Deep Thoughts: Proceedings of Life, the Universe, & Everything XIV covers the keynote addresses and academic papers presented from January 31–February 3, 1996 at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. The contents are as follows:
- “Nobody Here Still but Us Orcs…: An Incomplete History of Life, the Universe, & (Mostly) Everything” by Lee Allred
- “The Problem of Portraying Good in Fiction” by Dave Wolverton
- “Mistakes, Misreadings, and Attitudes” by Patricia C. Wrede
- “Writing the Fantastic and Religion: Some Ruminations on the Role of Poetry” by Michael R. Collings
- “Saints and Scientists” by Richard T. Wootton
- “On Moral Fiction: The Gardnerian Ideal and the Mormon Poetic” by Lee Allred
- “Jefferson, Whiggery, and the Nature of Good in American Science Fiction and Fantasy” by Steve Setzer
Edited by Marny K. Parkin and Steve Setzer. Originally published through LTU&E, Provo, Utah. ISSN 1073-4864.
