Science Fiction Studies

#41 = Volume 14, Part 1 = March 1987

ARTICLES

• Stanislaw Lem. On Stapledon's Star Maker

• Charles Nicol. Nabokov and Science Fiction: "Lance"

• Patrick D. Murphy. Dialogics and Didacticism: John Brunner's Narrative Blending

• Soren Baggesen. Utopian and Dystopian Pessimism: Le Guin's The Word for World is Forest and Tiptree's "We Who Stole the Dream"

• Fredric Jameson. Science Fiction as a Spatial Genre: Generic Discontinuities and the Problem of Figuration in Vonda McIntyre's The Exile Waiting

• Florian F. Marzin. Science Fiction and Censorship in West Germany: A Literary Genre on the Index

REVIEW-ESSAYS

• David Y. Hughes. British "Scientific Romance" (Brian Stableford. Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950)

• Elizabeth Maslen. Proper Words in Proper Places: The Challenge of Capek's War with the Newts

• Robert Crossley. Dystopian Nights (Joseph O'Neill. Land Under England; Katharine Burdekin. Swastika Night)

• W. Warren Wagar. The Best and Worst of Times (David Bleich. Utopia: The Psychology of a Cultural Fantasy: Alexandra Aldridge. The Scientific World View in Dystopia)

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Pfaelzer's The Utopian Novel in America (Nadia Khouri)

• Ben-Yehuda's Deviance and Moral Boundaries (Robert Galbreath)

• La nouvelle science-fiction américaine (Marc Angenot)

• Beauchamp's Jack London (Nadia Khouri)