On survival: the survival theme in science fiction / Survival psychology in Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon / The survival theme in literature: an overview / An evolution of survival in American short fiction: stories by Jack London, Ray Bradbury, Octavia E. Butler, and George Saunders, Steve Gronert Ellerhoff -- Survival (and degeneration?) of the fittest in Kipling's "The mark of the beast" and Stevenson's Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde / The Apostle Paul as Odyssean survivor / The frontier of tragedy: survival in Measure for measure / Survival as a theme in the sequel to Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / By the skin of their teeth: surviving the vampire in Bram Stoker's Dracula / Issues of survival in Jack London's "In a far country" / Virtue and survival in The grapes of wrath / Survival as a theme in Philip Larkin's poetry: from the Mid-50s to the mid-60s / The last supper: culinary safety and salvation in recent science fiction, Paul N. Duke -- Surviving dystopia: Octavia Butler and Margaret Atwood / Responses to Christopher McCandless in Into the wild