Science Fiction Studies

#32 = Volume 11, Part 1 = March 1984

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ARTICLE ABSTRACTS

• Robert Shelton. The Mars-Begotten Men of Olaf Stapledon and H.G. Wells

• Carl Freedman. Towards a Theory of Paranoia: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick

• Bulent Somay. Towards an Open-Ended Utopia

• Cecile Lindsay. The Topography of (Science) Fiction: Claude Ollier's Life on Epsilon

• David Ketterer. The Last Inspirational Gasp of James Blish: The Breath of Brahma

• Yves Chevrier. Blade Runner; or, The Sociology of Anticipation

REVIEW-ESSAYS

• David Y. Hughes. Recent Wells Studies (Roslyn D. Haynes. H.G. Wells: Discoverer of the Future. The Influence of Science on His Thought; John Huntington. The Logic of Fantasy. H.G. Wells and Science Fiction; Peter Kemp. H. G. Wells and the Culminating Ape; John R. Reed. The Natural History of H.G. Wells)

• Robert M. Philmus. Undertaking Stapledon (Leslie A. Fiedler. Olaf Stapledon: A Man Divided; John Kinnaird. Olaf Stapledon; Patrick A. McCarthy. Olaf Stapledon)

• John Fekete. The Transmigration of Philip K. Dick (Hazel Pierce. Philip K Dick; Martin Harry Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander, eds. Philip K Dick)

• F.E.L. Priestley. Understanding the "Analytico-Referential" Lion (Timothy J. Reiss. The Discourse of Modernism)

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• The View from Starmont House (Donald M. Hassler. Hal Clement; Eric S. Rabkin. Arthur C. Clarke; Gary K. Wolfe. David Lindsay; Jane Branham Weedman. Samuel Delany) (Peter Fitting)

• Wolfe's Science Fiction Dialogues (Patrick Parrinder)

• Higgins's Haggard Biography (Kathleen McCormack)

• Gunn's Isaac Asimov  (Patrick A. McCarthy)

• Thompson's Dickson Bibliography (Gary K. Wolfe)

• Polish Science Fiction (Antoni Smuszkiewicz. Zaczarowana gra) (Ewe Stachniak)

• Frank's SF&F Film Handbook (Andrew Gordon)

• Garber & Paleo's Uranian Worlds A Reader's Guide to Alternative Sexuality in Science Fiction and Fantasy (Kathleen L. Spencer)

• Hartwell et al.'s Reflections on Fantasy and Science Fiction (Linda Leith)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• Professor Kagarlitsky "Disciplined" (Patrick Parrinder)
• Embarrassing Reference (Darko Suvin)
• Hallowe'en and Cinematic Trickery in E.T. (David Ketterer and Andrew Gordon)
• Peter Fitting on the Borgo Press: Two Reactions and a Note on SFS's Reviewing Policy (Robert Reginald, David Mogen, Peter Fitting, RMP)
• A Case for Uncertainty (Donald M. Hassler)A Demand for the "Social Sciences Perspective" (Harold Lee Prosser, RMP)
• The First Orwell Conference (Paul Schlueter)
• Utopian Social Control (MA) 

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