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How and when does there come to be an |an\u00adthropology of the alien?” This set of essays, written for the eighth J. Lloyd Eaton Confer\u00adence on Fantasy and Science Fiction, is con\u00adcerned with the significance of that question. |[Anthropology] is the science that must desig\u00adnate the alien if it is to redefine a place for itself in the universe,” according to the Introduction. The idea of the alien is not new. In the Re\u00adnaissance, Montaigne’s purpose in describing an alien encounter was excorporation--man\u00adkind was the |savage” because the artificial devices of nature controlled him. Shake\u00adspeare’s version of the alien encounter was in\u00adcorporation; his character of Caliban is brought to the artificial, political world of man and incor\u00adporated into the body politic |The essays in this volume . . . show, in their general orientation, that the tribe of Shakespeare still, in literary studies at least, outnumbers that of Montaigne.” These essays show the interrelation of the excorporating pos\u00adsibilities to the internal soundings of the alien encounter within the human mind and form. This book is divided into three parts: |Searchings: The Quest for the Alien” includes |The Aliens in Our Mind,” by Larry Niven; |Effing the Ineffable,” by Gregory Benford; |Border Patrols,” by Michael Beehler; |Alien Aliens,” by Pascal Ducommun; and |Metamorphoses of the Dragon,” by George E. Slusser. |Sightings: The Aliens among Us” includes |Discriminating among Friends,” by John Huntington; |Sex, Superman, Sociobiology,” by Joseph D. Miller; |Cowboys and Telepaths,” by Eric S. Rabkin; |Robots,” by Noel Perrin; |Aliens in the Supermarket,” by George R. Guffey; and |Aliens 'R’ U.S.,” by Zoe Sofia. |Soundings: Man as the Alien” includes |H. G. Wells’ Familiar Aliens,” by John R. Reed; |Inspiration and Possession,” by Clayton Koelb; |Cybernauts in Cyberspace,” by David Porush; |The Human Alien,” by Leighton Brett Cooke; |From Astarte to Barbie,” by Frank McConnell; and |An Indication of Monsters;” by Colin Greenland.

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