The days are happily long gone when science fiction (SF) novels had to be published with an apologetic reference on their covers to 'what is unhappily known as "science fiction"', as was the case with the 1950s Penguin editions of John Wyndham's works. (1) Now no justification is needed; Wyndham's novels are currently appearing in the Penguin Modern Classics series. More is involved in this development than the canonization of an important author. Over recent decades SF has moved from the margins of our culture to a position of centrality. The American novelist Thomas M. Disch has argued that SF's 'basic repertory of images--rocket ships and robots, aliens and dinosaurs--are ...

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