Science Fiction Studies

#42 = Volume 14, Part 2 = July 1987

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CRITICAL APPROACHES TO SCIENCE FICTION: RETROSPECTS & PROSPECTS

ARTICLES

• Editorial Introduction

• H. J. Schulz. Science Fiction and Ideology: Some Problems of Approach

• Carl Freedman. Science Fiction and Critical Theory

• Veronica Hollinger. Deconstructing The Time Machine

• Antoni Smuszkiewicz. Props and Their Function in Science Fiction

• Naomi Jacobs. Person and Persona: Historical Figures in "Recombinant'' Science Fiction

INTERVIEW

• Samuel R. Delany. The Semiology of Silence

REVIEW-ESSAYS

• Fredric Jameson. Shifting Contexts of Science-Fiction Theory (Luk De Vos, ed. Just the Other Day: Essays on the Suture of the Future; George E. Slusser & Eric S. Rabkin, eds. Hard Science Fiction; Wolfgang Kasack, ed. Science-Fiction in Osteuropa)

• Kathleen L. Spencer. Vintage Delany (Samuel R. Delany. Starboard Wine: More Notes on the Language of Science Fiction)

• Gary K. Wolfe. A Range of Reference Works (Marshall B. Tymn & Mike Ashley, eds. Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines; Michael L. Cook. Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines; William Contento. Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections, 1977-1983; H.W. Hall, ed. Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review Index, 1980-1984; Tim Cottrill, Martin H. Greenberg, & Charles Waugh. Science Fiction and Fantasy Series and Sequels: A Bibliography. Volume 1: Books)

• Carlo Pagetti. Science Fiction Criticism in Italy, In and Out of the University

• David Ketterer. Androgyny vs. Bifurcation: A Psychological Reading of Frankenstein (William Veeder. Mary Shelley & Frankenstein: The Fate of Androgyny)

• Daniel Gerould. Alexander Bogdanov, Founder of Soviet Science Fiction (Alexander Bogdanov. Red Star: The First Bolshevik Utopia)

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• American Science Fiction Summarily Treated (Thomas D. Clareson. Some Kind of Paradise: The Emergence of American Science Fiction and Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary Sources) (Patrick McCarthy)

• Krulik's Zelazny (Douglas Barbour)

• Bainbridge's Dimensions of Science Fiction (Richard Dwyer)

• Palumbo's Erotic Universe: Sexuality and Fantastic Literature and Eros in the Mind's Eye: Sexuality and the Fantastic in Art and Film   (Kenneth E. Johnson)

• A Utopian Synthesis: L'utopie aujourd'hui(Sophie BeaulÉ)

• Spehner's Écrits sur le fantastique: bibliographie analytique des Études & essais sur le fantastique publiÉs entre 1900 et 1985 (littÉrature/cinÉma/art fantastique) (Mary Ellen Ross)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• Professor Kagarlitsky: An Update (Patrick Parrinder)
• O'Neill Revisited (Brian Aldiss)
• Scholars and Pedants (George Slusser, Merritt Abrash)

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