Table of Contents
Preface vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
1 Authority Is Constructed and Contextual 1
Renaissance Man T. E. D. Klein 4
The Liberation of Rome Robin Hemley 10
The Amphibious Cavalry Gap by J. J. Trembly as told to James E. Thompson 15
2 Information Creation as a Process 19
Megaphone Rick Cook 22
The Voice from the Curious Cube by Nelson Bond 29
The King Alan M. Cvancara 33
3 Information Has Value 37
The Censors Luisa Valenzuela (Translated by David Unger) 40
The Memory Priest of the Creech People Paul Theroux 44
The People Who Owned the Bible Will Shetterly 47
4 Research as Inquiry 51
A Fable by Robert Fox 54
College Queen by William Brandon 58
To Serve Mail by Damon Knight 62
5 Scholarship as Conversation 71
An Old Man by Guy de Maupassant (translated Francis Steegmuller) 75
Charles Shirley Jackson 80
Mind Over Mayhem by Mack Reynolds 86
6 Searching as Strategic Exploration 91
The World Where Wishes Worked Stephen Goldin 94
Many Happy Returns Justin Case 98
They're Made Out of Meat Terry Bisson 105
About the Authors 109
