Science Fiction Studies

#81 = Volume 27, Part 2 = July 2000

ARTICLES

• David A. Kirby. The New Eugenics in Cinema: Genetic Determinism and Gene Therapy in GATTACA(Full text)

• Kenneth Krabbenhoft. Uses of Madness in Cervantes and Philip K. Dick (Full text)

• Amanda Fernbach. The Fetishization of Masculinity in Science Fiction: The Cyborg and the Console Cowboy (Full text)

• De Witt Douglas Kilgore. Changing Regimes: Vonda N. McIntyre's Parodic Astrofuturism(Full text)

REVIEW-ESSAYS

• Carl Freedman. Science Fiction and the Triumph of Feminism 

• Brooks Landon. Pomo's Technological Sublime  (David E. Nye, Narratives and Spaces: Technology and the Construction of American Culture and Mark Dery, The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture of the Brink of the Millenium)

• David Ketterer. Spin-Doctoring the "Testesical" Apocalypse: Grappling with the Millenium  (John Clute, The Book of End Times)

• Carol Margaret Davison. A Gothic Bonanza 

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Everett Bleiler (with Richard J. Bleiler). Science Fiction: The Gernsback Years (David Pringle)
  

• Frank M. Robinson. Science Fiction of the 20th Century: An Illustrated History (Rob Latham)

• Brian Stableford. The Dictionary of Science Fiction Places (Rob Latham)

• Joseph D. Andriano. Immortal Monster: The Mythological Evolution of the Fantastic Beast in Modern Fiction and Film (Gary K. Wolfe)

• Charles A. Carpenter. Dramatists and the Bomb: American and Britich Playwrights Confront the Nuclear Age, 1945-1964 (Paul Brians)

• Richard Saint-Gelais. L'Empire du pseudo: modernités de la science-fiction (Roger Bozzetto)

• Fred Botting. Sex, Machines and Navels: Fiction, Fantasy and History in the Future Present (Neil Badmington)

• Colin Manlove. The Fantasy Literature of England (Brian Attebery)

• Elmar Schenkel and Stefan Welz, eds. Lost Worlds and Mad Elephants: Litreature, Science and Technology, 1700-1990 (Patrick A. McCarthy)

• Sherrie A. Inness. Tough Girls: Women Warriors and Wonder Women in Popular Culture (Robin Reid)

• Lisa Maria Hogeland. Feminism and Its Fictions: The Consciousness- Raising Novel and the Women's Liberation Movement (Robin Reid)

• Jeanne Cortiel. Demand My Writing: Joanna Russ/Feminism/Science Fiction (Jane Donawerth)

• Joanna Russ. What Are We Fighting For?: Sex, Race, Class, and the Future of Feminism (Jane Donawerth)

• Jennifer DeVere Brody. Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture (Kelly Searsmith)

• Brian W. Aldiss. The Twinkling of an Eye: Or, My Life as an Englishman (Robert A. Collins)

• Edgar L. Chapman. The Road to Castle Mount: The Science Fiction of Robert Silverberg (Rob Latham)

• Gary Westfahl and George Slusser, eds. Nursery Realms: Children in the Worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (Gregory Beatty)

• Camille Paglia. The Birds (Rob Latham)

• Iain Sinclair. Crash: David Cronenberg's Post-mortem on J.G. Ballard's "Trajectory of Fate" (Rob Latham)

• Jack H. Stocker, ed. Chemistry and Science Fiction (Michael M. Levy)

• Charles Sheffield. Borderlands of Science (Michael M. Levy)

• William E. Burrows. This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age (Doris Witt)

• Howard E. McMurdy. Space and the American Imagination (Doris Witt)

• Arthur C. Clarke. Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: Collected Essays (Gregory Benford)

• Keay Davidson. Carl Sagan: A Life (Gregory Benford)

• William Poundstone. Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos (Gregory Benford)

• Michael Swanwick. The Postmodern Archipelago (Rob Latham)

• Samuel R. Delany. Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (Carl Freedman)

• Samuel R. Delany. Bread & Wine: An Erotic Tale of New York (Carl Freedman)

• Donna R. White. Dancing with Dragons: Ursula K. Le Guin and the Critics (Charles Nicol)

• Jo Elwyn Jones and J. Francis Gladstone. The ALICE Companion: A Guide to Lewis Carroll's ALICE Books (Carol McGuirk)

• Martha C. Nussbaum and Cass R. Sunstein, eds. Clones and Clones: Facts and Fantasies About Human Cloning (Veronica Hollinger)

• Glennis Byron, ed. New Casebooks: DRACULA (by Bram Stoker) (Rob Latham)

• Clive Leatherdale, ed. Bram Stoker's DRACULA Unearthed (Rob Latham)

• Bram Stoker. Dracula: or The Un-Dead: A Play in Prologue and Five Acts, ed. Sylvia Starshine (Rob Latham)

• David Seed, ed. Imagining Apocalypse: Studies in Cultural Crisis (Paul Brians)

• Gregory Claeys, ed. Modern British Utopias 1700-1850, 8 vols. (Arthur B. Evans)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• Dating H.G. Wells (David Y. Hughes, with Robert M. Philmus)
• News from France (Roger Bozzetto)
• Darko Suvin on Fascism, and Response (Darko Suvin, Donald M. Hassler)
• On Global SF (C.W. Sullivan III)
• SF and Fantasy M.A. Track at FAU (William A. Covino)
• SF Conference in Greece (Domna Pastourmatzi)
• New Journal: Winedark Sea
• Calls for Papers
• Notes on Contributors

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