Extrapolation back issues from March 2006:
Acknowledgements: golden age death.
Mar 22, 2006; ... This issue is a new departure for the journal. We will publish now only three issues per year--spring, summer, fall--each a bit longer. It has also been a sad spring with the deaths of Octavia E. Butler and Stanislaw Lem coming a little less than a month apart. We had at hand the fine ...
Science fiction and the playing fields of Eaton.(J. Lloyd Eaton)(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Note: this essay was originally written to serve as the afterword in a projected collection of essays from the first ten years of the Eaton Conference. In its early years, I experienced the J. Lloyd Eaton Conferences on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, long held every ...
About Delany writing: an anatomical meditation.(Samuel Delany)(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2006; ... The number of books and essays that offer instruction in the art of writing is vast. The number written by authors who have themselves produced work of genuine literary distinction is much smaller; and the number written by authors with a record of distinction comparable to that made by ...
To remember Stanislaw Lem.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Stanislaw Lem, Polish fiction writer, critic, and polymath, died in March 2006, in his 85th year. This major writer needs remembering and critical honoring. One may easily find an overview of his principal works on his homepage www.lem.pl/, in the many obituaries, and in my own 1995 ...
"The girl isn't white": new racial dimensions in Octavia Butler's Survivor.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Since the publication of her first novel, Octavia Butler's popularity has increased, making her now a staple for individuals attracted to the fiction of Afro-futurism. Sandra Govan argues that Butler "forge[s] a black presence in science fiction," a presence that consistently challenges ...
Feminism, technology, and art in C. L. Moore's "No Woman Born".(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2006; ... "No Woman Born," first published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1944, is certainly one of the best sf stories of the 1940s and just as certainly the best feminist sf story of that decade and perhaps for nearly the next two decades as well--its first rivals are stories that begin to ...
Robert A. Heinlein: reinventing series SF in the 1950s (1).(science fiction)(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the inventor and, especially, the mechanical engineer were heroic figures in the American cultural worldview. Such men, for most of them were men, carried the Industrial Revolution forward in western Europe and North America in ...
Freud in the future: work in German science fiction.(Sigmund Freud)
Mar 22, 2006; ... <Pre> It is not possible, within the limits of a short survey, to discuss adequately the significance of work for the economics of the libido. No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least ...
Big Dumb Objects in science fiction: sublimity, banality, and modernity.
Mar 22, 2006; ... <Pre> My book will have the ability to walk straight on a hair, suspended between the double abyss of lyricism and vulgarity. --Flaubert (1) </Pre> Novels about human encounters with so-called Big Dumb Objects expose certain underlying problems of SF with particular force. This ...
Wonder down under: Australian sci-fi 1948-52.
Mar 22, 2006; ... The virtual banning of American pulp magazines fostered a publishing climate which, for the first time, allowed the Australian publishing industry to flourish. Suddenly local authors and artists found a ready market for their material as publishers clamored for original fiction. One of the ...
Love's fantastic voyage: crossing between science fiction and romantic comedy in Innerspace.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2006; ... <Pre> "Play with it pal, but don't talk to it." --Stranger to Jack in the men's restroom, Innerspace [1987] </Pre> Robert Lang's Masculine Interests: Homoerotics in Hollywood Film (2002), the only previous scholarly work to examine Innerspace (Joe Dante, 1987), focuses on the ...
The invisible friends: The Lost Worlds of Henry James and H. G. Wells.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2006; ... <Pre> I had the queer feeling that we were both incompatibly right. --H. G. Wells Experiment in Autobiography </Pre> In this essay, I hope to shed light on two lost worlds: a lost literary friendship and a loss of potential for the novel. The friendship of Henry James and H. G ....
A platinum moment for Frederik Pohl: from Golden pulp to steely.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2006; ... A Futurian storyteller from that highly-political decade of the 1930s who has learned art and who has lived long enough to watch politics and affairs change and change again can represent well the particular mixed nature of science fiction--the genre of pulp involvements and of art. For my ...
Letter.(Letter to the editor)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Dear Editor, We at Foundation thoroughly enjoyed issue 46/3, Mike Levy's collection of essays on multiculturalism and race in science fiction but we were a bit taken aback to read in the editorial that in journals including Foundation, "the same subjects tend to appear over and ...
Jacking in to the Matrix Franchise: Cultural Reception and Interpretation.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Matthew Kapell and William G. Doty, editors. Jacking in to the Matrix Franchise: Cultural Reception and Interpretation. New York and London: Continuum, 2004. 215 pp. $19.95 paperback. This volume of essays is an example of the ways in which the scholarly examination of a popular ...
Christopher Priest: The Interaction.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Andrew M. Butler, ed. Christopher Priest: The Interaction. London: Science Fiction Foundation, 2005. 185 pp. [pounds sterling]13 pbk. Mark Bould and Michelle Reid, eds. Parietal Games: Critical Writings by and on M. John Harrison. London: Science Fiction Foundation, 2005. 357 ...
The Monster in the Mirror: Looking for H.P. Lovecraft.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Robert H. Waugh. The Monster in the Mirror: Looking for H. P. Lovecraft. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2006. 302pp. $20.00 paper. Over the last twenty years, Robert Waugh, an English professor at the State University of New York--New Paltz, has been one of the most prolific ...
The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn. The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003 295 pp. Cloth: $60, paper: $24.99 The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction is the book we've been waiting impatiently for without knowing it. One we can ...
Conversations with Isaac Asimov.(World Weavers: Globalization, Science Fiction, and the Cybernetic Revolution)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Carl Freedman, editor. Conversations with Isaac Asimov. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2005. 170 + xxvi pp. $50 cloth, $20 paper. Wong Kin Yuen, Gary Westfahl, and Amy Kit Sze Chan, editors. World Weavers: Globalization, Science Fiction, and the Cybernetic ...