Science Fiction Studies

#31 = Volume 10, Part 3 = November 1983

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SPECIAL SECTION: EXTRALITERARY FORMS OF SCIENCE FICTION

• Editorial Introduction

• Manfred Nagl. The Science-Fiction Film in Historical Perspective
• I.E. Svilpis. Science-Fiction Magazine Illustration: A Semiotic Analysis

• Karin Blair. Sex and Star Trek

• Andrew Gordon. E.T. as Fairy Tale

OTHER ARTICLES

• Victoria Myers. Conversational Technique in Ursula Le Guin: A Speech-Act Analysis

• Stanislaw Lem. About the Strugatskys' Roadside Picnic

REVIEW-ESSAYS

• Dagmar Barnouw. "Melancholy Here Now": Artificial and Alien Intelligence (John Haugeland, ed. Mind Design. Philosophy, Psychology and Artificial Intelligence; Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett, eds. The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul)

• Daniel Gerould. On Soviet Science Fiction (Jacqueline Lahana. Les mondes parallèles de la science-fiction soviétique; Leonid Heller. De la science-fiction soviétique: par dela le dogme, un univers)

• Marc Angenot. Utopia as State Novel (Pierre-François Moreau. Le Récit utopique, droit natural et roman de l'état)

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Aldiss' This World and Nearer Ones (Casey Fredericks)

• Hassler's Comic Tones in Science Fiction (David N. Samuelson)

• Greenland's Entropy Exhibition (Kathleen L. Spencer)

• Cogell's Le Guin Bibliography (James W. Bittner)

• Five from the Borgo Press (Science Fiction Voices 4: Interviews with Science Fiction Writers. Conducted by Jeffrey M. Elliot; Science Fiction Voices 5: Interviews with Science Fiction Writers. Conducted by Darrell Schweitzer; Brian M. Stableford. Masters of Science Fiction: Essays on Six Science Fiction Authors; The Future of the Space Program. Large Corporations and Society: Discussions with 22 Science-Fiction Writers. Conducted by Jeffrey M. Elliot and David Mogen, Wilderness Visions. Science Fiction Westerns, Vol. 1) (Peter Fitting)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• A Memorial to Robert Plank (Franz Rottensteiner)
• A Plea for the Interdisciplinary (L.B. Cebik)
• Conferences on Orwell
• Call for Papers on "The Post-Catastrophe Theme"

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