Science Fiction Studies

#12 = Volume 4, Part 2 = July 1977

ARTICLES

Stanislaw Lem. Cosmology and Science Fiction

Jerzy Jarzebski. Stanislaw Lem, Rationalist and Visionary

Gary K. Wolfe. Mythic Structures in Cordwainer Smith's "The Game of Rat and Dragon"

Tom Moylan. Ideological Contradiction in Clarke's The City and the Stars

Ursula K. Le Guin. A New Book by the Strugatskys

Bernt Kling. Perry Rhodan

Michael D. White. Ellison's Harlequin: Irrational Moral Action in Static Time

Robert M. Philmus. H.G. Wells as Literary Critic for the Saturday Review. With abstracts of 92 reviews, 1895-97

DOCUMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF SF

Edward Bellamy. How I Came to Write Looking Backward

BOOKS IN REVIEW

McConnell's "Critical Edition" of The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds (David Y. Hughes)

The Panshins' SF in Dimension, Nicholls' SF at Large, and the Scholes-Rabkin Science Fiction: History—Science—Vision (David Samuelson)

Clareson's Many Futures, Many Worlds (Scott Sanders)

The Bogdanoffs' Clefs pour la science-fiction (Marc Angenot)

Cawelti's Adventure, Mystery and Romance (George Szanto)

The Publications of NESFA; and Other New Books at Hand

NOTES, REPORTS, CORRESPONDENCE

On the Ouster of Stanislaw Lem from the SFWA

Brian W. Aldiss. What Dark Non-Literary Passions

Stanislaw Lem. Looking Down on Science Fiction [from Atlas]

Pamela Sargent and George Zebrowski. How It Happened: A Chronology
Pamela Sargent. Why It Happened: Comments and Conclusions
George Zebrowski. Why It Happened: Some Notes and Opinions
Jack Dann, Gregory Benford. Letters on the Affair
Andrew Offutt (President of SFWA). How It Happened: One Bad Decision Leading to Another
R.D. Mullen. I Could Not Love Thee, Dear, So Much

The SF Conferences in Poznan and Dublin (Brian W. Aldiss)
On Alexei Panshin and Heinlein Criticism (S.C. Fredericks)
On S.C. Fredericks and SF Criticism (Alexei Panshin)
Response to Alexei Panshin (S.C. Fredericks)
The First James Blish Award; and Notes on Contributors

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