Science Fiction Studies

#4= Volume 1, No. 4 = Fall 1974

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ARTICLES

• Stanislaw Lem. Todorov's Fantastic Theory of Literature (Full text)

• Robert M. Philmus. Wells and Borges and the Labyrinths of Time (Full text)

• Robert H. Canary. Utopian and Fantastic Dualities in Robert Graves's Watch the North Wind Rise (Full text)

• Darko Suvin. Radical Rhapsody and Romantic Recoil in the Age of Anticipation: A Chapter in the History of SF (Full text)

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Two New Books from France. (Van Herp's Panorama de la science fiction and  Sadoul's Histoire de la science fiction moderne) (Peter Fitting)

• Some German Writings on SF. (Gotthard Günther. Über windung von Raum und Zeit; Gotthard Günther. Die Entdeckung Amerikas und die Sache der amerikanischen Weltraumliteratur; Martin Schwonke. Vom Staatsroman zur Science Fiction: Eine: Untersuchung über Geschichte und Funktion der naturwissenschaftlich-technischen Utopie; Hans-Jürgen Krysmanski. Die utopische Methode: Eine literatur- und wissenssoziologische Untersuchung deutscher utopischer Romane des 20. Jahrhunderts; Amhelm Neusüss,ed. Utopie: Begriff und Phänomen des Utopischen; Jörg Hienger. Literarische Zukunftsphantastik; Vera Graaf. Homo Futurus; Michael Pehlke and Norbert Lingfeld. Roboter und Gartenlaube: Ideologie und Unterhaltung in der Science-Fiction-Literatur; Manfred Nagl. Science Fiction in Deutschland: Untersuchungen zur Genese, Soziographie und Ideologie der phantastischen Massenliteratur; Hermann Buchner. Programmiertes Glück: Sozialkritik in der utopischen Sowjetliteratur; Heinz Bingenheimer. Transgalaxis: Katalog der deutschsprachigen utopisch- phantastischen Literatur 1460-1960; Friedrich Leiner and Jürgen Gutsch, eds. Science Fiction) (Franz Rottensteiner)

• Two New Books from Germany. (Barmeyer, ed., Science Fiction: Theorie und Geschichte and  Rottensteiner, ed., Polaris 1: Ein Science Fiction Almanach) (Alice Carol Gaar)

• The Dilemma of SF Film Criticism. (John Baxter, Science Fiction in the Cinema; J.P. Bouyxou, La science fiction au cinéma;William Johnson, ed. Focus on the Science Fiction Film) (Peter Ohlin)
  

• David McLean Parry's The Scarlet Empire. (C.R. La Bossière)

• Stanton A. Coblentz's The Sunken World. (R.D. Mullen)

• The Books of Olaf Stapledon: A Chronological Survey. (Curtis C. Smith)
• E.F. Bleiler's Eight Dime Novels. (R.D. Mullen)

• 23 "Classics" of SF: The Hyperion Reprints.

(Robert Paltock. The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins. 1751; W.H. Rhodes. Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales and Sketches;  Percy Greg. Across the Zodiac;  George Griffith. The Angel of the Revolution: A Tale of the Coming Terror & Olga Romanoff: or The Syren of the Skies; Gustavus W. Pope, M.D. Journey to Mars. The Wonderful World: Its Beauty and Splendor: Its Mighty Races and Kingdoms: Its Final Doom;   L. Frank Baum. The Master Key: An Electrical Fairy Tale founded on the Mysteries of Electricity and the optimism of its devotees. It was written for boys, but others may read it; Robert W. Chambers. In Search of the Unknown; Gabriel de Tarde. Underground Man; William Wallace Cook. A Round Trip to the Year 2000; Garrett P. Serviss. A Columbus of Space & The Second Deluge; George Allan England. Darkness and Dawn;  Victor Rousseau. The Messiah of the Cylinder;  Milo Hastings. City of Endless Night; Harold Lamb. Marching Sands; Ray Cummings. The Girl in the Golden Atom; A. Merritt. The Metal Monster; Karel Capek. The Absolute at Large. Philip Wylie. Gladiator; Stanley G. Weinbaum. A Martian Odyssey and Other Science Fiction Tales: The Collected Short Stories of Stanley G. Weinbaum; Olaf Stapledon. Darkness and the Light). (R.D. Mullen)

• Donald H. Tuck's Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. (R.D. Mullen)

• Joe R. Christopher and Joan K. Ostling. C.S. Lewis: An Annotated Checklist of Writings about him and his Works. (R.D. Mullen)

• More Special Issues on Utopias (Darko Suvin)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• Change, SF, and Marxism: Open or Closed Universes?
  • Mack Reynolds. What Do You Mean-- Marxism?
  • Franz Rottensteiner. In Rebuttal
  • Fredric Jameson. In Retrospect
• Arthur C. Clarke and All Those Awards (R.D. Mullen)
• SF Criticism in Romania (Darko Suvin)
• A Response to Damon Knight (Franz Rottensteiner)
• Wells, Verne, and Science (Alex Eisenstein)
• In Response to Mr. Eisenstein (Darko Suvin)
• Four Complaints (Joanna Russ)
• In Response to Ms. Russ (R.D. Mullen)

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