Science Fiction Studies

#23 = Volume 8, Part 1 = March 1981

SPECIAL SECTION: SCIENCE FICTION THROUGH H.G. WELLS

ARTICLES

Editorial

Robert M. Philmus. The Satiric Ambivalence of The Island of Doctor Moreau

David Lake. The Whiteness of Griffin and H.G. Wells's Images of Death, 1897-1914

William J. Scheick. Toward the Ultra-SF Novel: H.G. Wells's Star Begotten

Michael Tritt. Byron's "Darkness" and Asimov's "Nightfall"

Manfred Nagl. National Peculiarities in German SF

H.G. Wells. Woman and Primitive Culture

Marc Angenot and Nadia Khouri. An International Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction

OTHER ARTICLES

Stanislaw Lem. Metafantasia: The Possibilities of SF

Darko Suvin. Playful Cognizing, or Technical Errors in Harmonyville: The SF of Johanna and Günter Braun

REVIEW-ESSAYS

Aija Ozolins. Twelve Essays on Frankenstein (George Levine and U.C. Knoepflmacher, eds. The Endurance of Frankenstein: Essays on Mary Shelley's Novel)

Franz Rottensteiner. Le Guin's Fantasy (Ursula K. Le Guin. The Language of the Night. Essays an Fantasy and Science Fiction.)

John Fekete. Circumnavigating Ursula Le Guin (Joe De Bolt. ed. Ursula K. Le Guin: Voyager to Inner Lands and to Outer Space)

Carlo Pagetti. Recent Italian Criticism on Utopia and SF (Collettivo "Un'Ambigua Utopia," eds. Nei labirinti della fantascienza; Inìsero Cremaschi, ed. La collina; Vita Fortunati. La Letteratura utopica inglese; Daniela Guardamagna. Analisi dell'incubo. L'utopia negativa da Swift alla fantascienza; Rosella Mamoli Zorzi. Utopia e letteratura nell'ottocento americano; Giuseppe Petronio, ed. Letteratura di massa, Letteratura di consumo)

BOOKS IN REVIEW

Trousson's Voyages aux Pays de nulle part (Marc Angenot)

Furter and Rollet's Stratégies de l'Utopie (Marc Angenot)

Jules Verne in Rumania, Germany, France, and Quebec (Ion Hobana. Douåzeci de mii de pagini in cutarea lui Jules Verne; Thomas Ostwald. Jules Verne: Leben und Werk; Bruno-André Lahalle. Jules Verne et le Québec (1837-1889): Famille-sans-nom; Francois Raymond and Simone Vierne, eds. Jules Verne et les sciences humaines) (Marc Angenot)

The H.G. Wells Scrapbook (Franz Rottensteiner)

Wolfe's The Iconography of Science Fiction (David Samuelson)

Riley's Critical Encounters (Donald Lawler)

A Bibilography of SF and Fantasy In the Low Countries (Joe Dautzenberg)

A Danish Review of SF Criticism A Danish Review of SF Criticism (Marc Angenot)

The Yearbook of French SF (Marc Angenot)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

A Brief Valedictory (Darko Suvin)

The Borgo Press: Setting the Record Straight (Robert Reginald)

News on the Italian Front (Nadia Khouri, RMP, and Carlo Pagetti)

Florida Conference on the Fantastic (Robert Collins)

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