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# | Том | Выпуск | Дата | Автор(ы) | Название статьи | Страница |
#23 | Volume 8 | Part 1 | March 1981 | SCIENCE FICTION THROUGH H.G. WELLS | ||
Editorial | 1 | |||||
Robert M. Philmus | The Satiric Ambivalence of The Island of Doctor Moreau | 2 | ||||
David Lake | The Whiteness of Griffin and H.G. Wells's Images of Death 1897-1914 | 12 | ||||
William J. Scheick | Toward the Ultra-SF Novel: H.G. Wells's Star Begotten | 19 | ||||
Michael Tritt | Byron's «Darkness» and Asimov's «'Nightfall» | 26 | ||||
Manfred Nagl | National Peculiarities in German SF | 29 | ||||
H.G. Wells | Woman and Primitive Culture | 35 | ||||
Marc Angenot and Nadia Khouri | An International Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction | 38 | ||||
OTHER ARTICLES | ||||||
Stanislaw Lem | Metafantasia: The Possibilities of SF | 54 | ||||
Darko Suvin | Playful Cognizing, or Technical Errors in Harmonyville: The SF of Johanna and Günter Braun | 72 | ||||
REVIEW ARTICLES | ||||||
Aija Ozolins | Twelve Essays on Frankenstein | 80 | ||||
Franz Rottensteiner | Le Guin's Fantasy | 87 | ||||
John Fekete | Circumnavigating Ursula Le Guin | 91 | ||||
Carlo Pagetti | Recent Italian Criticism on Utopia and SF | 99 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
Voyages to Nowhereland (MA) | 101 | |||||
Strategies of Utopilanism (MA) | 104 | |||||
Jules Verne in Rumania, Germany, France, and Quebec (MA) | 104 | |||||
About H.G. Wells (Franz Rottensteiner) | 106 | |||||
SF Iconography (David Samuelson) | 107 | |||||
Sometimes Critical Encounters (Donald Lawler) | 108 | |||||
A Bibliography of SF and Fantasy in the Low Countries (Joe Dautzenberg) | 110 | |||||
A Danish Review (MA) | 112 | |||||
The Yearbook of French SF (MA) | 112 | |||||
Darko Suvin | A Brief Valedictory | 114 | ||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
The Borgo Press: Setting the Record Straight (Robert Reginald) | 116 | |||||
News on the Italian Front (Nadia Khouri, RMP, and Carlo Pagetti) | 116 | |||||
Florida Conference on the Fantastic (Robert Collins) | 117 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 119 | |||||
#24 | Volume 8 | Part 2 | July 1981 | ARTICLES | ||
Mark Rose | Filling the Void: Verne, Wells, and Lem | 121 | ||||
E.D. Mackerness | Zola, Wells, and «The Coming Beast | 143 | ||||
John L. Grigsby | Asimov's Foundation Trilogy and Herbert's Dune Trilogy: A Vision Reversed | 149 | ||||
David J. Lake | Le Guin's Twofold Vision: Contrary Image Sets in The Left Hand of Darkness | 156 | ||||
Richard Alan Schwartz | Thomas Pynchon and the Evolution of Fiction | 165 | ||||
J.A. Dautzenberg | A Survey of Dutch and Flemish Science Fiction | 173 | ||||
John Robert Colombo | Science Fiction in Bulgaria | 187 | ||||
REVIEW ARTICLES | ||||||
Donald Watson | From Fantasy to Feasibility; or, The Romance of the Future | 191 | ||||
R.D. Mullen | The OUP Series: Franklin on Heinlein, McConnell on Wells | 199 | ||||
Marc Angenot and Nadia Khouri | Science Fiction in Old San Francisco | 208 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
The Dynamics of Genre: A New Theoretical Approach (Artur Blaim) | 211 | |||||
Science and Science Fiction (Dagmar Barnouw) | 215 | |||||
Conjectural Fiction in the 18th Century (MA) | 217 | |||||
Reinterpreting Frankenstein (Mary J. Elkins) | 218 | |||||
Rediscovering Jean Ray (MA) | 219 | |||||
Andre Norton Reprinted (Roger Schlobin) | 220 | |||||
Annotating Jose Farmer (Mark Siegel) | 221 | |||||
A Variety of Voices (Donald M. Hassler) | 222 | |||||
Science Fiction in Popular Culture (Will Straw) | 222 | |||||
Nebulous Awards (1978) (MA) | 223 | |||||
Science Fiction Bibliographies from G. K. Hall (Gary Wolfe) | 224 | |||||
First Edition(s) (RMP) | 225 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
Obituaries | 228 | |||||
On Lem on Asimov | 228 | |||||
Erratum | 229 | |||||
SF in Quebec: A Postscript | 229 | |||||
Science-Fiction and Fantasy Art Show | 229 | |||||
SF Workshop: April In Paris | 229 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 231 | |||||
#25 | Volume 8 | Part 3 | November 1981 | ARTICLES | ||
Samuel R. Delany | Some Reflections on SF Criticism | 233 | ||||
John Huntington | Thinking by Opposition: The «Two-World» Structure in H.G. Wells's Short Fiction | 240 | ||||
Frank Scafella | The White Sphinx and The Time Machine | 255 | ||||
Patrick A. McCarthy | Star Maker: Olaf Stapledon's Divine Tragedy | 266 | ||||
Albert I. Berger | Love, Death, and the Atomic Bomb: Sexuality and Community in Science Fiction, 1935-55 | 280 | ||||
Jeanne Murray Walker | Reciprocity and Exchange in William Golding's The Inheritors | 297 | ||||
SCIENCE FICTION AND TEACHING | ||||||
E.E. Nunan and David Homer | Science, Science Fiction, and a Radical Science Education | 311 | ||||
REVIEW ARTICLE | ||||||
Dagmar Barnouw | Linguistics and Science Fiction | 331 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
On a Variety of SF Authors (Peter Fitting) | 335 | |||||
Ecriture or Knowledge (Donald M. Hassler) | 336 | |||||
Evaluating Vance, Interpreting Bradbury (Mark Siegel) | 337 | |||||
(Re)discovering Mark Clifton (Michael Tritt) | 338 | |||||
From Poets' Lives to Reader's Guides and Back (Donald M. Hassler) | 339 | |||||
Death and Science Fiction (Peter Fitting) | 340 | |||||
A Teutonic Survey of SF Criticism (Ira Tschimmel) | 341 | |||||
Science and Technology in the US: A Bibliography (MA) | 342 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
The Identity of E.V. Odle (John Clute) | 343 | |||||
In Memory of Marjorie Nicholson (David Y. Hughes) | 343 | |||||
A New Canadian Fanzine | 344 | |||||
Jerucon '82 (Sheldon Teitelbaum) | 344 | |||||
The Starmont Series: A Clarification (Roger C. Schiobin) | 344 | |||||
Immortality in SF: A Call for Papers (Donald M. Hassler) | 344 | |||||
The Year's Work in SF Criticism: A Call for Volunteer Bibliographers (Marshall B. Tymn) | 345 | |||||
Conference on the Fantastic (Robert A. Collins) | 345 | |||||
Index to Volume 8 | 347 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 352 | |||||
#26 | Volume 9 | Part 1 | March 1982 | ARTICLES | ||
Darko Suvin | Narrative Logic, Ideological Domination, and the Range of SF: A Hypothesis with a Historical Test | 1 | ||||
John Rieder | Embracing the Alien: SF in Mass Culture | 26 | ||||
H. Bruce Franklin | America as Science Fiction: 1939 | 38 | ||||
George Slusser | Heinlein's Perpetual Motion Fur Farm | 51 | ||||
John Dean | The Uses of Wilderness in American SF | 68 | ||||
BIBLIOGRAPHY | ||||||
John Bell | Uneasy Union: A Checklist of English-Language SF Concerning Canadian Separatist Conflicts | 82 | ||||
REVIEW ARTICLES | ||||||
Robert M. Philmus | Science Fiction and Alienation | 89 | ||||
Andrew Gordon | Science-Fiction Film Criticism | 93 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
A Man of the Enlightenment (MA) | 96 | |||||
In Praise of (Baumian) Utopianism (Leonard Mendelsohn) | 96 | |||||
The Merits of Samuel R. Delany (Gary Wolfe) | 98 | |||||
Delany and Zelazny from G.K. Hall (Roger C. Schlobin) | 99 | |||||
An Index of SF Criticism and Book Reviews (CE) | 100 | |||||
Writings about the Future (MA) | 102 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
Bedford Vindicated: A Response to Carlo Pagetti on The First Men in the Moon (John Milstead) | 103 | |||||
Reflections on «Reflections on SF Criticism» (Damon Knight, Samuel R. Delany) | 105 | |||||
SF and Teaching in Quebec (Jean-Marc Gouanvic) | 107 | |||||
Attention «Wellsians» | 108 | |||||
Feminine Dimensions of SF: A Call for Papers | 109 | |||||
Some Words for our Readers and Writers | 110 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 112 | |||||
Notes on SFS Style | 113 | |||||
#27 | Volume 9 | Part 2 | July 1982 | UTOPIA AND ANTI-UTOPIA | ||
Editorial Introduction | 115 | |||||
H.G. Wells | Utopias | 117 | ||||
John Huntington | Utopian and Anti-Utopian Logic: H.G Wells and his Successors | 122 | ||||
Fredric Jameson | Progress Versus Utopia; or, Can We Imagine the Future? | 147 | ||||
Tom Moylan | The Locus of Hope: Utopia Versus Ideology | 159 | ||||
Eugene D. Hill | The Place of the Future: Louis Marin and his Utopiques | 167 | ||||
Alessandro Portelli | Jack London's Missing Revolution: Notes on The Iron Heel | 180 | ||||
David Ketterer | Covering A Case of Conscience | 195 | ||||
REVIEW ARTICLES | ||||||
Robert Griffin | Charting More's Utopia | 215 | ||||
Donald Watson | Boundaries of Genre | 217 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
Pirates in Paradise (MA) | 221 | |||||
Science-Ficidon «Stereotypes» (Ewa Stachniak) | 221 | |||||
Romanian SF (MA) | 223 | |||||
Le Guin by a Lover of the Marvellous (MA) | 223 | |||||
Guides to Science Fiction (RMP) | 224 | |||||
Science Fiction for the Classroom (C. Bruce Hunter) | 225 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
In Memory of Philip K. Dick (Patricia Warrick) | 227 | |||||
Another Death «in the Family» (RMP) | 228 | |||||
Death and the Denial of History: The Textual Shadow of the SF Author (David Ketterer) | 228 | |||||
An Exchange on Campbell, Freud, and Wells (Damon Knight and John Rieder) | 230 | |||||
Some Authorial Notes on Alien Encounters (Mark Rose) | 232 | |||||
Conference on Narcissism | 233 | |||||
Orwell in Antwerp | 233 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 234 | |||||
#28 | Volume 9 | Part 3 | November 1982 | THE SCIENCE FICTION OF OLAF STAPLEDON | ||
Patrick McCarthy | Editorial Introduction | 235 | ||||
Editions and Abbreviations | 237 | |||||
Eric Rabkin | The Composite Fiction of Olaf Stapledon | 238 | ||||
Robert Branham | Stapledon's «Agnostic Mysticism» | 249 | ||||
John Huntington | Remembrance of Things to Come: Narrative Technique in Last and First Men | 257 | ||||
Curtis C. Smith | The Manuscript of Last and First Men: Towards a Variorum | 265 | ||||
Amelia A. Rutledge | Star Maker: The Agnostic Quest | 274 | ||||
Roy Arthur Swanson | The Spiritual Factor in Odd John and Sirius | 284 | ||||
Robert Crossley | Politics and the Artist: The Aesthetic of Darkness and the Light | 294 | ||||
Robert Casillo | Olaf Stapledon and John Ruskin | 306 | ||||
REVIEW ARTICLES | ||||||
Fredric Jameson | Towards a New Awareness of Genre | 322 | ||||
Charles Elkins | A Utopian Project | 325 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
Unreal Rhetoric (Gary K. Wolfe) | 330 | |||||
Elements of the Gothic (Gisela Casines) | 331 | |||||
Precarious Bridges (David N. Samuelson) | 333 | |||||
Asimov Summarily Considered (Michael Tritt) | 334 | |||||
(No) Comparison (Donald M. Hassler) | 336 | |||||
An Indispensable Resource (C. Bruce Hunter) | 337 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
Oedipus as Time Traveller (David Ketterer) | 340 | |||||
Death and the Textual Shadow of the SF Author, Again (Gregory Benford and David Ketterer) | 341 | |||||
The Angenot-Khouri Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction: Additions, Corrections, and Comment (Gordon A. Chamberlain) | 342 | |||||
SF at the MLA Convention | 346 | |||||
Images of the Inner and Outer Space: A Conference at Nice | 346 | |||||
SF and the Construction of Reality: A Call for Papers | 347 | |||||
Fantasy and Horror, Aesthetics and Theory: A Call for Papers | 347 | |||||
Index to Volume 9 | 350 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 355 | |||||
#29 | Volume 10 | Part 1 | March 1983 | Editorial | 1 | |
Raymond Federman | An Interview with Stanislaw Lem | 2 | ||||
ARTICLES | ||||||
James Gunn | The Gatekeepers | 15 | ||||
Boris Eizykman | Chance and Science Fiction: SF as Stochastic Fiction | 24 | ||||
Kathleen L. Spencer | The Red Sun is High, the Blue Low: Towards a Stylistic Description of Science Fiction | 35 | ||||
Martin Bridgstock | A Psychological Approach to «Hard» Science Fiction | 50 | ||||
Patrick A. McCarthy | Science Fiction as Creative Revisionism: The Example of Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination | 58 | ||||
H. Bruce Franklin | Don't Look Where We're Going: The Vision of the Future in Science-Fiction Films, 1970-82 | 70 | ||||
Bonnie Shannon McSorley | Buero Vallejo's Mito and El Tragaluz: The Twilight Zone of Hope | 81 | ||||
David Ketterer | A Historical Survey of Canadian Science Fiction | 87 | ||||
REVIEW ARTICLES | ||||||
Charles Elkins | Great Expectations | 101 | ||||
Walter E. Meyers | Problems with Herbert | 106 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
The Eternal Present (Mark Siegel) | 109 | |||||
Waiting for E.T.: The Apocalyptic Literature of «Imminent Expectation» (David Ketterer) | 110 | |||||
A Stopgap Bester (Patrick A. McCarthy) | 112 | |||||
Style and Substance (C. Bruce Hunter) | 113 | |||||
Miscellanea (MA) | 113 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
A Topology of Film Genres (Norman Kagan) | 115 | |||||
The Seventh Annual Institute on the Teaching of SF (James Gunn) | 118 | |||||
New Publications and Awards | 119 | |||||
Three Upcoming Conferences | 119 | |||||
Of Interest to Wellsians | 119 | |||||
A New Publishing Venture | 120 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 121 | |||||
#30 | Volume 10 | Part 2 | July 1983 | Science Fiction in the Nineteenth Century | ||
Editorial Introduction | 123 | |||||
Anca Vlasopolos | Frankenstein's Hidden Skeleton: The Psycho-Politics of Oppression | 125 | ||||
Maurice J. Bennett | Edgar Allan Poe and the Tradition of Lunar Speculation | 137 | ||||
Darko Suvin | Victorian Science Fiction, 1871-85: The Rise of the Alternative History Sub-Genre | 148 | ||||
Nadia Khouri | Lost Worlds and the Revenge of Realism | 170 | ||||
OTHER ARTICLES | ||||||
Margaret Miller | The Ideal Woman in Two Feminist Science-Fiction Utopias | 191 | ||||
David Ketterer | Pantropy, Polyploidy, and Tectogenesis in the Fiction of James Blish and Norman L. Knight | 199 | ||||
Peter Fitting | Reality as Ideological Construct: A Reading of Five Novels by Philip K. Dick | 219 | ||||
REVIEW ARTICLES | ||||||
Marc Angenot | Albert Robida's Twentieth Century | 237 | ||||
Artur Blaim | Encounters with Utopia | 241 | ||||
Linda Leith | Women and Science Fiction | 247 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
Post-War Developments in SF Criticism: A (West) German View (Angela Habermann) | 251 | |||||
Poul Anderson, Technocrat and Bard (Paola Galli Mastrodonato) | 252 | |||||
Trial Reading (Donald M. Hassler) | 253 | |||||
Promiscuous Futurology (Richard Dwyer) | 254 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
Corrigenda (Gordon B. Chamberlain) | 256 | |||||
Misleading Impression (Lynn F. Williams) | 256 | |||||
Wells's Sphinx and Edward Bellamy (RMP) | 256 | |||||
A Call for Papers on Black-American SF Writers | 257 | |||||
Kansas Center for the Study of SF | 257 | |||||
Science Fiction in Review | 258 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 259 | |||||
#31 | Volume 10 | Part 3 | November 1983 | Extraliterary Forms of Science Fiction | ||
Editorial Introduction | 261 | |||||
Manfred Nagl | The Science-Fiction Film in Historical Perspective | 262 | ||||
J.E. Svilpis | Science-Fiction Magazine Illustration: A Semiotic Analysis | 278 | ||||
Karin Blair | Sex and Star Trek | 292 | ||||
Andrew Gordon | E. T. as Fairy Tale | 298 | ||||
OTHER ARTICLES | ||||||
Victoria Myers | Conversational Technique in Ursula Le Guin: A Speech-Act Analysis | 306 | ||||
Stanislaw Lem | About the Strugatskys' Roadside Picnic | 317 | ||||
REVIEW ARTICLES | ||||||
Dagmar Barnouw | Melancholy Here Now: Artificial and Alien Intelligence | 333 | ||||
Daniel Gerould | On Soviet Science Fiction | 341 | ||||
Marc Angenot | Utopia as State Novel | 344 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
Integrations (Casey Fredericks) | 346 | |||||
Minding the Gap (David N. Samuelson) | 347 | |||||
New Worlds and Beyond (Kathleen L. Spencer) | 348 | |||||
Index Learning: The Le Guin Bibliography (James W. Bittner) | 350 | |||||
Five from the Borgo Press (Peter Fitting) | 352 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
A Memorial to Robert Plank (Franz Rottensteiner) | 356 | |||||
A Plea for the Interdisciplinary (L.B. Cebik) | 357 | |||||
Conferences on Orwell | 358 | |||||
Call for Papers on «The Post-Catastrophe Theme» | 359 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 360 | |||||
Index to Volume 10 | 361 | |||||
Cumulative Index to Volumes 1-10 | 364 | |||||
#32 | Volume 11 | Part 1 | March 1984 | ARTICLES | ||
Robert Shelton | The Mars-Begotten Men of Olaf Stapledon and H.G. Wells | 1 | ||||
Carl Freedman | Towards a Theory of Paranoia: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick | 15 | ||||
Bulent Somay | Towards an Open-Ended Utopia | 25 | ||||
Cecile Lindsay | The Topography of (Science) Fiction: Claude Ollier's Life on Epsilon | 39 | ||||
David Ketterer | The Last Inspirational Gasp of James Blish: The Breath of Brahma | 45 | ||||
Yves Chevrier | Blade Runner; or, The Sociology of Anticipation | 50 | ||||
REVIEW ARTICLES | ||||||
David Y. Hughes | Recent Wells Studies | 61 | ||||
Robert M. Philmus | Undertaking Stapledon | 71 | ||||
John Fekete | The Transmigration of Philip K. Dick | 78 | ||||
FE.L. Priestley | Understanding the «Analytico-Referential» Lion | 82 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
The View from Starmont House (Peter Fitting) | 88 | |||||
Questionable «Dialogues» (Patrick Parrinder) | 90 | |||||
News of Haggard (Kathleen McCormack) | 93 | |||||
Isaac Asimov, by a Friend (Patrick A. McCarthy) | 94 | |||||
A Valuable Record (Gary K. Wolfre.) | .95 | |||||
Polish Science Fiction (Ewa Stachniak) | 96 | |||||
Far from Indispensable (Andrew Gordon) | 97 | |||||
A Bibliographic Guide to «Alternative Sexuality» (Kathleen L. Spencer) | 98 | |||||
Tolerating SF (Linda Leith) | 99 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
Professor Kagarlitsky «Disciplined» (Patrick Parrinder) | 101 | |||||
Embarrassing Reference (Darko Suvin) | 101 | |||||
Hallowe'en and Cinematic Trickery in E.T (David Ketterer and Andrew Gordon) | 102 | |||||
Peter Fitting on the Borgo Press: Two Reactions and a Note on SFS's Reviewing Policy (Robert Reginald, David Mogen, Peter Fitting, RMP) | 102 | |||||
A Case for Uncertainty (Donald M. Hassler) | 106 | |||||
A Demand for the «Social Sciences Perspective» (Harold Lee Prosser, RMP) | 105 | |||||
The First Orwell Conference (Paul Schlueter) | 107 | |||||
Utopian Social Control (MA) | 107 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 108 | |||||
#33 | Volume 11 | Part 2 | July 1984 | ARTICLES | ||
Franz Rottensteiner | Paul Scheerbart, Fantast of «Otherness» | 109 | ||||
Patrick A. McCarthy | Zamyatin and the Nightmare of Technology | 122 | ||||
Louis Tremaine | Historical Consciousness in Stapledon and Malraux | 130 | ||||
Nancy Steffen-Fluhr | Women and the Inner Game of Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 139 | ||||
Clayton Koelb | The Language of Presence in Varley's «The Persistence of Vision» | 154 | ||||
Marie Maclean | Metamorphoses of the Signifier in «Unnatural» Languages | 166 | ||||
John L. Grigsby | Herbert's Reversal of Asimov's Vision Reassessed: Foundation's Edge and God Emperor of Dune | 174 | ||||
Remi-Maure | Science Fiction in Chile | 181 | ||||
John Bell | The Persistence of Division | 190 | ||||
REVIEW-ARTICLES | ||||||
Fredric Jameson | Science Fiction and the German Democratic Republic | 194 | ||||
Douglas Barbour | Crown's Classics of Modern Science Fiction | 200 | ||||
Robert M. Philmus | New Possibilities for Research on Science Fiction | 204 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
Cockeyed Optimist (Eric Rabkin) | 210 | |||||
Silverberg (Gary K. Wolfe) | 211 | |||||
Introducing Piers Anthony (Peter A. Brigg) | 213 | |||||
Hybrid Vigor (Brian Attebery) | 214 | |||||
Strangers to Fiction (Richard Dwyer) | 214 | |||||
A Bibliographical Survey of «Conjectural Genres» (Sophie Beauli) | 217 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
From «RVOG» to VOR: A Coded Message from James Blish (David Ketterer) | 220 | |||||
Innocence Unrewarded: A Note on E. T. and the Myth of Adolescence (Anthony Magistrale) | 223 | |||||
A Dialogue on Science Fiction Dialogues (Gary K. Wolfe & Patrick Parrinder) | 225 | |||||
A New French Journal (A) | 226 | |||||
Colloquia-ly Speaking (RMP) | 227 | |||||
Proposal for a Literature and Science Society (Lance Schacterle) | 228 | |||||
Literature and Science: A Bibliography (Walter Schatzberg) | 228 | |||||
Another SF Conference at Nice (Denise Terrel) | 228 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 231 | |||||
#34 | Volume 11 | Part 3 | November 1984 | ARTICLES | ||
Stanislaw Lem | Remarks Occasioned by Antoni Slonimski's The Torpedo of Time | 233 | ||||
Patrick A. McCarthy | Last and First Men as Miltonic Epic | 244 | ||||
Paul Brians | Nuclear War in Science Fiction, 1945-59 | 253 | ||||
Alan C. Elms | The Creation of Cordwainer Smith | 264 | ||||
David Ketterer | James Blish's Welcome to Mars and the Haertel Complex | 284 | ||||
Simonetta Salvestroni | The Ambiguous Miracle in Three Novels by the Strugatsky Brothers | 291 | ||||
Heinz Tschachler | Despotic Reason in Arcadia? Ernest Callenbach's Ecological Utopias | 304 | ||||
REVIEW-ARTICLES | ||||||
Daniel Gerould | Villiers de l'Isle Adam and Science Fiction | 318 | ||||
Herbert Sussman | Victorian Science Fiction | 324 | ||||
Donald Watson | Doomsday-And Beyond | 329 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
Science Fiction and Philosophy (John Fekete) | 335 | |||||
The Mechanical God (Patrick A. McCarthy) | 337 | |||||
Entertaining Science (CE) | 338 | |||||
Covering the Apertures (Casey Fredericks) | 339 | |||||
A Good Beginning (Susan L. Nickerson) | 340 | |||||
Female Protagonists (Linda Leith) | 341 | |||||
Pop. Lit. Crit. (Linda Leith) | 341 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
The Campbell Award (RMP) | 344 | |||||
Special Issues (RMP, MA) | 344 | |||||
A Call for Canadian Science Fiction (RMP) | 344 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 345 | |||||
Index to Volume 11 | 347 | |||||
#35 | Volume 12 | Part 1 | March 1985 | ARTICLES | ||
Stanislaw Lem | Zulawski's Silver Glove | 1 | ||||
Istvan Csicsery-Ronay | The Book is the Alien: On Certain and Uncertain Readings of Lem's Solaris | 6 | ||||
Kenneth Mathieson | The Influence of Science Fiction in the Contemporary American Novel | 22 | ||||
Robert Murray Davis | The Frontiers of Genre: Science-Fiction Westerns | 33 | ||||
Nicholas Ruddick | The World Turned Inside Out: Decoding Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama | 42 | ||||
Judith E. Boss | The Season of Becoming: Ann Maxwell's Change | 51 | ||||
Boris Eizykman | Temporality in Science-Fiction Narrative | 66 | ||||
REVIEW ARTICLES | ||||||
H. Bruce Franklin | Mark Twain and Science Fiction | 88 | ||||
David Ketterer | The Belated Discovery of Canadian Science Fiction (and Fantasy) | 91 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
Formula Fiction? (Bernard Weinstock) | 97 | |||||
Voices for the Future? (Kathleen L. Spencer) | 98 | |||||
Crossbreed Commentary (Donald M. Hassler) | 100 | |||||
A May Companion (Susan L. Nickerson) | 101 | |||||
Bibliographies of Ballard and Zelazny (Gary K. Wolfe) | 102 | |||||
Literary Descendants of C.L. Moore (Linda Leith) | 103 | |||||
Labor of Love (CE) | 104 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
Altering Invasion of the Body Snjatchers (Ellen Pedersen & Nancy Steffen-Fluhr) | 105 | |||||
Publication Notes (With a Call for Papers) | 110 | |||||
Forthcoming Conferences (With a Call for Papers) | 111 | |||||
Erratum | 111 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 112 | |||||
#36 | Volume 12 | Part 2 | July 1985 | TO 1984 AND BEYOND | ||
Editorial Introduction | 113 | |||||
Patrick Parrinder | Utopia and Meta-Utopia in H.G. Wells | 115 | ||||
Marc Angenot | The Emergence of the Anti-Utopian Genre in France: Souvestre, Giraudeau, Robida, et al | 129 | ||||
Nadia Khouri | Reaction and Nihilism: The Political Genealogy of Orwell's 1984 | 136 | ||||
Jacques Lemieux | Utopias and Social Relations in American Science Fiction, 1950-80 | 148 | ||||
Peter Fitting | So We All Became Mothers: New Roles for Men in Recent Utopian Fiction | 156 | ||||
OTHER ARTICLES | ||||||
Paul Alkon | Samuel Madden's Memoirs of the Twentieth Century | 184 | ||||
Takayuki Tatsumi | An Interview with Darko Suvin | 202 | ||||
REVIEW-ARTICLE | ||||||
Franz Rottensteiner | Recent Books on Science Fiction from Germany | 209 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
Introduction to a «Past Master» (Carmela Pinto McIntire) | 221 | |||||
Huxley as Humanist (Stephen M. Fjellman) | 222 | |||||
No News About Vonnegut (Franz Rottensteiner) | 223 | |||||
An Old World Guide to the New (David Ketterer) | 223 | |||||
Philosophers Need Something Else (William M. Schuyler, Jr) | 225 | |||||
Indexing Science-Fiction Magazines (RMP) | 225 | |||||
A Cordwainer Smith Concordance (Alan C. Elms) | 226 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
On Nils Frome and Blish, Lovecraft, et al. (Sam Moskowitz & David Ketterer) | 229 | |||||
Ruddick on Rama: An Amplification (Steven Lehman) | 237 | |||||
News from Various Quarters (RMP, Line Maurel) | 237 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 239 | |||||
#37 | Volume 12 | Part 3 | November 1985 | Joseph Francavilla | Disching It Out: An Interview with Thomas Disch | 241 |
ARTICLES | ||||||
Mark Siegel | Foreigner as Alien in Japanese Science Fantasy | 252 | ||||
Tony Williams | Female Oppression in Attack of the 50-Foot Woman | 264 | ||||
Anne Cranny-Francis | Sexuality and Sex-Role Stereotyping in Star Trek | 274 | ||||
Perry Nodelman | Out There in Children's Science Fiction: Forward into the Past | 285 | ||||
Lorenz J. Firsching | J.G. Ballard's Ambiguous Apocalypse | 297 | ||||
REVIEW-ARTICLE | ||||||
Nancy Steffen-Fluhr | Paper Tiger: Women and H.G. Wells | 311 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
Thematic Reductions (Howard Kaminsky) | 330 | |||||
Cybernetics and Science Fiction (Richard A. Schwartz) | 331 | |||||
A Narrow View of Fantasy (Gary K. Wolfe) | 334 | |||||
Arthurian Legend and Science Fiction (Richard Dwyer) | 335 | |||||
A Visual Commentary on Frankenstein (David Ketterer) | 337 | |||||
A Failure of Scholarship (Merritt Abrash) | 337 | |||||
Packaging Le Guin for the General Reader (James Bittner) | 339 | |||||
Trying the Reader's Patience (Kathleen L. Spencer) | 343 | |||||
A Guide to Farmer (Gary K. Wolfe) | 345 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
The Frome Finale (Sam Moskowitz) | 347 | |||||
Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy (John Robert Colombo) | 348 | |||||
SF in the USSR: A Call for Papers (Darko Suvin) | 349 | |||||
Upcoming Conferences (Giuseppa Battisti, George Slusser) | 350 | |||||
Miscellaneous Notes (Lance Schacterle, Line Maurel) | 350 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 351 | |||||
Index to Volume 12 | 353 | |||||
#38 | Volume 13 | Part 1 | March 1986 | ARTICLES | ||
Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. | Towards the Last Fairy Tale: On the Fairy-Tale Paradigm in the Strugatskys' Science Fiction, 1963-72 | 1 | ||||
Marleen Barr | The Females Do the Fathering: James Tiptree's Male Matriarchs and Adult Human Gametes | 42 | ||||
Stephen M. Fjellman | Prescience and Power: God Emperor of Dune and the Intellectuals | 50 | ||||
Nachman Ben-Yehuda | Sociological Reflections on the History of Science Fiction in Israel | 64 | ||||
REVIEW-ARTICLES | ||||||
Susan Gubar | Feminism and Utopia | 79 | ||||
I.F. Clarke | Dorking Revisited | 84 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
Chronic Adolescence (Linda Leith) | 87 | |||||
Science Fiction and Fantasy Film: Shadow and Substance (Andrew Gordon) | 89 | |||||
Morris as Prophet (Patrick Parrinder) | 92 | |||||
Interpretatively Sound, Theoretically Weak (Linda Leith) | 92 | |||||
A Descent into Respectability? (David Ketterer) | 94 | |||||
One Man's Canon (Veronica Hollinger) | 95 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
Italo Calvino: In Memoriam (Teresa de Lauretis) | 97 | |||||
Nils Frome in The Golden Atom (Sam Moskowitz) | 98 | |||||
Sic or No (Damon Knight, RMP, Anne Cranny-Francis, Mark Siegel) | 107 | |||||
Miscellaneous Notes | 110 | |||||
The New SFS Stylesheet | 112 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 113 | |||||
#39 | Volume 13 | Part 2 | July 1986 | NUCLEAR WAR AND SCIENCE FICTION | ||
Editorial Introduction by H. Bruce Franklin | 115 | |||||
H. Bruce Franklin | Strange Scenarios: Science Fiction, the Theory of Alienation, and the Nuclear Gods | 117 | ||||
Merritt Abrash | Through Logic to Apocalypse: Science-Fiction Scenarios of Nuclear Deterrence Breakdown | 129 | ||||
D.H. Dowling | The Atomic Scientist: Machine or Moralist? | 139 | ||||
Martha Bartter | Nuclear Holocaust as Urban Renewal | 148 | ||||
Dominic Manganiello | History as Judgment and Promise in A Canticle for Leibowitz | 159 | ||||
Daniel L. Zins | Rescuing Science from Technocracy: Cat's Cradle and the Play of Apocalypse | 170 | ||||
Thomas J. Morrissey | Zelazny: Mythmaker of Nuclear War | 182 | ||||
Paul Brians | Resources for the Study of Nuclear War in Fiction | 193 | ||||
REVIEW-ARTICLES | ||||||
Paul Brians | Dealing with Nuclear Catastrophe | 198 | ||||
John Huntington | Rethinking Wells | 200 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
Apres Nous le Deluge (I.F. Clarke) | 207 | |||||
A Field-Theory Model as Critical Strategy (CE) | 209 | |||||
The (US) Space Program: An Optimist's View (St George Tucker Arnold) | 211 | |||||
Children's Science Fiction as Retreaded Romance (Perry Nodelman) | 216 | |||||
Flotsam from the Moon Pool (Gary K. Wolfe) | 219 | |||||
Canopus in Limbo (Linda Leith) | 220 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
Theodore Sturgeon: 1918-85 (David Hartwell) | 223 | |||||
The Experimenter Bankruptcy (R.D. Mullen) | 224 | |||||
The Perils of Generalizing About Children's Science Fiction (Jill May & Perry Nodelman) | 225 | |||||
An Exchange on «Dorking Revisited» (Carlo Pagetti, I.F. Clarke) | 229 | |||||
More from Damon Knight | 230 | |||||
The Impact of Publishers' «Star» Wars? (RMP) | 231 | |||||
Calls for Papers | 232 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 233 | |||||
#40 | Volume 13 | Part 3 | November 1986 | Stanislaw Lem | ||
Editorial Introduction by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr | 235 | |||||
Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. | Twenty-Two Answers and Two Postscripts: An Interview with Stanislaw Lem | 242 | ||||
Stanislaw Lem | Metafuturology | 261 | ||||
Stanislaw Lem | On Stapledon's Last and First Men | 272 | ||||
N. Katherine Hayles | Space for Writing: Stanislaw Lem and the Dialectic «That Guides My Pen» | 292 | ||||
Robert M.. Philmus | Futurological Congress as Metageneric Text | 313 | ||||
David Field | Fluid Worlds: Lem's Solaris and Nabokov's Ada | 329 | ||||
L.A. Anninski | On Lem's The High Castle | 345 | ||||
Irina Rodnianskaia | Two Faces of Stanislaw Lem: On His Master's Voice | 352 | ||||
Jerzy Jarzębski | Stanislaw Lem's «Star Diaries» | 361 | ||||
Michael Kandel | Two Meditations on Stanislaw Lem | 374 | ||||
Stanislaw Lem | On the Genesis of Wizja Lokalna (Eyewitness Account) | 382 | ||||
REVIEW-ARTICLE | ||||||
Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. | How Not to Write a Book About Lem | 387 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
Lem's Complexity: Chance and Order (Franz Rottensteiner) | 393 | |||||
Alchemy and Science in Frankenstein (David Ketterer) | 395 | |||||
American Technological Utopianism (Herbert Sussman) | 397 | |||||
The Origin of (the) Specious (Michael D. Rose) | 398 | |||||
A Step in the Right Direction (Edgar L. Chapman) | 400 | |||||
Viewing Science Fiction from Down Under (Mark Leahy) | 402 | |||||
The Politics of Soviet Science Fiction (Charles Nicol) | 403 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
Frank Herbert, 1920-86 (Vonda N. McIntyre) | 405 | |||||
Jane's Honor and Tarzan's Chivalry Again Impugned (R.D. Mullen) | 405 | |||||
Corrigenda and Addenda (Paul Brians) | 406 | |||||
Where Did You Put Those Papers? (Forrest J. Ackerman) | 407 | |||||
Calls for Papers | 407 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 410 | |||||
#41 | Volume 14 | Part 1 | March 1987 | ARTICLES | ||
Stanislaw Lem | On Stapledon's Star Maker | 1 | ||||
Charles Nicol | Nabokov and Science Fiction: «Lance» | 9 | ||||
Patrick D. Murphy | Dialogics and Didacticism: John Brunner's Narrative Blending | 21 | ||||
Søren Baggesen | Utopian and Dystopian Pessimism: Le Guin's The Word for World is Forest and Tiptree's «We Who Stole the Dream» | 34 | ||||
Fredric Jameson | Science Fiction as a Spatial Genre: Generic Discontinuities and the Problem of Figuration in Vonda McIntyre's The Exile Waiting | 44 | ||||
Florian F. Marzin | Science Fiction and Censorship in West Germany: A Literary Genre on the Index | 60 | ||||
INTERVIEW | ||||||
Earl G. Ingersoll, ed. | A Conversation with Isaac Asimov | 68 | ||||
REVIEW-ARTICLES | ||||||
David Y. Hughes | British «Scientific Romance» | 78 | ||||
Elizabeth Maslen | Proper Words in Proper Places: The Challenge of Capek's War with the Newts | 82 | ||||
Robert Crossley | Dystopian Nights | 93 | ||||
W. Warren Wagar | The Best and Worst of Times | 99 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
The Politics of Utopia (Nadia Khouri) | 105 | |||||
Deviant But Not Marginal (Robert Galbreath) | 106 | |||||
Historic Overview (Marc Angenot) | 108 | |||||
Jack London (Nadia Khouri) | 110 | |||||
On the Other Hand (Marleen Barr) | 111 | |||||
Throwing Down the Gauntlet (Donald M. Hassler) | 115 | |||||
The «Sound of Wonder» Transcribed (Howard Fink) | 116 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
Obituaries (RMP) | 119 | |||||
Philip K. Dick in France (Peter Fitting) | 120 | |||||
Whose «Failureo f Scholarship»?( Kim Stanley Robinson) | 121 | |||||
Upcoming Conferences (With a Call for Papers) | 123 | |||||
Some Words for Our Subscribers (RMP) | 123 | |||||
Index to Volume 13 | 125 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 129 | |||||
#42 | Volume 14 | Part 2 | July 1987 | Critical Approaches to Science Fiction: Retrospects & Prospects | ||
Editorial Introduction | 131 | |||||
Samuel R. Delany | The Semiology of Silence | 134 | ||||
H.-J. Schulz | Science Fiction and Ideology: Some Problems of Approach | 165 | ||||
Carl Freedman | Science Fiction and Critical Theory | 180 | ||||
Veronica Hollinger | Deconstructing the Time Machine | 201 | ||||
Antoni Smuszkiewicz | Props and Their Function in Science Fiction | 222 | ||||
Naomi Jacobs | Person and Persona: Historical Figures in «Recombinant» Science Fiction | 230 | ||||
REVIEW-ARTICLES | ||||||
Fredric Jameson | Shifting Contexts of Science-Fiction Theory | 241 | ||||
Kathleen L. Spencer | Vintage Delany | 248 | ||||
Gary K. Wolfe | A Range of Reference Works | 252 | ||||
Carlo Pagetti | Science Fiction Criticism in Italy, In and Out of the University | 261 | ||||
David Ketterer | Androgyny vs. Bifurcation: A Psychological Reading of Frankenstein | 267 | ||||
Daniel Gerould | Alexander Bogdanov, Founder of Soviet Science Fiction | 271 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
American Science Fiction Summarily Treated (Patrick McCarthy) | 275 | |||||
Zelazny Deserves Better (Douglas Barbour) | 277 | |||||
Deviant Delights (Richard Dwyer) | 278 | |||||
Visual and Verbal Expressions of Sexuality (Kenneth E. Johnson) | 279 | |||||
A Utopian Synthesis (Sophie Beaule) | 281 | |||||
A Bibliography of the Fantastic (Mary Ellen Ross) | 283 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
Professor Kagarlitsky: An Update (Patrick Parrinder) | 285 | |||||
O'Neill Revisited (Brian Aldiss) | 285 | |||||
Scholars and Pedants (George Slusser, Merritt Abrash) | 286 | |||||
Calls for Papers | 289 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 290 | |||||
#43 | Volume 14 | Part 3 | November 1987 | Science-Fiction Film | ||
Editorial Introduction | 291 | |||||
Simonetta Salvestroni | The Science-Fiction Films of Andrei Tarkovsky | 294 | ||||
Paul Coates | Chris Marker and the Cinema as Time Machine | 307 | ||||
Peter C. Hall and Richard D. Erlich | Beyond Topeka and Thunderdome: Variations on the Comic-Romance Pattern in Recent SF Film | 316 | ||||
Thomas B. Byers | Commodity Futures: Corporate State and Personal Style in Three Recent Science-Fiction Movies | 326 | ||||
Peter Fitting | Futurecop: The Neutralization of Revolt in Blade Runner | 340 | ||||
Todd H. Sammons | Return of the Jedi: Epic Grafitti | 355 | ||||
Andrew Gordon | Back to the Future: Oedipus as Time Traveller | 372 | ||||
REVIEW-ARTICLES | ||||||
Andrew Gordon | Science-Fiction Film Criticism: The Postmodern Always Rings Twice | 386 | ||||
David Y. Hughes | Desperately Mortal | 392 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
Knowledge is Ignorance (Emanuel J. Mickel, Jr.) | 400 | |||||
Feminist Worlds Within Postmodernism (Marleen Barr) | 405 | |||||
One Out of Three (Kathleen L. Spencer) | 407 | |||||
A Model Bibliography (RMP) | 410 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
Alice Hastings Sheldon, 1915-87 (Linda Leith) | 412 | |||||
Censorship in West Germany: An Update (Rainer Eisfeld) | 413 | |||||
Index to Volume 14 | 414 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 418 | |||||
#44 | Volume 15 | Part 1 | March 1988 | ARTICLES | ||
Arthur B. Evans | Science Fiction vs. Scientific Fiction in France: From Jules Verne to J.-H. Rosny Aine | 1 | ||||
Albert I. Berger | Theories of History and Social Order in Astounding Science Fiction, 1934-55 | 12 | ||||
Donald M. Hassler | Some Asimov Resonances from the Enlightenment | 36 | ||||
Katherine Fishburn | Doris Lessing's Briefing for a Descent into Hell: Science Fiction or Psycho-Drama? | 48 | ||||
Carl R. Kropf | Douglas Adams's «Hitchhiker» Novels as Mock Science Fiction | 61 | ||||
Jean-Marc Gouanvic | Rational Speculations in French Canada, 1839-1974 | 71 | ||||
DOCUMENTS IN SF HISTORY | ||||||
John Quill. The Women's Millennium | 82 | |||||
REVIEW-ARTICLE | ||||||
Kenneth M. Roemer | Prescriptions for Readers (and Writers) of Utopias | 88 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
Handle With Care (William Butcher) | 94 | |||||
Second Chances (David Y. Hughes) | 95 | |||||
Something to Think About (Russell Letson) | 97 | |||||
Blooming Absences (Elizabeth Cummins) | 99 | |||||
Totalizing History (Veronica Hollinger) | 102 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
The Late, Great Alfie B., 1913-87 (Carolyn Wendell) | 106 | |||||
Who Was Really Moxon's Master? (Franz Rottensteiner) | 107 | |||||
The Joyce of Blish: Finnegans Wake in A Case of Conscience (Patrick A. McCarthy) | 112 | |||||
The Stapledon Bibliography: A Clarification (Harvey Satty) | 118 | |||||
Unknown Black SF Writers? (Frederick Lerner, Kathleen L. Spencer) | 118 | |||||
A Call for Papers | 119 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 120 | |||||
#45 | Volume 15 | Part 2 | July 1988 | Special Issue: Philip K. Dick | ||
Carl Freedman | Editorial Introduction: Philip K. Dick and Criticism | 121 | ||||
Roger Bozzetto | Dick in France: A Love Story | 131 | ||||
Daniel Fondaneche | Dick, the Libertarian Prophet | 141 | ||||
John Huntington | Philip K. Dick: Authenticity and Insincerity | 152 | ||||
Eric S. Rabkin | Irrational Expectations: or, How Economics and the Post-Industrial World Failed Philip K. Dick | 161 | ||||
Scott Durham | P.K. Dick: From the Death of the Subject to a Theology of Late Capitalism | 173 | ||||
George Slusser | History, Historicity, Story | 187 | ||||
John Rieder | The Metafictive World of The Man in the High Castle: Hermeneutics, Ethics, and Political Ideology | 214 | ||||
Emmanuel Jouanne | How «Dickian» is the New French Science Fiction? | 226 | ||||
Jean-Pierre Barricelli | Afterword: The Morigny Conference | 232 | ||||
REVIEW ARTICLES | ||||||
Gary K. Wolfe | Not Quite Coming to Terms | 234 | ||||
Patrick A. McCarthy | Stapledon's Microcosm of Community | 237 | ||||
I. F. Clarke | Of Men and Martians | 240 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
The Utopian Imagination (Brian Garvey) | 244 | |||||
Thematic Explorations (Sarah Pell) | 246 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
Raymond Williams, 1921-88 (Patrick Parrinder) | 250 | |||||
Anthony West (RMP) | 250 | |||||
Between Faith and Melancholy: Irony and the Gnostic Meaning of Dick's «Divine Trilogy» (Jean-Noel Dumont) | 251 | |||||
In Dispute (Norbert Spehner, Jean-Marc Gouanvic) | 254 | |||||
In Print (Carol Horner, Kent State UP) | 256 | |||||
Call for Papers | 256 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 257 | |||||
#46 | Volume 15 | Part 3 | November 1988 | ARTICLES | ||
Carl D. Malmgren | Towards a Definition of Science Fantasy | 259 | ||||
Jean Pfaelzer | The Changing of the Avant-Garde: The Feminist Utopia | 282 | ||||
Susan Stone-Blackburn | Science and Humanism in Gregory Benford's Timescape | 295 | ||||
John Fekete | The Stimulations of Simulations: Five Theses on Science Fiction and Marxism | 312 | ||||
Marc Angenot and Darko Suvin | A Response to Professor Fekete's «Five Theses» | 324 | ||||
INTERVIEW | ||||||
Larry McCaffery | On Encompassing the Entire Universe: An Interview with Gene Wolfe | 334 | ||||
DOCUMENTS IN SF HISTORY | ||||||
Raymond Williams | Science Fiction | 356 | ||||
REVIEW-ARTICLES | ||||||
David N. Samuelson | Spiking the Canons | 361 | ||||
David Lake | Undefinitive Wells | 369 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
Where's the Theory? (Kathleen L. Spencer) | 374 | |||||
A Modern Dystopia (Harry M. Geduld) | 376 | |||||
Orwell's Purposes (Philip J. Snyder) | 378 | |||||
Christian Theology in Fantasy (Robert Reilly) | 380 | |||||
Madness in their Method (Donald M. Hassler) | 381 | |||||
Not What You're Looking For (RMP) | 383 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
Robert Anson Heinlein, 1907-88 (George Slusser) | 385 | |||||
More on Moxon's Master (Everett F. Bleiler, Franz Rottensteiner) | 386 | |||||
The Upcoming Eaton Conference | 390 | |||||
For SFRA Members Only | 391 | |||||
New Publications | 391 | |||||
Index to Volume 15 | 392 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 395 | |||||
#47 | Volume 16 | Part 1 | March 1989 | ARTICLES | ||
George E. Slusser | Structures of Apprehension: Lem, Heinlein, and the Strugatskys | 1 | ||||
Rafail Nudelman | Soviet Science Fiction and the Ideology of Soviet Society | 38 | ||||
Vladimir Gakov and Paul Brians | Nuclear-War Themes in Soviet Science Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography | 67 | ||||
NOTES | ||||||
James Sexton | Aldous Huxley's Bokanovsky | 85 | ||||
S.A. Cowan | Five-Finger Exercise: Asimov's Clues to the Plot-Solution of «Catch That Rabbit» | 90 | ||||
REVIEW-ARTICLES | ||||||
Arthur B. Evans | Futures of the Past | 94 | ||||
David Y. Hughes | God, the Devil, and H.G. Wells | 103 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
World's Ends (W. Warren Wagar) | 109 | |||||
Glances into the Nuclear Abyss (Alexander H. McIntire, Jr.) | 110 | |||||
Feminist Good Places (Sarah Westphal-Wihl) | 113 | |||||
CORRESPONDENCE ET CETERA | ||||||
Another Response to John Fekete (Carl Freedman) | 116 | |||||
Moxon's Master Again: The Definitive Solution (Damon Knight) | 117 | |||||
Upcoming Conferences | 117 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 119 | |||||
#48 | Volume 16 | Part 2 | July 1989 | ARTICLES | ||
Albert I. Berger | Towards a Science of the Nuclear Mind: Science-Fiction Origins of Dianetics | 123 | ||||
Veronica Hollinger | The Vampire and the Alien: Variations on the Outsider | 145 | ||||
Francis Cromphout | From Estrangement to Commitment: Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics and T Zero | 161 | ||||
Thomas J. Morrissey | Pamela Sargent's Science Fiction for Young Adults: Celebrations of Change | 184 | ||||
John Fekete | Science Fiction in Hungary | 191 | ||||
NOTES | ||||||
James Stanford Bradshaw | The Science Fiction of Robert Barr | 201 | ||||
David Ketterer | Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: A Contextual Dystopia | 209 | ||||
REVIEW ARTICLES | ||||||
Marc Angenot | Following the Thread | 218 | ||||
Veronica Hollinger | Feminist SF: Construction and Deconstruction | 223 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
Renewing the Utopian Debate. (Thomas Moylan) | 228 | |||||
Hit-and-Miss History. (Patrick Parrinder) | 231 | |||||
Philip K. Dick is Dead. (Peter Fitting) | 233 | |||||
A Question of Genre. (Francis Cromphout) | 236 | |||||
Bellamy Bibliographied. (Kenneth M. Roemer) | 238 | |||||
A New SF Bibliography from Quebec. (Arthur B. Evans) | 240 | |||||
Purveying H.G. Wells: A Secondary Bibliography. (RMP) | 243 | |||||
CORRESPONDENCE ET CETERA | ||||||
A Survey of the Best SF in the USSR. (RMP) | 246 | |||||
More on Black Writers of SF. (Graham Stone, Kathleen L. Spencer) | 246 | |||||
Library News. (Peter Fitting, RMP) | 248 | |||||
Contributions Wanted | 249 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 250 | |||||
#49 | Volume 16 | Part 3 | November 1989 | SCIENCE FICTION IN FRANCE | ||
George Slusser | Science Fiction in France: An Introduction | 251 | ||||
Arthur B. Evans | Science Fiction in France: A Brief History | 254 | ||||
Bradford Lyau | Technocratic Anxiety in France: The Fleuve Noir «Anticipation» Novels, 1951-60 | 277 | ||||
Pascal Thomas | The Current State of Science Fiction in France | 298 | ||||
George Slusser | The Beginnings of Fiction | 307 | ||||
Arthur B. Evans | Science Fiction in France: A Selective Bibliography of Secondary Materials | 338 | ||||
REVIEW-ARTICLES | ||||||
Kenneth Berri | Jules Verne: Forward into the Past | 369 | ||||
Gary K. Wolfe | A Convention of Cats | 379 | ||||
Carl D.Malmgren | A Matter of «Boiling Roses» | 384 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
An Apology for Apocalyptic (James E. Huchingson) | 388 | |||||
Imprisoned in a Tesseract: Two Views (Desmond Tarrant and Roz Kaveney) | 390 | |||||
Pragmatic Distinctions (David Ketterer) | 397 | |||||
CORRESPONDENCE ET CETERA | ||||||
News About the Strugatskys (Yvonne Howell) | 400 | |||||
Disagreeing Over the Definitive Time Machine (Harry M. Geduld and David J. Lake) | 400 | |||||
Contributors Wanted | 404 | |||||
Index to Volume 16 | 405 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 408 | |||||
Back Issues, Volumes 8 to 12 | 409 | |||||
#50 | Volume 17 | Part 1 | March 1990 | ARTICLES | ||
Roger Bozzetto | Intercultural Interplay: Science Fiction in France and the United States (As Viewed from the French Shore) | 1 | ||||
Patrick D. Murphy | Reducing the Dystopian Distance: Pseudo-Documentary Framing in Near-Future Fiction | 25 | ||||
Glenn Grant | Transcendence Through Detournement in William Gibson's Neuromancer | 41 | ||||
Ivan Adamovic | Czech SF in the Last Forty Years | 50 | ||||
NOTES | ||||||
Selma B. Brody | The Source and Significance of Poe's Use of Azote in «Hans Pfaall» | 60 | ||||
Robert M. Philmus | Textual Authority: The Strange Case of The Island of Doctor Moreau | 64 | ||||
Patrick Parrinder | Wells's Cancelled Endings for «The Country of the Blind» | 71 | ||||
Ilan Stavans | Borges and Science Fiction | 77 | ||||
Sam Moskowitz | The First Canadian Science-Fantasy Magazine | 84 | ||||
REVIEW ARTICLES | ||||||
Fredric Jameson | Critical Agendas | 93 | ||||
Charles Elkins | Searching for the Exploding Grail | 103 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
Off Base (I.F. Clarke) | 112 | |||||
Secrets of the Pulp Canon (H. Bruce Franklin) | 115 | |||||
Dancing Gracefully But Cautiously: Ursula Le Guin's Criticism (Joan Gordon) | 117 | |||||
CORRESPONDENCE ET CETERA | ||||||
News About Marshall Tymn | 120 | |||||
Additions to and Corrections of «The Beginnings of Fiction» | .120 | |||||
Disagreeing over The Definitive Time Machine, Again | 121 | |||||
Utopian Studies | 121 | |||||
A Call for Papers on SF and Science, Short Stories Wanted | 122 | |||||
Books Received | 122 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 128 | |||||
#51 | Volume 17 | Part 2 | July 1990 | Science Fiction by Women | ||
Veronica Hollinger | Introduction: Women in Science Fiction and Other Hopeful Monsters | 129 | ||||
Robin Roberts | Post-Modernism and Feminist Science Fiction | 136 | ||||
Elizabeth Cummins | The Land-Lady's Homebirth: Revisiting Ursula K. Le Guin's Worlds | 153 | ||||
Kathleen L. Spencer | Rescuing the Female Child: The Fiction of Joanna Russ | 167 | ||||
Nancy Steffen-Fluhr | The Case of the Haploid Heart: Psychological Patterns in the Science Fiction of Alice Sheldon («James Tiptree, Jr.») | 188 | ||||
Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis | The Marriage of Inner and Outer Space in Doris Lessing's Shikasta | 221 | ||||
Hoda M. Zaki | Utopia, Dystopia, and Ideology in the Science Fiction of Octavia Butler | 239 | ||||
NOTE | ||||||
Jane Donawerth | Lilith Lorraine: Feminist Socialist Writer in the Pulps | 252 | ||||
REVIEW-ARTICLES | ||||||
Meri-Jane Rochelson | Mary Shelley's Progeny | 259 | ||||
Charles Elkins | The Uses of Science Fiction | 269 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
Sturgeon's Law (Andrew Gordon) | 273 | |||||
Rediscovering Science-Fiction Art (Gary K. Wolfe) | 276 | |||||
J. G. Ballard's «Terminal Irony» (Dennis M. McGucken) | 278 | |||||
Methodologically Questionable (Carol D. Stevens) | 280 | |||||
A Herbert Bibliography (Walter E. Meyers) | 282 | |||||
CORRESPONDENCE ET CETERA | ||||||
Critical Misconceptions (David Ketterer) | 285 | |||||
Concerning the Pilgrim Award (Walter E. Meyers, Joan Gordon) | 286 | |||||
A Feminist Forum | 287 | |||||
Upcoming Conferences and Other News of Note | 287 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 289 | |||||
#52 | Volume 17 | Part 3 | November 1990 | An Editorial Farewell (Almost) | 291 | |
On Triton and Other Matters: An Interview with Samuel R. Delany | 295 | |||||
ARTICLES | ||||||
Martha A. Bartter | The (SF) Reader and the Quantum Paradigm: Problems in Delany's Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand | 325 | ||||
H. Bruce Franklin | The Vietnam War as American SF and Fantasy | 341 | ||||
Carlo Pagetti | In the Year of Our Lord Hitler 720: Katharine Burdekin's Swastika Night | 360 | ||||
Roger Bozzetto | Kepler's Somnium; or, Science Fiction's Missing Link | 370 | ||||
NOTE | ||||||
Raimund Borgmeier | Objectives and Methods in the Analysis of SF: The Case of Science-Fiction Studies | 383 | ||||
REVIEW-ARTICLE | ||||||
Gary K. Wolfe | Writers as Critics | 392 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
News from Somewhere (Marleen Barr) | 401 | |||||
The View from Leipzig (Gary K. Wolfe) | 404 | |||||
Welcome Mats for Newcomers (R.D. Mullen) | 407 | |||||
Twenty-One Ways of Looking at a Vampire (Veronica Hollinger) | 409 | |||||
Redemptive «Symmes' Holes» of the Mind? (David Ketterer) | 411 | |||||
Still on the Level (Martha A. Bartter) | 413 | |||||
CORRESPONDENCE ET CETERA | ||||||
More (on) Revisions of «The Country of the Blind» (A. Langley Searles) | 417 | |||||
Gernsback, His Editors, and Women Writers (Eric Leif Davin, Jane Donawerth) | 418 | |||||
Books Received | 424 | |||||
Calls for Papers (George Slusser) | 422 | |||||
Miscellaneous News | 423 | |||||
Index to Volume 17 | 424 | |||||
Cumulative Index to Volumes 11 to 17 | 427 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 450 |