Deep Thoughts: Proceedings of Life, the Universe, & Everything XII covers the keynote addresses and academic papers presented from February 16–19, 1994 at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. The contents are as follows:
- “Introduction” by Steve Setzer
- “Psycho-literary Devices in Zelanzy’s Madwand” by Norman Peercy
- “When Science Writes the Fiction” by Robert L. Forward
- “Science Fiction and the Marvelous: Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun and Roger Zelazny’s This Immortal” by Jonathan Langford
- “Breaking the Rules without Knowing It” by Katherine Kurtz
- “Twenty-First-Century Space Propulsion” by Robert L. Forward
- “‘When It Comes It’s Wonderful’: Art versus Craft in Writing” by Roger Zelazny
- “Organizational Devices in the Darkover Novels” by Norman Peercy
Edited by Steve Setzer and Marny K. Parkin. Originally published through LTU&E, Provo, Utah. ISSN 1073-4864.
