Science Fiction Studies

#76 = Volume 25, Part 3 = November 1998

IN MEMORIAM

Richard Dale Mullen, 1915-1998

ARTICLE ABSTRACTS

Sylvie Romanowski. Cyrano de Bergerac's Epistemological Bodies: "Pregnant with a Thousand Definitions"

Donald Palumbo. The Monomyth as Fractal Pattern in Frank Herbert's DUNE Novels

Ross Farnell. Posthuman Topologies: William Gibson's "Architexture" in Virtual Light and Idoru

Dominick M. Grace. The Handmaid's Tale: "Historical Notes" and Documentary Subversion

Steffen Hantke. Surgical Strikes and Prosthetic Warriors: The Soldier's Body in Contemporary Science Fiction

REVIEW-ESSAYS

Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. The Cyborg and the Kitchen Sink; or, The Salvation Story of No Salvation Story (Donna Haraway, Modest_Witness@Second Millenium. FemaleMan©_Meets_OncoMouse™)

W. Warren Wagar. Letters from Our Father (H.G. Wells, The Correspondence of H.G. Wells

BOOKS IN REVIEW

Dean's Aliens in America: Conspiracy Cultures from Outerspace to Cyberspace

Penley's NASA/TREK: Popular Science and Sex in America

Gray's The Cyborg Handbook

Bernardi's Star Trek and Hitsory: Race-ing Toward a White Future

Swirski's Stanislaw Lem Reader

Brennan's The Gothic Psyche: Disintergation and Growth in Nineteenth-Century English Literature

Flieger's A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Road to Faerie

The Cooke/Slusser/Marti-Olivella anthology The Fantastic Other

Traill's Possible Worlds of the Fantastic: The Rise of the Paranormal in Literature

The Westfahl/Slusser/Rabkin anthology Foods of the Gods:Eating and the Eaten in Fantasy and Science Fiction

Brief Notices ( Madelyn Jablon, Black Metafiction: Self-Consciousness in African-American Literature; Mikita Brottman, Offensive Films: Toward and Anthropology of "Cinéma Vomitif"; Joseph Pearce, Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G. K. Chesterton (Rob Latham)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

More Percy Shelley Words in Frankenstein? (David Ketterer)

I.F. Clarke and the Pioneer Award (Carol McGuirk)

Calls for Papers (Carol McGuirk)

Sf in Catalan (Carol McGuirk)

SFS News (Carol McGuirk)

Notes on Contributors

Index for Volume 25

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