Deep Thoughts: Proceedings of Life, the Universe, & Everything XI covers the keynote addresses and academic papers presented from February 10–13, 1993 at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. The contents are as follows:
- “Introduction” by Marny K. Parkin
- “The Distance to the Future: Reworking and Temporally Inverting Bakhtin’s ‘Novel and Epic'” by Brian Evenson
- “Thresholds of Recognition and Dismay: Portrayals of the Feminine Other in Two Nineteenth-Century Works of Symbolic Fantasy” by Lisa Stapleton Melanson
- “The Popcorn Theory of Success” by Kevin J. Anderson
- “Spin-Doctor and Early Post-Feminist: Marion Zimmer Bradley” by Jane Thompson
- “The Wayward Automaton: Reconstructing Identity” by Phillip Johansen
- “Where I Get My Ideas” by Barbara Hambly
- “Where No Woman Has Gone Before: A Sociolinguistic Study of Gender Roles in Star Trek” by Jennifer Rey
- “Science Fiction as the Classroom Text: Teaching Alternate Worlds” by Jane Thompson
- “Symbolic Action in Beowulf: Using Kenneth Burke’s Pentad to Understand Beowulf’s Motives” by Gary Layne Hatch
- “The Book of Mormon: Artifact or Artifice?” by Orson Scott Card
- “Zelazny’s Merlin and the Wheel of Life” by Norman Peercy
Edited by Marny K. Parkin and Steve Setzer. Originally published through TLE Press, Provo, Utah.
