Science Fiction Studies

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SPECIAL SECTION: SCIENCE FICTION THROUGH H.G. WELLS

ARTICLES

• Editorial

• Robert M. Philmus. The Satiric Ambivalence of  The Island of Doctor Moreau

• David Lake. The Whiteness of Griffin and H.G. Wells's Images of Death, 1897-1914

• William J. Scheick. Toward the Ultra-SF Novel: H.G. Wells's Star Begotten

• Michael Tritt. Byron's "Darkness" and Asimov's "Nightfall"

• Manfred Nagl. National Peculiarities in German SF

• H.G. Wells. Woman and Primitive Culture

• Marc Angenot and Nadia Khouri. An International Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction

OTHER ARTICLES

• Stanislaw Lem. Metafantasia: The Possibilities of SF

• Darko Suvin. Playful Cognizing, or Technical Errors in Harmonyville: The SF of Johanna and Günter Braun

REVIEW-ESSAYS

• Aija Ozolins. Twelve Essays on Frankenstein (George Levine and U.C. Knoepflmacher, eds. The Endurance of Frankenstein: Essays on Mary Shelley's Novel)

• Franz Rottensteiner. Le Guin's Fantasy  (Ursula K. Le Guin. The Language of the Night. Essays an Fantasy and Science Fiction)

• John Fekete. Circumnavigating Ursula Le Guin (Joe De Bolt. ed. Ursula K. Le Guin: Voyager to Inner Lands and to Outer Space)

• Carlo Pagetti. Recent Italian Criticism on Utopia and SF  (Collettivo "Un'Ambigua Utopia," eds. Nei labirinti della fantascienza; Inìsero Cremaschi, ed. La collina; Vita Fortunati. La Letteratura utopica inglese; Daniela Guardamagna. Analisi dell'incubo. L'utopia negativa da Swift alla fantascienza; Rosella Mamoli Zorzi. Utopia e letteratura nell'ottocento americano; Giuseppe Petronio, ed. Letteratura di massa, Letteratura di consumo)

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Trousson's Voyages aux Pays de nulle part  (Marc Angenot)

• Furter and Rollet's Stratégies de l'Utopie  (Marc Angenot)

• Jules Verne in Rumania, Germany, France, and Quebec (Ion Hobana. Douåzeci de mii de pagini in cutarea lui Jules Verne; Thomas Ostwald. Jules Verne: Leben und Werk; Bruno-André Lahalle. Jules Verne et le Québec (1837-1889): Famille-sans-nom; Francois Raymond and Simone Vierne, eds. Jules Verne et les sciences humaines) (Marc Angenot)

• The H.G. Wells Scrapbook (Franz Rottensteiner)

• Wolfe's The Iconography of Science Fiction (David Samuelson)

• Riley's Critical Encounters (Donald Lawler)

• A Bibilography of SF and Fantasy In the Low Countries (Joe Dautzenberg)

• A Danish Review of SF Criticism (Marc Angenot)

• The Yearbook of French SF (Marc Angenot)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• A Brief Valedictory (Darko Suvin)
• The Borgo Press: Setting the Record Straight (Robert Reginald)
• News on the Italian Front (Nadia Khouri, RMP, and Carlo Pagetti)
• Florida Conference on the Fantastic (Robert Collins)

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