Science Fiction Studies

#39 = Volume 13, Part 2 = July 1986

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NUCLEAR WAR AND SCIENCE FICTION

• H. Bruce Franklin Editorial Introduction  

• H. Bruce Franklin. Strange Scenarios: Science Fiction, the Theory of Alienation, and the Nuclear Gods

• Merritt Abrash. Through Logic to Apocalypse: Science-Fiction Scenarios of Nuclear Deterrence Breakdown

• D.H. Dowling. The Atomic Scientist: Machine or Moralist?

• Martha Bartter. Nuclear Holocaust as Urban Renewal

• Dominic Manganiello. History as Judgment and Promise in A Canticle for Leibowitz

• Daniel L. Zins. Rescuing Science from Technocracy: Cat's Cradle and the Play of Apocalypse

• Thomas J. Morrissey. Zelazny: Mythmaker of Nuclear War

• Paul Brians. Resources for the Study of Nuclear War in Fiction

REVIEW-ESSAYS

• Paul Brians. Dealing with Nuclear Catastrophe (H. Bruce Franklin, ed. Countdown to Midnight: Twelve Great Stories About Nuclear War: Walter M. Miller, Jr, ed. Beyond Armageddon: Twenty-One Sermons to the Dead)

• John Huntington. Rethinking Wells (John Batchelor. H.G. Wells; J.R. Hammond, ed. The Man with a Nose and the Other Uncollected Short Stories of H.G. Wells; William J. Scheick. The Splintering Frame: The Later Fiction of H.G. Wells)

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Newman and Unsworth's Future War Novels (I.F. Clarke)

• Hayles's Cosmic Web (Charles Elkins)

• Weber's Seeing Earth (St George Tucker Arnold)

• Antczak's Science Fiction: The Mythos of a New Romance (Perry Nodelman)

• Moskowitz's A. Merritt (Gary K. Wolfe)

• Knapp's Lessing (Linda Leith)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE 

• Theodore Sturgeon: 1918-85 (David Hartwell)
• The Experimenter Bankruptcy (R.D. Mullen)
• The Perils of Generalizing About Children's Science Fiction (Jill May & Perry Nodelman)
• An Exchange on "Dorking Revisited" (Carlo Pagetti, I.F. Clarke)
• More from Damon Knight
• The Impact of Publishers' "Star" Wars? (R.M. Philmus)

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