Science Fiction Studies

THE SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE FICTION

• Darko Suvin Introduction.

• Charles Elkins. An Approach to the Social Functions of American Science Fiction.

• Albert I. Berger. SF Fans in Socio-Economic Perspective: Factors in the Social Consciousness of a Genre.

• A.E. Levin. English-Language Science Fiction as a Socio-Cultural Phenomenon.

• Dieter Hasselblatt. Reflections from West Germany on the Science-Fiction Market.

• Linda Fleming. The American SF Sub-Culture.

• Rudolf Stefen. Violence in Science Fiction, and Censorship in West Germany.

• Bernt Kling. On Science-Fiction Comics.

• Wolfgang Jeschke. SF: A Publisher's View.

• Gérard Klein. Le Guin's "Aberrant" Opus: Escaping the Trap of Discontent.

• Marc Angenot. A Select Bibliography of the Sociology of Literature.

DOCUMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION

• An 1873 Review of Maitland's By and By

• An 1880 Review of Greg's Across the Zodiac

BOOKS IN REVIEW (R.D. Mullen)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• On the Lem Affair (James Gunn)
• On Lem on Cosmology and SF (Gregory Benford)
• On Barbour on Le Guin (Richard D. Erlich)
• A Note in Correction
• The Meaning of the Loch Ness Monster (Darko Suvin)
• Turner, Gillespie, Lem, et al. on Silverberg (R.D. Mullen)