Science Fiction Studies

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SPECIAL SECTION ON HARD SCIENCE FICTION

Edited by David N. Samuelson

• Introduction (Full text)

• On Hard Science Fiction: A Bibliography

• Gary Westfahl. "The Closely Reasoned Technological Story'': The Critical History of Hard Science Fiction (Full text)

• John J. Pierce.The Literary Experience of Hard Science Fiction (Full text)

• Gregory Benford. Time and Timescape (Full text)

• David N. Samuelson. Modes of Extrapolation: The Formulas of Hard Science Fiction (Full text)

• On Extrapolation: A Supplementary Bibliography

OTHER ARTICLES

• Susan Stone-Blackburn. Consciousness Evolution in Early Telepathic Tales (Full text)

• Claire Sponsler. Beyond the Ruins: The Geopolitics of Urban Decay and Cybernetic Play (Full text)

REVIEW-ESSAYS

• Rob Latham. Cyberpunk = Gibson = Neuromancer: The Slusser-Shippey Anthology Fiction 2000

• Veronica Hollinger. A New Alliance of Postmodernism and Feminist Speculative Fiction: Barr's Feminist Speculation

• R.D. Mullen. From Anglo-American to Amero-British, Alas! Ruddick's British Science Fiction and Ultimate Island

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Reginald's Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature 1975-1991 (R.D. Mullen)

• Harbottle and Holland's Vultures of the Void (Nicholas Ruddick)

• The Elkins-Greenberg Anthology on Robert Silverberg (Rob Latham)

• French Conference Papers on Science and SF (Roger Bozzetto)

• Hermand's Old Dreams of a New Reich (Franz Rottensteiner)

• Shippey's Oxford Book of Science Fiction (R.D. Mullen)

• Park's An Aesthetics of the Popular Arts (R.D. Mullen)

• Manlove's Christian Fantasy (Robert Galbreath)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• The Aldiss Bibliography (Margaret Aldiss)
• "Science fiction, including utopian fiction...but not fantasy" (R.D. Mullen)
• Riverside Quarterly and Blish's Response to Butor (R.D. Mullen)
• Brazilian Fantasy and SF for Export (Jim Rambo)
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