Science Fiction Studies

#55 = Volume 18, Part 3 = November 1991

SPECIAL ISSUE: SCIENCE FICTION AND POSTMODERNISM

ARTICLES

Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. Introduction: Postmodernism's SF/SF's Postmodernism

Jean Baudrillard. Two Essays: "Simulacra and Science Fiction" and "Ballard's Crash"

In Response to Jean Baudrillard (N. Katherine Hayles, David Porush, Brooks Landon, and Vivian Sobchack) and to the Invitation to Respond (J.G. Ballard)

Christopher Palmer. Postmodernism and the Birth of the Author in Philip K. Dick's Valis

Scott Bukatman. Postcards from the Posthuman Solar System

Roger Luckhurst. Border Policing: Postmodernism and SF

David Porush. Prigogine, Chaos, and Contemporary SF

Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. The SF of Theory: Baudrillard and Haraway

REVIEW-ESSAYS

Roy Arthur Swanson. Postmodernist Criticism of Pynchon (Alec McHoul and David Wills. Writing Pynchon: Strategies in Fictional Analysis)

Peter Ohlin. Science-Fiction Film Criticism and the Debris of Postmodernism (Annette Kuhn, ed. Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema; Constance Penley, Elizabeth Lyon, Lynn Spigel, & Janet Bergstrom, eds. Close Encounters: Film, Feminism, and Science Fiction)

Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. Three Versions of Postmodernism: Hayles, McCaffery, Gane (Larry McCaffery. Across the Wounded Galaxies: Interviews with Contemporary American Science Fiction Writers; N. Katherine Hayles. Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science; Mike Gane. Baudrillard Critical and Fatal Theory)

David Y. Hughes. H.G. Wells: Towards a Synthesis? (Patrick Parrinder & Christopher Rolfe, eds. H.G. Wells Under Revision: Proceedings of the International Wells Symposium, London, July 1986)

Richard P. Terra. A General Framework for Familiar Concepts (Thomas J. Roberts. An Aesthetics of Junk Fiction)

Douglas Barbour. In Search of the Poetic Fantastic (Patrick D. Murphy & Vernon Hyles, eds. The Poetic Fantastic: Studies in an Evolving Genre; Scott E. Green. Contemporary Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Poetry: A Resource Guide and Biographical Directory) (Douglas Barbour)

BOOKS IN REVIEW

Berghahn & Grimm's Utopian Vision, Technological Innovation, and Poetic Imagination (Frank Dietz)

Cheyfitz's Politics of Imperialism (Donald M. Hassler)

Behrendt's Approaches to Teaching Shelley's "Frankenstein" (Veronica Hollinger)

A Critical Edition of She (R.D. Mullen)

Starmont, Borgo, and the English Association (Nicholas Ruddick. Christopher Priest; Stephen R. Dziemianowicz. The Annotated Guide to Unknown &Unknown Worlds; Steve Behrends. Clark Ashton Smith; Raymond Z. Gallun with Dr. Jeffrey M. Elliott. Starclimber: The Literary Adventures and Autobiography of Raymond Z. Gallun; Beverly Lyon Clark. Lewis Carroll; Scott Alan Burgess. The Work of Dean Ing: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide; Tom Shippey, ed., Fictional Space: Essays on Contemporary Science Fiction) (R.D. Mullen)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

Notes (R.M. Philmus, R.D. Mullen)

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