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SF: The Other Side of Realism: Essays on Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction

Thomas D. Clareson

First published 1971
Publisher Bowling Green State University Popular Press
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Cover art Angus Macdonall
Pages xvi+356

  • This listing is for the hardcover edition, which has orange cloth boards printed in black. It was published without a dust jacket per ABE booksellers.
  • "Edited by Thomas D. Clareson" on cover and title page.
  • On copyright page: "Copyright (c) 1971 by the Bowling Green University Popular Press, Ray B. Browne, Editor", "The pictures reproduce illustrations from John A. Mitchell's novel, Drowsy (1917)" and LCCN.
  • There are 2 illustrations by Angus Macdonall from the 1917 edition of Drowsy which are reproduced on the cover, the pastedowns and the endpapers.
  • No price on book.

Year Reviewer Publication
1971 Charlie Brown Locus, #101 November 19, 1971
1973 Cy Chauvin Amazing Science Fiction, January 1973
1973 Peter Nicholls Foundation, #4 July 1973

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Page Title Author(s) Type
1 The Other Side of Realism Thomas D. Clareson Essay
29 Fantasy and Realism Julius Kagarlitski Essay
53 What Do You Mean: Science? Fiction? Judith Merril Essay
96 The Artistic Problem: Science Fiction as Romance Lionel Stevenson Essay
105 Fantasy As Technique Rudolf B. Schmerl Essay
116 The Wounded Land: J. G. Ballard Brian Aldiss Essay
130 About Five Thousand One Hundred and Seventy Five Words Samuel R. Delany Essay
147 The Two Gardens in C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength Patrick J. Callahan Essay
157 Notes on Science Fiction: The Crisis of Its Growth Michel Butor Essay
166 On Science Fiction Criticism James Blish Essay
171 Frankenstein, Mary Shelley's Black Theodicy Milton A. Mays Essay
181 Stand on Zanzibar: The Novel As Film Norman Spinrad Essay
186 The Last and First Starship from Earth Jane Hipolito Essay
193 Science Fiction and Modern Mythology Willis E. McNelly Essay
199 Foreword to "The Subliminal Man" H. Bruce Franklin Essay
204 The Publication of The Time Machine, 1894-1895 Bernard Bergonzi Essay
216 The Shape of Wars to Come I. F. Clarke Essay
229 The Undisciplined Imagination: Edgar Rice Burroughs and Lowellian Mars Richard D. Mullen Essay
248 A Short Tragical History of the Science Fiction Film Richard Hodgens Essay
258 1001 Interpretations of 2001 Robert Plank Essay
263 2001: Odyssey to Byzantium Morris Beja Essay
267 The Academic Overkill of 2001 Alex Eisenstein Essay
272 Science Fiction As a Cultural Phenomenon: A Re-Evaluation Mark R. Hillegas Essay
282 A Poetic Precursor to Bellamy's Looking Backward Ben Fuson Essay
289 Kurd Lasswitz: A German Pioneer of Science Fiction Franz Rottensteiner Essay
307 Robots in Science Fiction Stanislaw Lem Essay
326 Science Fiction in Dimension Alexei Panshin Essay
334 "A City of Which the Stars Are Suburbs" Susan Glicksohn Essay
348 Award-Winning Science Fiction Novels uncredited Essay
ix Introduction: The Critical Reception of Science Fiction Thomas D. Clareson Essay