Science Fiction Studies

#12 = Volume 4, Part 2 = July 1977

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ARTICLES

• Stanislaw Lem. Cosmology and Science Fiction.

• Jerzy Jarzebski. Stanislaw Lem, Rationalist and Visionary.

• Gary K. Wolfe. Mythic Structures in Cordwainer Smith's "The Game of Rat and Dragon."

• Tom Moylan. Ideological Contradiction in Clarke's The City and the Stars.

• Ursula K. Le Guin. A New Book by the Strugatskys.

• Bernt Kling. Perry Rhodan.

• Michael D. White. Ellison's Harlequin: Irrational Moral Action in Static Time.

• Robert M. Philmus. H.G. Wells as Literary Critic for the Saturday Review. With abstracts of 92 reviews, 1895-97.

DOCUMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF SF

• Edward Bellamy. How I Came to Write Looking Backward

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• McConnell's "Critical Edition" of The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds (David Y. Hughes)

• The Panshins' SF in Dimension, Nicholls' SF at Large, and the Scholes-Rabkin Science Fiction: History—Science—Vision (David Samuelson)

• Clareson's Many Futures, Many Worlds (Scott Sanders)

• The Bogdanoffs' Clefs pour la science-fiction (Marc Angenot)

• Cawelti's Adventure, Mystery and Romance (George Szanto)

• The Publications of NESFA; and Other New Books at Hand

NOTES, REPORTS, CORRESPONDENCE

• On the Ouster of Stanislaw Lem from the SFWA
• Brian W. Aldiss. What Dark Non-Literary Passions
• Stanislaw Lem. Looking Down on Science Fiction [from Atlas]
• Pamela Sargent and George Zebrowski. How It Happened: A Chronology
• Pamela Sargent. Why It Happened: Comments and Conclusions
• George Zebrowski. Why It Happened: Some Notes and Opinions
• Jack Dann, Gregory Benford. Letters on the Affair
• Andrew Offutt (President of SFWA). How It Happened: One Bad Decision Leading to Another
• R.D. Mullen. I Could Not Love Thee, Dear, So Much
• The SF Conferences in Poznan and Dublin (Brian W. Aldiss)
• On Alexei Panshin and Heinlein Criticism (S.C. Fredericks)
• On S.C. Fredericks and SF Criticism (Alexei Panshin)
• Response to Alexei Panshin (S.C. Fredericks)
• The First James Blish Award; and Notes on Contributors

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