Science Fiction Studies

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 ARTICLES

• Elizabeth Hewitt. Generic Exhaustion and the "Heat Death" of Science Fiction (Full text)

• George McKay. Metapropaganda: Self-Reading Dystopian Fiction: Burdekin's Swastika Night and Orwell's Nighteen Eighty-Four (Full text)

• Chris Hables Gray. "There Will Be War!": Future War Fantasies and Militaristic Science Fiction in the 1980s (Full text)

• M. Keith Booker. Woman on the Edge of a Genre: The Feminist Dystopias of Marge Piercy   (Full text)

• Fiona Kelleghan. Hell's My Destination: Imprisonment in the Works of Alfred Bester  (Full text)

• Nicoletta Vallorani. The Body of the City: Angela Carter's The Passion of the New Eve (Full text)

• Arthur B. Evans. The Fantastic Science Fiction of Maurice Renard (Full text)

DOCUMENT IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION

• Maurice Renard. On the Scientific-Marvelous Novel and Its Influence on the Understanding of Progress

REVIEW-ESSAYS

• David N. Samuelson. A Softening of the Hard Sf Concept: Hartwell and Cramer's The Ascent of Wonder

• Patrick Parrinder. Questionable Guides: The Everyman Editions of Wells' Science Fiction

• Gary K. Wolfe. On Some Recent SF Scholarship (John J. Pierce. Odd Genre: A Study in Imagination and Evolution; Five Books on Star Trek; M. Keith Booker. The Dystopian Impulse in Modern Literature: Fiction as Social Criticism & Dystopian Literature: A Theory and Research Guide; Scott McCloud. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art; Jack Seabrook. Martians and Misplaced Clues: The Life and Work of Fredric Brown)

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Alkon's Science Fiction Before 1900 (Arthur B. Evans)

• Roberts' Still the Frame Holds (Nicola Nixon)

• Barr's Lost in Space (Nicola Nixon)

• The Collection Robbe-Grillet and the Fantastic (Neal Baker)

• Mogen's Wilderness Visions (Bill Collins)

• Malzberg's The Passage of the Light (R.D. Mullen)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• The CD-Rom Edition of the Clute-Nicholls Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
• A New Canadian Sf Journal (David Ketterer)  
• A New Verne Society Established  
• The Science Fiction Foundation  
• A Booklet on a Machen Exhibit 
• Apologies (RDM) 

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