Science Fiction Studies

#28 = Volume 9, Part 3 = November 1982

SPECIAL ISSUE: THE SCIENCE FICTION OF OLAF STAPLEDON

Patrick McCarthy. Editorial Introduction

Eric Rabkin. The Composite Fiction of Olaf Stapledon

Robert Branham. Stapledon's "Agnostic Mysticism"

John Huntington. Remembrance of Things to Come: Narrative Technique in Last and First Men

Curtis C. Smith. The Manuscript of Last and First Men: Towards a Variorum

Amelia A. Rutledge. Star Maker: The Agnostic Quest

Roy Arthur Swanson. The Spiritual Factor in Odd John and Sirius.

Robert Crossley. Politics and the Artist: The Aesthetic of Darkness and the Light

Robert Casillo. Olaf Stapledon and John Ruskin

REVIEW-ESSAYS

Fredric Jameson. Towards a New Awareness of Genre (Patrick Parrinder. Science Fiction: Its Criticism and Teaching; Patrick Parrinder ed. Science Fiction: A Critical Guide)

Charles Elkins. A Utopian Project (Kenneth Roemer, ed. America as Utopia)

BOOKS IN REVIEW

Brooke-Rose's Rhetoric of the Unreal (Gary K. Wolfe)

Punter's The Literature of Terror (Gisela Casines)

Slusser and Rabkin's Bridges to Science Fiction (David N. Samuelson)

Fiedler and Mele's Isaac Asimov (Michael Tritt)

Diskin's Theodore Sturgeon; Menger's Theodore Sturgeon (Donald M. Hassler)

Williamson's Teaching Science Fiction: Education for Tomorrow (C. Bruce Hunter)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

Oedipus as Time Traveller (David Ketterer)
Death and the Textual Shadow of the SF Author, Again (Gregory Benford and David Ketterer)
The Angenot-Khouri Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction: Additions, Corrections, and Comment (Gordon A. Chamberlain)
SF at the MLA Convention
Images of the Inner and Outer Space: A Conference at Nice
SF and the Construction of Reality: A Call for Papers
Fantasy and Horror, Aesthetics and Theory: A Call for Papers

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