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Science-Fiction Studies, Second Series: Selected Articles on Science Fiction 1976-1977

R. D. Mullen & Darko Suvin

First published 1978
Publisher Gregg Press
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Pages xiv+335
Price $15.00
ISBN 0839824440

No dust jacket, as issued. Red buckram with titles in gold on black background. No printed price. Price from Gregg Press catalog. Photographic reprint of the

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Lucian's True History as SF S. C. Fredericks Essay
13 Iambulus' Islands of the Sun and Hellenistic Literary Utopias David Winston Essay
22 The True, the False, and the Truly False: Lucian's Philosophical Science Fiction Roy Arthur Swanson Essay
33 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 Darko Suvin Essay
42 The Reading and Writing of Utopia in Denis Diderot's Supplément au voyage de Bougainville Christie V. McDonald Essay
48 German Theories of Science Fiction: Jean Paul, Kurd Lasswitz, and After William B. Fischer Essay
59 Wells in Three Volumes? A Sketch of British Publishing in the 19th Century George Locke Essay
64 News from Nowhere, The Time Machine and the Break-Up of Classical Realism Patrick Parrinder Essay
74 The Time Machine and the End of Man Alex Eisenstein Essay
78 Utopia and Epic: Ideological Confrontation in Jack London's The Iron Heel Nadia Khouri Essay
86 Science Fiction and Allied Literature David Ketterer Essay
97 Mythic Structure in Cordwainer Smith's "The Game of Rat and Dragon" Gary K. Wolfe Essay
104 Invisible Men and Women: The Disappearance of Character in Science Fiction Scott Sanders Essay
115 The Lost Canticles of Walter M. Miller, Jr. David N. Samuelson Essay
138 Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" Novels: Historical Materialism Distorted into Cyclical Psycho-History Charles Elkins Essay
148 Ursula K. Le Guin and the Decline of Romantic Love Robert Plank Essay
155 A Response to the Le Guin Issue Ursula K. Le Guin Essay
158 From Technique to Critique: Knowledge and Human Interests in John Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar, The Jagged Orbit, and The Sheep Look Up Michael Stern Essay
176 The Future History and Development of the English Language Walter E. Meyers Essay
189 The Triumph of Prophecy: Science Fiction and Nuclear Power in the Post-Hiroshima Period Albert I. Berger Essay
196 J. G. Ballard and the Limits of Mainstream SF Charles Nicol Essay
204 The Surreal Translations of Samuel R. Delany Peter S. Alterman Essay
214 Cosmology and Science Fiction Stanislaw Lem Essay
217 Stanislaw Lem, Rationalist and Visionary Jerzy Jarzębski Essay
234 Lem in Review (June 2238) Michael Kandel V Essay
238 Introduction: The Sociology of Science Fiction Darko Suvin Essay
243 Discontent in American Science Fiction Gérard Klein Essay
254 An Approach to the Social Functions of American SF Charles Elkins Essay
258 Science-Fiction Fans in Socio-Economic Perspective: Factors in the Social Consciousness of a Genre Albert I. Berger Essay
272 English-Language SF as a Socio-Cultural Phenomenon A. E. Levin Essay
282 Reflections from West Germany on the Science-Fiction Market Dieter Hasselblatt Essay
289 The American SF Subculture Linda Fleming Essay
297 Violence in SF, and Censorship in West Germany Rudolf Stefen Essay
303 On SF Comics: Some Notes for a Future Encyclopedia Bernt Kling Essay
309 SF: A Publisher's View Wolfgang Jeschke Essay
313 Le Guin's "Aberrant" Opus: Escaping the Trap of Discontent Gérard Klein Essay
321 A Select Bibliography of the Sociology of Literature Marc Angenot Essay
vii Introduction (Science-Fiction Studies, Second Series: Selected Articles on Science Fiction 1976-1977) Marc Angenot Essay
x Notes on Contributors uncredited Essay