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Science-Fiction Studies: Selected Articles on Science Fiction 1973-1975

R. D. Mullen & Darko Suvin

First published 1976
Publisher Gregg Press
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Pages xix+304
Price $15.00
ISBN 083982338X

No dust jacket, as issued. Green buckram with titles in gold on red background.
No printed price. Price from Gregg Press catalog. "Frontispiece illustration by Richard Powers" on copyright page.

Year Reviewer Publication
1977 Darrell Schweitzer Science Fiction Review, August 1977

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 On the Structural Analysis of Science Fiction Stanislaw Lem Essay
8 Towards an Aesthetic of Science Fiction Joanna Russ Essay
16 The Time-Travel Story and Related Matters of SF Structuring Stanislaw Lem Essay
28 Generic Discontinuities in SF: Aldiss' Starship Fredric Jameson Essay
40 Sunken Atlantis and the Utopia Question R. D. Mullen & C. R. La Bossiere Essay
48 On an Essay by James Blish Franz Rottensteiner Essay
50 A Reply to Mr Rottensteiner James Blish Essay
52 Surveying the Battlefield Ursula K. Le Guin Essay
54 A Response from a Marxist H. Bruce Franklin Essay
56 Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis Chandler Davis Essay
58 Playing Around with Creation: Philip José Farmer Franz Rottensteiner Essay
62 SF Writers, the Great Consensus, and Non-Alignment Darko Suvin Essay
64 A Reaction to SFS #2 Damon Knight Essay
65 Novels by Brunner and Levin Robert Scholes Essay
66 A Dialogue Betweeen Ideaphilos and Philologos (Intended to Prove Little and Clarify Much) Robert M. Philmus Essay
69 What Do You Mean - Marxism ? Mack Reynolds Essay
70 In Rebuttal Franz Rottensteiner Essay
71 In Retrospect Fredric Jameson Essay
75 A Response to Damon Knight Franz Rottensteiner Essay
76 Radical Rhapsody and Romantic Recoil in the Age of Anticipation: A Chapter in the History of SF Darko Suvin Essay
91 Dreams and Doctrines in Frankenstein Aija Ozolins Essay
100 The SF of H. H. Rosny the Elder J.-P. Vernier Essay
108 Childhood's End: A Median Stage of Adolescence David N. Samuelson Essay
121 Utopian and Fantastic Dualities in Robert Graves's Watch the North Wind Rise Robert H. Canary Essay
128 Nabokov's Ada as Science Fiction Roy Arthur Swanson Essay
141 Seeking Only Man: Language and Ethics in Solaris Edward Balcerzan Essay
146 Wholeness and Balance: An Addendum Douglas Barbour Essay
155 On Norman Spinrad's The Iron Dream Ursula K. Le Guin Essay
159 Introductory Note to The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick Darko Suvin Essay
160 The Manuscripts and Books of Philip K. Dick R. D. Mullen & Willis E. McNelly Essay
164 P. K. Dick's Opus: Artifice as Refuge and World View (Introductory Reflections) Darko Suvin Essay
178 Foreword to The Preserving Machine Philip K. Dick Essay
180 Dick and Meta-SF Carlo Pagetti Essay
187 After Armageddon: Character Systems in Dr. Bloodmoney Fredric Jameson Essay
198 Dick's Maledictory Web: About and Around Martian Timeslip Brian W. Aldiss Essay
203 Ubik: The Deconstruction of Bourgeois SF Peter Fitting Essay
210 Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans Stanislaw Lem Essay
223 Le Guin's Lathe of Heaven and the Role of Dick: The False Reality as Mediator Ian Watson Essay
232 A Response to Dr. Lem Damon Knight Essay
233 Introductory Note to The Science Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin Darko Suvin Essay
234 Ursula K. Le Guin: A Select Bibliography Jeff Levin Essay
238 American SF and The Other Ursula K. Le Guin Essay
240 An Approach to the Structure of Le Guin's SF Rafail Nudelman Essay
251 World Reduction in Le Guin: The Emergence of Utopian Narrative Fredric Jameson Essay
261 The Forest as Metaphor for Mind: "The Word for World Is Forest" and "Vaster Than Empires and More Slow" Ian Watson Essay
267 Public and Private Imperatives in Le Guin's Novels John Huntington Essay
273 The Politics of Le Guin's Opus David L. Porter Essay
278 Wholeness and Balance in the Hainish Novels of Ursula K. Le Guin Douglas Barbour Essay
279 Ambiguity in Utopia: The Dispossessed Judah Bierman Essay
286 The Art of Social-Science Fiction: The Ambiguous Utopian Dialectics of Ursula K. Le Guin Donald F. Teall Essay
295 Parables of De-Alienation: Le Guin's Widdershins Dance Darko Suvin Essay
viii Preface and Notes on Contributors (Science-Fiction Studies) R. D. Mullen Essay
xiii The Significant Context of SF: A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation Darko Suvin Essay