Science Fiction Studies

#40 = Volume 13, Part 3 = November 1986

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SPECIAL ISSUE ON STANISLAW LEM  

INTERVIEW

• Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. Twenty-Two Answers and Two Postscripts: An Interview with Stanislaw Lem

ARTICLES

• Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. Editorial Introduction  

• Stanislaw Lem. Metafuturology

• Stanislaw Lem. On Stapledon's Last and First Men

• N. Katherine Hayles. Space for Writing: Stanislaw Lem and the Dialectic "That Guides My Pen"

• Robert M. Philmus. Futurological Congress as Metageneric Text

• David Field. Fluid Worlds: Lem's Solaris and Nabokov's Ada

• L.A. Anninski. On Lem's The High Castle

• Irina Rodnianskaia. Two Faces of Stanislaw Lem: On His Master's Voice
  

• Jerzy Jarzebski. Stanislaw Lem's STAR DIARIES

• Michael Kandel. Two Meditations on Stanislaw Lem

• Stanislaw Lem. On the Genesis of Wizja Lokalna (Eyewitness Account)

REVIEW-ESSAY

• Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. How Not to Write a Book About Lem (Richard E. Ziegfeld. Stanislaw Lem)

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Lem's Complexity: Jarzebski's Zufall und Ordnung (Franz Rottensteiner)

• Vasbinder's Scientific Attitudes in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (David Ketterer)

• Segal's Technological Utopianism in American Culture (Herbert Sussman)

• Parker's Biological Themes in Modern Science Fiction (Michael D. Rose)

• Arbur's Marion Zimmer Bradley (Edgar L. Chapman)

• Jenny Blackford, Norman Talbot, et al., eds. Contrary Modes: Proceedings of the World Science Fiction Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 1985 (Mark Leahy)

• McGuire's Red Stars: Political Aspects of Soviet Science Fiction (Charles Nicol)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• Frank Herbert, 1920-86 (Vonda N. McIntyre)
• Jane's Honor and Tarzan's Chivalry Again Impugned (R.D. Mullen)
• Corrigenda and Addenda (Paul Brians)
• Where Did You Put Those Papers? (Forrest J Ackerman)

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