to distinguished scholars as they analyzed works of science fiction and fantasy at the podium and fielded stimulating questions from the audience. Later, I became a regular speaker and panelist at those conferences, and by the mid-1990s, I was serving as a conference coordinator, along with George ...