Science Fiction Studies

#53 = Volume 18, Part 1 = March 1991

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INTERVIEW

• Vladimir Gopman. Science Fiction Teaches the Civic Virtues: An Interview with Arkadii Strugatsky

ARTICLES

• Cristina Sedgewick. The Fork in the Road: Can Science Fiction Survive in Postmodern, Megacorporate America?

• W. Warren Wagar. J.G. Ballard and the Transvaluation of Utopia

• David A. Layton. The Barriers of Inner and Outer Space: The Science Fiction of Barry N. Malzberg

• Robert M. Philmus. The Two Faces of Philip K Dick

REVIEW-ARTICLES

• Carl Freedman. In Search of Dick's Boswell (Paul Williams. Only Apparently Real: The World of Philip K. Dick; Gregg Rickman. To the High Castle--Philip K. Dick: A Life, 1928-1962; Daniel J.H. Levack. PKD: A Philip K. Dick Bibliography)

• George Slusser. Le Guin and the Future of SF Criticism (Bernard Selinger. Le Guin and Identity in Contemporary Fiction; Elizabeth Cummins. Understanding Ursula K. Le Guin)

• De Witt Douglas Kilgore. The Blue-and-Not-Yellow Sun (Darko Suvin. Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction)

• Robert M. Philmus. English-Language Science Fiction Via Italy (Rudyard J. Kipling. Nel Mondo di ABC... ; Edward Everett Hale. La Luna di Mattoni; William Morris. La Terra Cava e altri racconti.)

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Stover's Harry Harrison (Gary K. Wolfe)

• Sargent's Bibliography of Utopian Literature (Kenneth M. Roemer)

• Bartter's The Way to Ground Zero (Alexander H. McIntire, Jr)

• Widmer's Counterings (Lyman Tower Sargent)

• The Collins/Latham Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review Annual 1988 (Robert M. Philmus)

• Pierce's Three-Volume Imagination and Evolution (Mark R Hillegas)

• IAFA Seven and Eight (Arthur B. Evans)

• Lebailly's La Science Fiction avant la SF: Anthologie de l'imaginaire scientifique française du Romantisme à la Pataphysique (Arthur B. Evans)

• Cannaday's Bigger Than Life: The Creator of Doc Savage (Thomas D. Clareson)

• Joshi's The Weird Tale (R.D. Mullen)

• Kroeber's Romantic Fantasy and Science Fiction (R.D. Mullen)

• Fousts's Merritt (R.D. Mullen)

• Touponce's Ray Bradbury and Indick's Ray Bradbury: Dramatist (R.D. Mullen)

• Caracciolo's The Arabian Nights In English Literature (Everett F. Bleiler)

• A Series of Exhaustive Bibliographies (Boden Clarke, ed. Bibliographies of Modern Authors ##1-25) (R.D. Mullen)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE 

• Atwood's Ph.D. Thesis and The Handmaid's Tale (Shannon Hengen)
• On Kepler's Somnium (David Lake and R.M. Philmus)
• Some Personal Notes in Retrospect and Prospect (R.D. Mullen)

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