Extrapolation back issues from September 2002:
Acknowledgements: monsters and scientists.(Editorial)
Sep 22, 2002; ... One year ago for the Fall 2001 issue when this journal was still published by Kent State University Press, Carl Freedman wrote the lead essay that explored the two cultures of the arts and sciences. Now our publisher is the University of Texas at Brownsville & Texas Southmost College, and ...
London as science fiction: a note on some images from Johnson, Blake, Wordsworth, Dickens, and Orwell.
Sep 22, 2002; ... My beginning premise is that--as Georg Lukacs, in The Historical Novel (1937), was probably the first to articulate--history in the modern Western sense is an invention of the era of the American and French Revolutions and the Napoleonic wars (see Lukacs, 23ff.). The politics of the ...
Through the looking glass: Victor Frankenstein and Robert Owen.
Sep 22, 2002; ... Robert Owen (1771-1858) was a philanthropic mill owner of the era of the Industrial Revolution, who became so immersed in social reform that he abandoned business, and by the end of his life was hailed as the "Father of Socialism." Victor Frankenstein was the fictional maker of the ...
The New York Nexus and American Science Fiction in the postwar period.
Sep 22, 2002; ... In 1999 Elizabeth Cummins published an article in these pages, "American SF, 1940s-1950s: Where's the book? The New York Nexus." This article is a response to Cummins. (1) The short answer to her question, "Where's the book?" is that I'm writing it. The long answer goes something like ...
Reading on the frontier: a Star Trek bibliography.(Bibliography)
Sep 22, 2002; ... When I originally set upon my research for my M.A. I had no idea of the extent to which Star Trek had been analysed and critiqued by journalists, critics and academics. After some initial hesitation as to whether I should continue studying Star Trek for my final dissertation, I ...
Herons, ringtrees, and mud: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Eye of the Heron.(Critical Essay)
Sep 22, 2002; ... In her far-ranging study Dancing with Dragons: Ursula K. Le Guin and the Critics, Donna R. White notes Kathleen Spencer's handling of The Eye of the Heron in Spencer's 1980 study of "Exiles and Envoys" in Foundation, and we are sure White was aware of the discussion of Eye in chapter 8 of ...
Somebody stole my gal: word cluster analysis of exogamy fears in Stoker's Dracula.(Critical Essay)
Sep 22, 2002; ... What if the only knowledge of England and its kings available was Shakespeare's Richard III? Indeed, suppose that this text were accepted uncritically as fact. And, to top it off, imagine the picture that would emerge of England if this were the only information in most people's minds ...
Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
Sep 22, 2002 ... To Extrapolation, on 10/18/02 Your note in your issue of Summer 2002 on the presentation of papers at WisCon next Memorial Day Weekend prompts me, as a member of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society, Inc., to point out that our own Balticon 37 is held on that same weekend in ...
A Preface to H.G. Wells & The Correspondence of H.G. Wells. .(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2002; ... John Hammond. A Preface to H. G. Wells. Harlow, U.K.: Longman, 2001. 216 pp. $15.95. David C. Smith, ed. The Correspondence of H. G. Wells. 4 vols. London: Pickering & Chatto, 1998. 1900 pp. $450.00. In his short story "Buffalo" (1991), John Kessel presents an ...
Narrating Utopia: Ideology, Gender, Form in Utopian Literature. .(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2002; ... Chris Ferns, Narrating Utopia: Ideology, Gender, Form in Utopian Literature. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1999. 268 Pp. $48.95. Sometimes I dream of utopia, of a perfect world--one in which, for example, I don't have to teach nine classes a year, most of them ...
Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. .(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2002; ... David Lavery and Rhonda V. Wilcox, eds, Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Lanham, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002. 320 pp. $24.95. Once again, pop culture meets the parenthetical in this compilation of critical studies focusing on the ...
The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction. .(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2002; ... Justine Larbalestier. The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2002. 310 pp. $50 cloth, $19.95 paper. In the Introduction to her study The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction, Justine Larbalestier writes, "The period from 1926 to ...