Science Fiction Studies

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SPECIAL ISSUE: SCIENCE FICTION AND POSTMODERNISM

ARTICLE ABSTRACTS

• Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. Introduction: Postmodernism's SF/SF's Postmodernism 

• Jean Baudrillard. Two Essays: "Simulacra and Science Fiction" and "Ballard's Crash"

• In Response to Jean Baudrillard (N. Katherine Hayles, David Porush, Brooks Landon, and Vivian Sobchack) and to the Invitation to Respond (J.G. Ballard)

• Christopher Palmer. Postmodernism and the Birth of the Author in Philip K. Dick's Valis

• Scott Bukatman. Postcards from the Posthuman Solar System

• Roger Luckhurst. Border Policing: Postmodernism and SF

• David Porush. Prigogine, Chaos, and Contemporary SF

• Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. The SF of Theory: Baudrillard and Haraway

REVIEW-ESSAYS

• Roy Arthur Swanson. Postmodernist Criticism of Pynchon (Alec McHoul and David Wills. Writing Pynchon: Strategies in Fictional Analysis)

• Peter Ohlin. Science-Fiction Film Criticism and the Debris of Postmodernism (Annette Kuhn, ed. Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema; Constance Penley, Elizabeth Lyon, Lynn Spigel, & Janet Bergstrom, eds. Close Encounters: Film, Feminism, and Science Fiction)

• Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. Three Versions of Postmodernism: Hayles, McCaffery, Gane (Larry McCaffery. Across the Wounded Galaxies: Interviews with Contemporary American Science Fiction Writers; N. Katherine Hayles. Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science; Mike Gane. Baudrillard Critical and Fatal Theory)

• David Y. Hughes. H.G. Wells: Towards a Synthesis? (Patrick Parrinder & Christopher Rolfe, eds. H.G. Wells Under Revision: Proceedings of the International Wells Symposium, London, July 1986)

• Richard P. Terra. A General Framework for Familiar Concepts (Thomas J. Roberts. An Aesthetics of Junk Fiction)

• Douglas Barbour. In Search of the Poetic Fantastic (Patrick D. Murphy & Vernon Hyles, eds. The Poetic Fantastic: Studies in an Evolving Genre; Scott E. Green. Contemporary Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Poetry: A Resource Guide and Biographical Directory) (Douglas Barbour)

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Berghahn & Grimm's Utopian Vision, Technological Innovation, and Poetic Imagination (Frank Dietz)
• Cheyfitz's Politics of Imperialism (Donald M. Hassler)
• Behrendt's Approaches to Teaching Shelley's "Frankenstein" (Veronica Hollinger)
• A Critical Edition of She (R.D. Mullen)
• Starmont, Borgo, and the English Association (Nicholas Ruddick. Christopher Priest; Stephen R. Dziemianowicz. The Annotated Guide to Unknown &Unknown Worlds; Steve Behrends. Clark Ashton Smith; Raymond Z. Gallun with Dr. Jeffrey M. Elliott. Starclimber: The Literary Adventures and Autobiography of Raymond Z. Gallun; Beverly Lyon Clark. Lewis Carroll; Scott Alan Burgess. The Work of Dean Ing: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide; Tom Shippey, ed., Fictional Space: Essays on Contemporary Science Fiction) (R.D. Mullen)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• Notes (R.M. Philmus, R.D. Mullen)

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