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Article: Islands in the Sky: The Space Station Theme in Modern Science Fiction.(Review)
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- Utopian Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 1998
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Gary Westfahl. Islands in the Sky: The Space Station Theme in Modern Science Fiction.
San Bernardino: Borgo P, 1996. 224 pp. $33.00 (cloth); $23.00 (paper).
Westfahl, on of the leading scholars of science fiction, is no stranger to controversy, and this book invites it from the very beginning, thanks to the "polemical introduction" with which it opens, critical of the whole current procedure of science fiction criticism and thus of many of its practitioners. Westfahl points out that much of science fiction--particularly American magazine science fiction (which dominated the field from the 1920s to the early 1960s)--is a conversation, in which authors ...