Science Fiction Studies

 ESSAYS

• Gwyneth Jones. Metempsychosis of the Machine

• Frederik Pohl. The Study of Science Fiction: A Modest Proposal

DISCUSSION

• Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, and David Brin. Building on Isaac Asimov's Foundation

ARTICLES

• I.F. Clarke. Before and After The Battle of Dorking

• David Ketterer. Frankenstein's "Conversion" from Natural Magic to Modern Science—and a Shifted and Converted Last Draft Insert

REVIEW-ESSAYS

• David Y. Hughes. The Doctor Vivisected: Stover's Moreau

• Veronica Hollinger. The Technobody and Its Discontents (Mark Dery. Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century; Anne Balsamo. Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women; Claudia Springer. Electronic Eros: Bodies and Desire in the Postindustrial Age)

• Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. The Critic: Clute's Look at the Evidence 

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Broderick's Reading by Starlight (David N. Samuelson)

• The Sallis Collection of Essays on Delany (Carol McGuirk)   

• Delany's Longer Views: Extended Essays (R.D. Mullen)

• The Ezrahi-Mendelsohn-Segal Collection Technology, Pessimism, and Postmodernism (Donald F. Theall)

• Baudrillard's Cool Memories II, 1987-1990 (Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr)  

• Sanders' Collection, Functions of the Fantastic (Gary Westfahl)

• Innerhofer's Deutsche Science Fiction 1870-1914 (Franz Rottensteiner) 

• Belford's Bram Stoker: A Biography (Carol Davison)

• Sutin's The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick (Andrew M. Butler)  

• Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers ( Paul Bail. John Saul; Robin Roberts. Anne McCaffrey; Sharon A Russell. Stephen King;  Elizabeth A. Trembly. Michael Crichton) (Gary Westfahl)

NAIVE VS POSTMODERN CRITICISM: AN EXCHANGE

• In Search of Wonder Naive Criticism (David Dalgleish)

• We're Not in Kansas Anymore (Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.)