"Selected Essays from the Twelfth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts." First edition 1995. Contains essays on topics ranging from Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow" to the film adaptation of H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine," as well as the work of Ursula K. LeGuin, William Gibson, Margaret Atwood, and Mark Twain. Oh, and also "Little Shop of Horrors." A worthy addition to the library of any serious connoisseur of science fiction and fantasy literature.