Science Fiction Studies

#83 = Volume 28, Part 1 = March 2001

DOCUMENT IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION

Karel Čapek. Preface to Bílá Nemoc (edited by RMP)

ARTICLES

Robert M. Philmus. Matters of Translation: Karel Čapek and Paul Selver

Elizabeth Small. Religious Institutions in Spanish Science Fiction

Lorenzo DiTommaso. Gnosticism and Dualism in the Early Fiction of Philip K. Dick

Vernon Shetley and Alissa Ferguson. Reflections in a Silver Eye: Lens and Mirror in Blade Runner

REVIEW-ESSAYS

John Fekete. Science Fiction as Adversarial Culture: Freedman’s Critical Theory and Science Fiction

Arthur B. Evans. Hetzel and Verne: Dumas, della Riva, and Dehs’s Correspondance de Jules Verne et de Pierre-Jules Hetzel

Carl Freedman. Adventures of the Dialectic: Delany’s Shorter Views: Queer Thoughts & the Politics of the Paraliterary

BOOKS IN REVIEW

Gwyneth Jones’s Deconstructing the Starships: Science, Fiction and Reality (ICR)

Camille Bacon-Smith’s Science Fiction Culture (Marleen Barr)

Kurt Lancaster’s Warlocks and Warpdrive and Vivian Sobchack’s Meta- Morphing (Donald F. Theall)

Elyce Rae Helford’s Fantasy Girls: Gender in the New Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy Television (Alcena Rogan)

Inez van der Spek’s Alien Plots: Female Subjectivity and the Divine in the Light of James Tiptree’s "A Momentary Taste of Being" (Diana Pharaoh Francis)

James Gifford’s Robert A. Heinlein: A Reader’s Companion and Anthony R. Lewis’s A Concordance to Cordwainer Smith (CM)

Paul J. Nahin’s Time Machines: Time Travel in Physics, Metaphysics, and Science Fiction (David Wittenberg)

Carla Freccero’s Popular Culture: An Introduction (Gregory Beatty)

George Slusser et al.’s Transformations of Utopia (Marc Angenot)

Sheree R. Thomas’s Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (Isiah Lavender, III)

Judith Kerman and Don Riggs’s Uncommonplaces: Poems of the Fantastic (Nancy Johnston)

Chris Gregory’s Star Trek: Parallel Narratives (Andrew Gordon)

Terry A. Murray’s Science Fiction Magazine Story Index, 1926-1995 (RL)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

Stanislaw Lem: A Moralist Who Doesn’t Moralize (Peter Haffner)

Support for Extrapolation (Carl Freedman)

Dating the "Rise" of SF (Damon Knight) and Response (Gregory Benford)

Alternative World? (Paul M. Lloyd) and Response (Gregory Benford)

Dick in Italy (Umberto Rossi)

Calls for Papers and Special Issues

Freedman Honored (CM)

Correcting the "True Riddle of the Sphinx" (CM)

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