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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