Science Fiction Studies

#28 = Volume 9, Part 3 = November 1982

SPECIAL ISSUE: THE SCIENCE FICTION OF OLAF STAPLEDON

• Patrick McCarthy. Editorial Introduction

• Eric Rabkin. The Composite Fiction of Olaf Stapledon

• Robert Branham. Stapledon's "Agnostic Mysticism"

• John Huntington. Remembrance of Things to Come: Narrative Technique in Last and First Men

• Curtis C. Smith. The Manuscript of Last and First Men: Towards a Variorum

• Amelia A. Rutledge. Star Maker: The Agnostic Quest

• Roy Arthur Swanson. The Spiritual Factor in Odd John and Sirius

• Robert Crossley. Politics and the Artist: The Aesthetic of Darkness and the Light

• Robert Casillo. Olaf Stapledon and John Ruskin

REVIEW-ESSAYS  

• Fredric Jameson. Towards a New Awareness of Genre (Patrick Parrinder. Science Fiction: Its Criticism and Teaching; Patrick Parrinder ed. Science Fiction: A Critical Guide)

• Charles Elkins. A Utopian Project (Kenneth Roemer, ed. America as Utopia)

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Brooke-Rose's Rhetoric of the Unreal (Gary K. Wolfe)

• Punter's The Literature of Terror (Gisela Casines)

• Slusser and Rabkin's Bridges to Science Fiction (David N. Samuelson)

• Fiedler and Mele's Isaac Asimov (Michael Tritt)

• Diskin's Theodore Sturgeon; Menger's Theodore Sturgeon (Donald M. Hassler)

• Williamson's Teaching Science Fiction: Education for Tomorrow (C. Bruce Hunter)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• Oedipus as Time Traveller (David Ketterer)
• Death and the Textual Shadow of the SF Author, Again (Gregory Benford and David Ketterer)
• The Angenot-Khouri Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction: Additions, Corrections, and Comment (Gordon A. Chamberlain)
• SF at the MLA Convention
• Images of the Inner and Outer Space: A Conference at Nice
• SF and the Construction of Reality: A Call for Papers
• Fantasy and Horror, Aesthetics and Theory: A Call for Papers

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