Science Fiction Studies

#79 = Volume 26, Part 3 =November 1999

ON GLOBAL SCIENCE FICTION - PART 1

Editorial Introduction. Global SF

Philippe Willems. A Stereoscopic Vision of the Future: Albert Robida’s Twentieth Century (Full text)

Kamala Kinyon. The Phenomenology of Robots: Confrontations with Death in Karel Capek’s R.U.R. (Full text)

Yolanda Molina Gavilán. Alternative Realities from Argentina: Angélica Gorodischer’s "Los embriones del violeta" (Full text)

Domna Pastourmatzi. Hellenic Magazines of Science Fiction (Full text)

Current Trends in Global SF: Roger Bozzetto on France, Elana Gomel on Russia, and Andrea Bell on Latin America

ON SUZY MCKEE CHARNAS

Joan Gordon. Closed Systems Kill: An Interview with Suzy McKee Charnas

Dunja M. Mohr. Parity, with Differences: Suzy McKee Charnas Concludes the Holdfast Series

REVIEW-ESSAYS

Carol McGuirk. Angela’s Ashes: Recent Books on Angela Carter

Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. The Global Province: New Anthologies of International SF by James Gunn and Franz Rottensteiner

David N. Samuelson. Frankenstein Unwound: Jon Turney’s Frankenstein’s Footsteps and David Skal’s Screams of Reason

BOOKS IN REVIEW

Renzi's Jules Verne on Film (Arthur B. Evans)

Bennett's Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Kathleen L. Spencer)

Bell's An Index to Canadian SF of the Pulp Era (Neil Barron)

Nascimento's Coleção Argonauta (R. de Sousa Causo)

Crossley's An Olaf Stapledon Reader (David H. Wilson)

Telotte's A Distant Technology: SF Film (Richard D. Erlich)

Johnston's Information Multiplicity: Fiction in the Age of Media (David Seed)
Taliaferro's Tarzan Forever (VH)

Gunn's The British Way (RL)

Magistrale's Discovering Stephen King's THE SHINING: Essays on the Bestselling Novel by America's Premier Horror Writer (RL)

Munster's Discovering Dean Koontz: Essays on America's Bestselling Writer of Suspense and Horror Fiction. (RL)

Schweitzer's Windows of the Imagination: Essays on Fantastic Literature. (RL)

Touponce's Ray Bradbury and the Poetics of Reverie: Gaston Bachelard, Wolfgang Iser, and the Reader's Response to Fantastic Literature. (RL)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

In Defense of Kingsley Amis; A Response (Brian Aldiss, Nicholas Ruddick)
Unnecessary Translations? (Alan S. Wheelock)
Bibliography of SF Criticism in SFS #78 (Neil Barron, David G. Hartwell)
On SFS #78 and the Moskowitz SF Collection Auctioned Off (Ben P. Indick)
Calls for Papers, Awards, and New SF Websites
Notes on Contributors
Index for Volume 26

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