Do androids feel pain or prefer Mary Ann over Ginger? Where do Carl Sagen and Stanley Kubrick get their ideas for science fiction stories? (Academic Panel). __ || __ Why Do Droids Feel Pain?: And Other Questions About Consciousness You Were Afraid To Ask by Christopher N Au, ACCESS Capabilities, Inc. Why would someone program droids to feel pain? Was someone just a sadist or is it indicative of a deeper truth? We barely understand consciousness but with R2s help we may yet gain such enlightenment. __ || __ Ginger or Mary Ann? The Sex Symbol vs. The Girl Next Door in Terry Brooks' "Elfstones Of Shannara" by Ernest J Enchelmayer, Arkansas Tech University. A perplexing scenario for Wil Ohmsford: can he have his coconut cream pie and eat it, too? The case for Mary Ann and Ginger types as female leads in Terry Brooks’ “The Elfstones of Shannara.” __ || __ From Cervantes’ Dark Spain To Sagan’s Light-Filled Vega: How Don Quixote Gave Birth to Contact by Michael R Gordon, University of North Carolina Wilmington. Wormholes, not windmills, make Don Quixote indispensable to the science fiction genre. The space-time conundrum provoked by the knight’s descent into a cave provides a model for the climax of Carl Sagan’s novel Contact. __ || __ Science Fiction Sublimity in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey by Jerold J. Abrams, Creighton University. Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey realizes the aesthetic height of cinematic beauty in its achievement of science fiction sublimity. .
This room can be found on the 1st floor, near Rays on the Bay.