Science Fiction Studies

• Darko Suvin Introduction

• Charles Elkins. An Approach to the Social Functions of American Science Fiction

• Albert I. Berger. SF Fans in Socio-Economic Perspective: Factors in the Social Consciousness of a Genre

• A.E. Levin. English-Language Science Fiction as a Socio-Cultural Phenomenon

• Dieter Hasselblatt. Reflections from West Germany on the Science-Fiction Market

• Linda Fleming. The American SF Sub-Culture

• Rudolf Stefen. Violence in Science Fiction, and Censorship in West Germany

• Bernt Kling. On Science-Fiction Comics

• Wolfgang Jeschke. SF: A Publisher's View

• Gérard Klein. Le Guin's "Aberrant" Opus: Escaping the Trap of Discontent

• Marc Angenot. A Select Bibliography of the Sociology of Literature

DOCUMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION

• An 1873 Review of Maitland's By and By

• An 1880 Review of Greg's Across the Zodiac

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE