Science-fiction Studies, 2nd Series - Selected Articles on Science Fiction 1976-77

Science-fiction Studies, 2nd Series - Selected Articles on Science Fiction 1976-77

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Published: 1976

Pages: 349

Rating: 3

Language: en

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Introduction by Marc Angenot
Notes on Contributors by uncredited
Lucian's True History as SF by S. C. Fredericks
Iambulus' Islands of the Sun and Hellenistic Literary Utopias by David Winston
The True, the False, and the Truly False: Lucian's Philosophical Science Fiction by Roy Arthur Swanson
The Alternate Islands: A Chapter in the History of SF, with a Select Bibliography of the SF of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance by Darko Suvin
The Reading and Writing of Utopia in Denis Diderot's Supplement au voyage de Bougainville by Christie V. McDonald
German Theories of Science Fiction: Jean Paul, Kurd Lasswitz, and After by Wm B. Fischer
Wells in Three Volumes? A sketch of British Publishing in the 19th Century by George Locke
News from Nowhere, The Time Machine and the Break-up of Classical Realism by Patrick Parrinder
The Time Machine and the End of Man by Alex Eisenstein
Utopia and Epic: Ideological Confrontation in Jack London's The Iron Heel by Nadia Khouri
Science Fiction and Allied Literature by David Ketterer
Mythic Structure in Cordwainer Smith's "The Game of Rat and Dragon" by Gary K. Wolfe
Invisible Men and Women: The Disappearance of Character in Science Fiction by Scott Russell Sanders [as by Scott Sanders ]
The Lost Canticles of Walter M. Miller Jr by David M. Samuelson
Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" Novels: Historical Materialism Distorted into Cyclical Psycho-History by Charles Elkins
Ursula K. Le Guin and the Decline of Romantic Love by Robert Plank
A Response to the Le Guin Issue by Ursula K. Le Guin
From Technique to Critique: Knowledge and Human Interests in John Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar, The Jagged Orbit, and The Sheep Look Up by Michael Stern
The Future History and Development of the English Language by Walter E. Meyers
The Triumph of Prophecy: Science Fiction and Nuclear Power in the Post-Hiroshima Period by Albert I. Berger
J.G. Ballard and the Limits of Mainstream SF by Charles Nicol
The Surreal Translations of Samuel R. Delany by Peter S. Alterman
Cosmology and Science Fiction by Stanisław Lem
Stanislaw Lem, Rationalist and Visionary by Jerzy Jarzębski
Lem in Review (June 2238) by Michael Kandel V.
Introduction: The Sociology of Science Fiction by Darko Suvin
Discontent in American Science Fiction by Gérard Klein
An Approach to the Social Functions of American SF by Charles Elkins
Science-Fiction Fans in Socio-Economic Perspective: Factors in the Social Consciousness of a Genre by Albert I. Berger
English-Language SF as a Socio-Cultural Phenomenom by A.E. Levin
Reflections from West Germany on the Science-Fiction Market by Dieter Hasselblatt
The American SF Subculture by Linda Fleming
Violence in SF, and Censorship in West Germany by Rudolf Stefen
On SF Comics: Some Notes for a Future Encyclopedia by Bernt Kling
SF: A Publisher's View by Wolfgang Jeschke
Le Guin's "Aberrant" Opus: Escaping the Trap of Discontent by Gérard Klein
A Select Bibliography of the Sociology of Literature by Marc Angenot