Science Fiction Studies

INTERVIEW

• Joseph Francavilla. Disching It Out: An Interview with Thomas Disch

ARTICLES

• Mark Siegel. Foreigner as Alien in Japanese Science Fantasy

• Tony Williams. Female Oppression in Attack of the 50-Foot Woman

• Anne Cranny-Francis. Sexuality and Sex-Role Stereotyping in Star Trek

• Perry Nodelman. Out There in Children's Science Fiction: Forward into the Past

• Lorenz J. Firsching. J.G. Ballard's Ambiguous Apocalypse

REVIEW-ESSAY

• Nancy Steffen-Fluhr. Paper Tiger: Women and H.G. Wells (H.G. Wells. Experiment in Autobiography: Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain (Since 1866); G.P. Wells, ed. H.G. Wells in Love: Postscript to an Experiment in Autobiography; Gordon N. Ray. H.G. Wells and Rebecca West; Anthony West. H.G. Wells: Aspects of a Life)

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Yoke & Hassler's Death and the Serpent: Immortality in Science Fiction and Fantasy; Reilley's The Transcendent Adventure: Studies of Religion in Science Fiction Fantasy (Howard Kaminsky)

• Porush's Soft Machine (Richard A. Schwartz)

• Elgin's The Comedy of the Fantastic (Gary K. Wolfe)

• Thompson's The Return from Avalon: A Study of the Arthurian Legend in Modern Fiction (Richard Dwyer)

• A Visual Commentary on Frankenstein (Mary Shelley. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. The Pennyroyal Edition as designed and illustrated by Barry Moser) (David Ketterer)

• Robinson's The Novels of Philip K. Dick (Merritt Abrash)

• Spivack's Ursula K. Le Guin (James Bittner)

• McEvoy's Samuel R. Delany (Kathleen L. Spencer)

• Chapman's Guide to Farmer (Gary K. Wolfe)