Science Fiction Studies

#91 = Volume 30, Part 3 = November 2003

SPECIAL ISSUE: THE BRITISH SF BOOM

Edited by Mark Bould, Andrew M. Butler, and Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.

INTERVIEW

• Joan Gordon. Reveling in Genre: An Interview with China Miéville

ARTICLES

• Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. Editorial Introduction

• Andrew M. Butler. Thirteen Ways of Looking at the British Boom

• Mark Bould. What Kind of Monster Are You?, Situating the Boom

• Roger Luckhurst. Cultural Governance, New Labor, and the British SF Boom

• Matt Hills. Counterfictions in the Work of Kim Newman:  Rewriting Gothic SF as “Alternate-Story Stories”

• Joan Gordon. Hybridity, Heterotopia, and Mateship in China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station

• Stephen Baxter. Baby Boomers: Writers and their Origins

• Mark Bould and Andrew M. Butler, eds. Voices on the Boom

• Andrew M. Butler. Towards a Reading List of the British Boom

REVIEW ESSAYS

• Aaron Parrett. Alternative Worlds: Burroughs’s Pellucidar, Hyne’s The Lost Continent, and Wells’s The War in the Air

• Ruth Berman. The Wizardry of Oz: Rogers’s L. Frank Baum,  Hearn’s The Annotated Wizard of Oz, Dighe’s The Historian’s Wizard of Oz, and Swartz’s Oz Before the Rainbow

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Brigg’s The Span of Mainstream and Science Fiction (Neal Easterbrook)

• Dick’s The Man Who Japed, The Zap Gun, and Counter-Clock World (Aaron Parrett)

• Hintz/Ostry’s Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults (Farah Mendlesohn)

• Mackay’s The Yellow Wave (Russell Blackford)

• Molina-Gavilán’s Ciencia Ficción En Español (Pedro Jorge Romero)

• Rosenberg/Hixon/Scapple/White’s Diana Wynne Jones (Maureen Kincaid Speller)

• Secrest’s The Fiction of Walter M. Miller, Jr. (David N. Samuelson)

• Schakel’s Imagination and the Arts in C.S. Lewis (Georgina Kennedy)

• Smith’s H.G. Wells on Film (Michael J. Anzelone)

• Straub’s Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists (JG)

• Warner’s Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds (Sandra Lindow)

• Westfahl/Slusser/Leiby’s Explorations of Time in Science Fiction and Fantasy (Joe Haldeman)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• SF Intertextuality: Bunyan, Baum, and Burroughs (CM)
• Request for SF Materials (Alexandre Ramos Mastrella)
• Clarion Funding Cut at MSU (Michael Levy)
• Mervyn Peake News (G. Peter Winnington)
• Heinlein’s First Novel Surfaces (CM)
• ICFA 2004 (Christine Mains)
• Mythic Imagination Newsletter and Conference (John Adcox)
• Call for Papers on Commonwealth SF (Andrew M. Butler)
• Sunburst Award Shortlist (CM)
• Tomb of Gilgamesh Discovered? (Hal Hall)