Science Fiction Studies: Selected Articles on Science Fiction 1973-75

by R.D. Mullen (editor), Darko Suvin (editor)

Reprinted from Science-fiction Studies, Vol 1, 2, Spring 1973-11/1975. Edited with a new preface & notes.
Preface & Notes on Contributors 76/R.D. Mullen
The Significant Context of SF: A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation 76/Darko Suvin
On the Structural Analysis of Science Fiction 73/Stanisław Lem (tr. of Od strukturalizmu do tradycjonalizmu)
Towards an Aesthetic of Science Fiction 75/Joanna Russ
The Time-Travel Story & Related Matters of SF Structuring 74/Stanisław Lem
Generic Discontinuities in SF: Aldiss' Starship 76/Fredric Jameson
Sunken Atlantis & the Utopia Question 76/C.R. La Bossiere & R.D. Mullen
On an Essay by James Blish 76/Franz Rottensteiner
A Reply to Mr Rottensteiner 76/James Blish
Surveying the Battlefield 76/Ursula K. Le Guin
A Response from a Marxist 76/H. Bruce Franklin
Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis 76/Chandler Davis
Playing Around with Creation: Philip Jose Farmer 76/Franz Rottensteiner
SF Writers, the Great Consensus & Non-Alignment 76/Darko Suvin
A Reaction to SFS#2 76/Damon Knight
Novels by Brunner & Levin 76/Robert Scholes
A Dialogue Betweeen Ideaphilos & Philologos Intended to Prove Little & Clarify Much 76/Robert M. Philmus
What Do You Mean-Marxism? 76/Mack Reynolds
In Rebuttal 76/Franz Rottensteiner
In Retrospect/Fredric Jameson
A Response to Damon Knight 76/Franz Rottensteiner
Radical Rhapsody & Romantic Recoil in the Age of Anticipation: A Chapter in the History of SF 76/Darko Suvin
Dreams & Doctrines in Frankenstein 76/Aija Ozolins
The SF of H.H. Rosny the Elder 76/J-P Vernier
Childhood's End: A Median Stage of Adolescence 76/David N. Samuelson
Utopian & Fantastic Dualities in Robert Graves' Watch the North Wind Rise 76/Robert H. Canary
Nabokov's Ada as Science Fiction 76/Roy Arthur Swanson
Seeking Only Man: Language & Ethics in Solaris 76/Edward Balcerzan
Wholeness & Balance: An Addendum 76/Douglas Barbour
On Norman Spinrad's The Iron Dream 76/Ursula K. Le Guin
Introductory Note to The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick 76/Darko Suvin
The Manuscripts & Books of Philip K. Dick 76/R.D. Mullen & Willis E. McNelly
P.K. Dick's Opus: Artifice as Refuge & World View-Introductory Reflections 76/Darko Suvin
Foreword to The Preserving Machine 76/Philip K. Dick
Dick & Meta-SF 76/Carlo Pagetti
After Armageddon: Character Systems in Dr Bloodmoney 76/Fredric Jameson
Dick's Maledictory Web: About & Around Martian Timeslip 76/Brian W. Aldiss
Ubik: The Deconstruction of Bourgeois SF 75/Peter Fitting
Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans 75/Stanisław Lem (tr. of Posłowie do Ubika Ph Dicka)
Le Guin's Lathe of Heaven & the Role of Dick: The False Reality as Mediator 76/Ian Watson
A Response to Dr Lem 76/Damon Knight
Introductory Note to The Science Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin 76/Darko Suvin
Ursula K. Le Guin: A Select Bibliography 76/Jeff Levin
American SF & The Other 75/Ursula K. Le Guin
An Approach to the Structure of Le Guin's SF 76/Rafail Nudelman
World Reduction in Le Guin: The Emergence of Utopian Narrative 76/Fredric Jameson
The Forest as Metaphor for Mind: The Word for World is Forest & Vaster Than Empires & More Slow 76/Ian Watson
Public & Private Imperatives in Le Guin's Novels 76/John Huntington
The Politics of Le Guin's Opus 76/David L. Porter
Wholeness & Balance in the Hainish Novels of Ursula K. Le Guin 76/Douglas Barbour
Ambiguity in Utopia: The Dispossessed 76/Judah Bierman
The Art of Social-Science Fiction: The Ambiguous Utopian Dialectics of Ursula K. Le Guin 76/Donald F. Teall
Parables of De-Alienation: Le Guin's Widdershins Dance 76/Darko Suvin

324 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1976