Science Fiction Studies

#91 = Volume 30, Part 3 = November 2003

SPECIAL ISSUE: THE BRITISH SF BOOM

Edited by Mark Bould, Andrew M. Butler, and Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.

INTERVIEW

Joan Gordon. Reveling in Genre: An Interview with China Miéville

ARTICLES

Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. Editorial Introduction

Andrew M. Butler. Thirteen Ways of Looking at the British Boom

Mark Bould. What Kind of Monster Are You?, Situating the Boom

Roger Luckhurst. Cultural Governance, New Labor, and the British SF Boom

Matt Hills. Counterfictions in the Work of Kim Newman: Rewriting Gothic SF as "Alternate-Story Stories"

Joan Gordon. Hybridity, Heterotopia, and Mateship in China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station

Stephen Baxter. Baby Boomers: Writers and their Origins

Mark Bould and Andrew M. Butler, eds. Voices on the Boom

Andrew M. Butler. Towards a Reading List of the British Boom

REVIEW ESSAYS

Aaron Parrett. Alternative Worlds: Burroughs’s Pellucidar, Hyne’s The Lost Continent, and Wells’s The War in the Air

Ruth Berman. The Wizardry of Oz: Rogers’s L. Frank Baum, Hearn’s The Annotated Wizard of Oz, Dighe’s The Historian’s Wizard of Oz, and Swartz’s Oz Before the Rainbow

BOOKS IN REVIEW

Brigg’s The Span of Mainstream and Science Fiction (Neal Easterbrook)
Dick’s The Man Who Japed, The Zap Gun, and Counter-Clock World (Aaron Parrett)
Hintz/Ostry’s Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults (Farah Mendlesohn)
Mackay’s The Yellow Wave (Russell Blackford)
Molina-Gavilán’s Ciencia Ficción En Español (Pedro Jorge Romero)
Rosenberg/Hixon/Scapple/White’s Diana Wynne Jones (Maureen Kincaid Speller)
Secrest’s The Fiction of Walter M. Miller, Jr. (David N. Samuelson)
Schakel’s Imagination and the Arts in C.S. Lewis (Georgina Kennedy)
Smith’s H.G. Wells on Film (Michael J. Anzelone)
Straub’s Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists (JG)
Warner’s Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds (Sandra Lindow)
Westfahl/Slusser/Leiby’s Explorations of Time in Science Fiction and Fantasy (Joe Haldeman)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

SF Intertextuality: Bunyan, Baum, and Burroughs (CM)
Request for SF Materials (Alexandre Ramos Mastrella)
Clarion Funding Cut at MSU (Michael Levy)
Mervyn Peake News (G. Peter Winnington)
Heinlein’s First Novel Surfaces (CM)
ICFA 2004 (Christine Mains)
Mythic Imagination Newsletter and Conference (John Adcox)
Call for Papers on Commonwealth SF (Andrew M. Butler)
Sunburst Award Shortlist (CM)
Tomb of Gilgamesh Discovered? (Hal Hall)

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