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Science Fiction, Canonization, Marginalization, and the Academy

Gary Westfahl & George Slusser

First published 2002
Publisher Greenwood Press
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Pages vi+182
Price $63.95
ISBN 0313320640

No price or pub month on book. Copyright page lists only year: "First published in 2002". No dust jacket on verification copy. First printing per number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 "Acknowledgements" on p.vii per ToC, but page is not numbered. "Index" on pp.171-179 "About the Contributors" on pp.181-182

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Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Introduction: Masters of the Literary Universe Gary Westfahl Essay
7 Literary Gatekeepers and the Fabril Tradition Tom Shippey Essay
25 Seven Types of Chopped Liver: My Adventures in the Genre Wars Frank McConnell Essay
37 The Things Women Don't Say Susan Kray Essay
51 Why the Academy Is Afraid of Dragons: The Suppression of the Marvelous in Theories of the Fantastic Jonathan Langford Essay
67 The Arthur C. Clarke Award and Its Reception in Britain Edward James Essay
79 Popes or Tropes: Defining the Grails of Science Fiction Joseph D. Miller Essay
89 Science Fiction Eye and the Rebellion Against Recursion Stephen P. Brown Essay
95 Authorities, Canons, and Scholarship: The Role of Academic Journals Arthur B. Evans Essay
103 Multiculturalism and the Cultural Dynamics of Classic American Science Fiction George Slusser Essay
119 Science Fiction in the Academies of History and Literature; Or, History and the Use of Science Fiction Farah Mendlesohn Essay
127 (E)raced Visions: Women of Color and Science Fiction in the United States Elyce Rae Helford Essay
139 Hard Magic, Soft Science: The Marginalization of Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason's Assemblers of Infinity and Bruce Boston's Stained Glass Rain Howard V. Hendrix Essay
151 White Men Can't ...: (De)centering Authority and Jacking into Phallic Economies in William Gibson's Count Zero Joseph Childers & Townsend Carr & Regna Meenk Essay
161 Bibliography of Works Related to Science Fiction, Canonization, and Marginalization uncredited Essay