Science Fiction Studies

#82 = Volume 27, Part 3 = November 2000

ESSAY

Gregory Benford. The South and Science Fiction (Full text)

ARTICLES

• R.D. Mullen. Dialect, Grapholect, and Story: Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker as Science Fiction (Full text)

• Charles DePaolo. Wells, Golding, and Auel: Representing the Neanderthal. (Full text)

• Amy J. Ransom. (Un)common Ground: National Sovereignty and Individual Identity in Contemporary SF from Québec (Full text)

• Neil Gerlach and Sheryl Hamilton. Telling the Future, Managing the Present: Business Restructuring Literature as SF (Full text)

REVIEW-ESSAYS

• Nicholas Ruddick. The Aesthetics of Descent: Recent Books on Nineteenth-Century Decadence  (Nicholas Daly, Modernism, Romance and the Fin de Siècle; Brian Stableford, Glorious Perversity: The Rise and Fall of Literary Decadence; Liz Constable et al., eds., Perennial Decay: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadence; Susan J. Navarette, The Shape of Fear: Horror and the Fine de Siècle Culture of Decadence; and Kelly Hurley, The Gothic Body: Sexuality, Materialism, and Degeneration at the Fin de Siècle)

• Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.  Pre2K Post2K  (Margaret Morse, Virtualities: Television, Media Art, and Cyberculture; Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, eds., Digital Delirium; and Joan Broadhurst Dixon and Eric Cassidy, eds., Virtual Futures: Cyberotics, Technology, and Post-Human Pragmatism)

• Janice Bogstad. YA SF  (Suzanne Elizabeth Reid, Presenting Young Adult Science Fiction; Karen Sands and Marietta Frank, Back in the Spaceship Again: Juvenile Science Fiction Series Since 1945; Gary Westfahl, Science Fiction, Children's Literature, and Popular Culture: Coming of Age in Fantasyland; and C.W. Sullivfan III, ed., Young Adult Science Fiction)

• Veronica Hollinger. Old Dreams, New Stories (Chris Ferns, Narrating Utopia: Ideology, Gender, Form in Utopian Literature)

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Edmund J. Smyth, ed. Jules Verne: Narratives of Modernity (Paul Alkon)

• Annette Kuhn, ed. Alien Zone II: The Space of Science Fiction Cinema (Andrew Butler)

• Kim Newman. Apocalypse Movies: End of the World Cinema (Andrew Butler)

• Leon Stover, ed. H.G. Wells, When the Sleeper Wakes: A Critical Text of the 1899 New York and London First Editions, with an Introduction and Appendices (W. Warren Wagar)

• Cyndy Hendershot. Paranoia, the Bomb, and 1950s Science Fiction Films (Leerom Medovoi)

• David Seed. American Science Fiction and the Cold War: Literature and Film (Leerom Medovoi)

• Brian Jarvis. Postmodern Cartographies: The Geographical Imagination in Contemporary American Culture (Neil Easterbrook)

• Dani Cavallaro. Cyberpunk and Cyberculture: Science Fiction and the work of William Gibson (Mark Bould)

• Samuel R. Delany. 1984 (Carl Freedman)

• Robin Roberts. Sexual Generations: Star Trek: The Next Generation and Gender (Daniel Bernardi)

• Gary Westfahl, ed. Space and Beyond: The Frontier Theme in Science Fiction (David N. Samuelson)

• Tim Armstrong. Modernity, Technology, and the Body: A Cultural Study (James Satter)

• Mette Bryld and Nina Lykke. Cosmodolphins: Feminist Cultural Studies of Technology, Animals, and the Sacred (James Satter)

• Eric Leif Davin. Pioneers of Wonder: Conversations with the Founders of Science Fiction (Alexander Irvine)

• Eric Greene. Planet of the Apes as American Myth: Race, Politics, and Popular Culture (Corey Creekmur)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• The "True Riddle of the Sphinx" in The Time Machine (John S. Prince)
• Report from a Grand Master (Brian W. Aldiss)
• Law and SF (Bruce L. Rockwood)
• Another Online Legal Studies Journal (Paul R. Joseph)
• Olaf Stapledon Panel Discussion and Library Exhibit (Andy Sawyer)
• Online Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database (Hal W. Hall)
• Pearson Wins Pioneer Award
• Journal for Gene Wolfe Studies
• Calls for Papers

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