Science Fiction Studies

# 17 = Volume 6, Part 1 = March 1979

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Editorial (Angenot, Elkins, Philmus, Suvin)

ARTICLES

• Marc Angenot. The Absent Paradigm: An Introduction to the Semiotics of Science Fiction(Full text)

• Charles Elkins. Science Fiction versus Futurology: Dramatic versus Rational Models (Full text)

• Darko Suvin. The State of the Art in Science Fiction Theory: Determining and Delimiting the Genre (Full text)

• Patrick Parrinder. The Alien Encounter: Or, Ms. Brown and Mrs. Le Guin (Full text)

• Peter Fitting. The Modern Anglo-American SF Novel: Utopian Longing and Capitalist Cooptation (Full text)

• David J. Lake. The White Sphinx and the Whitened Lemur: Images of Death in The Time Machine (Full text)

• Antoni Smuszkiewicz. Space and Time in Contemporary Polish SF (Full text)

• Horst Heidtmann. A Survey of SF in the German Democratic Republic (Full text)

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Cro’s Sinapia: Classical Utopia of Spain (Sylvia Wynter)

• Locus: The Newspaper of the Science Fiction Field (Darko Suvin)

• An Unnecessary Reprint: Girsberger's Der utopsiche Sozialismus des 18. Jahrhunderts in Frankreich  (Darko Suvin)

• The CEA Critic [Special Issue]:Fantasy (Charles Elkins)

• Stover’s La Science-fiction américaine (Peter Fitting)

• Klein’s Malaise dans la science-fiction (Nadia Khouri)

• Russo’s Vent'anni di fantascienza in Italia (Marc Angenot)

• Goodman on William S. Burroughs (Irena Zantovskà-Murray)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• The International SF Conference in Palermo: A Report (Nadia Khouri)
• Was SF Alive and Well Under Nazism?: An Exchange (Edward J.Tabler, William B. Fischer)
• On Ursula Le Guin (Gérard Klein)
• Frankenstein’s Monster (Patrick Parrinder)
• On Klein’s Comments on Ursula Le Guin (Joanna Russ)
• Gleaned from Other Sources (Darko Suvin)

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