• Publication: Science Fiction Studies, Second Series: Selected Articles on Science Fiction 1976-1977Publication Record # 211705
• Authors: R. D. Mullen, Darko Suvin
• Date: 1978-06-00
• ISBN: 0-8398-2444-0 [978-0-8398-2444-2]
• Publisher: Gregg Press
• Price:
  $15.00^?$: US dollar
• Pages: xiv+335
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NONFICTION
• Notes: No dust jacket, as issued. Red buckram with titles in gold on black background. No printed price. Price from Gregg Press catalog. Photographic reprint of the

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• vii • Introduction (Science Fiction Studies, Second Series: Selected Articles on Science Fiction 1976-1977) • essay by Marc Angenot
• x • Notes on Contributors • essay by uncredited
• 1 • Lucian's True History as SF • essay by S. C. Fredericks
• 13 • Iambulus' Islands of the Sun and Hellenistic Literary Utopias • essay by David Winston
• 22 • The True, the False, and the Truly False: Lucian's Philosophical Science Fiction • essay by Roy Arthur Swanson
• 33 • The Alternate Islands: A Chapter in the History of SF, with a Select Bibliography of the SF of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance • essay by Darko Suvin
• 42 • The Reading and Writing of Utopia in Denis Diderot's Supplement au voyage de Bougainville • essay by Christie V. McDonald
• 48 • German Theories of Science Fiction: Jean Paul, Kurd Lasswitz, and After • essay by William B. Fischer
• 59 • Wells in Three Volumes? A sketch of British Publishing in the 19th Century • essay by George Locke
• 64 • News from Nowhere, The Time Machine and the Break-up of Classical Realism • essay by Patrick Parrinder
• 74 • The Time Machine and the End of Man • (1976) • essay by Alex Eisenstein
• 78 • Utopia and Epic: Ideological Confrontation in Jack London's The Iron Heel • (1976) • essay by Nadia Khouri
• 86 • Science Fiction and Allied Literature • essay by David Ketterer
• 97 • Mythic Structure in Cordwainer Smith's "The Game of Rat and Dragon" • essay by Gary K. Wolfe
• 104 • Invisible Men and Women: The Disappearance of Character in Science Fiction • essay by Scott Russell Sanders [as by Scott Sanders]
• 115 • The Lost Canticles of Walter M. Miller, Jr. • essay by David N. Samuelson
• 138 • Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" Novels: Historical Materialism Distorted into Cyclical Psycho-History • essay by Charles L. Elkins [as by Charles Elkins]
• 148 • Ursula K. Le Guin and the Decline of Romantic Love • essay by Robert Plank
• 155 • A Response to the Le Guin Issue • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 158 • From Technique to Critique: Knowledge and Human Interests in John Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar, The Jagged Orbit, and The Sheep Look Up • (1976) • essay by Michael Stern
• 176 • The Future History and Development of the English Language • (1976) • essay by Walter E. Meyers
• 189 • The Triumph of Prophecy: Science Fiction and Nuclear Power in the Post-Hiroshima Period • (1976) • essay by Albert I. Berger
• 196 • J. G. Ballard and the Limits of Mainstream SF • (1976) • essay by Charles Nicol
• 204 • The Surreal Translations of Samuel R. Delany • essay by Peter S. Alterman
• 214 • Cosmology and Science Fiction • (1977) • essay by
  Stanisław Lem^?Stanislaw Lem
  [as by Stanislaw Lem]
• 217 • Stanislaw Lem, Rationalist and Visionary • essay by
  Jerzy Jarzębski^?Jerzy Jarzebski
  (trans. of Stanisław Lem: racjonalista i zmysły 1975)
• 234 • Lem in Review (June 2238) • essay by Michael Kandel [as by Michael Kandel V]
• 238 • Introduction: The Sociology of Science Fiction • essay by Darko Suvin
• 243 • Discontent in American Science Fiction • essay by
  Gérard Klein^?Gerard Klein
• 254 • An Approach to the Social Functions of American SF • essay by Charles L. Elkins [as by Charles Elkins]
• 258 • Science-Fiction Fans in Socio-Economic Perspective: Factors in the Social Consciousness of a Genre • essay by Albert I. Berger
• 272 • English-Language SF as a Socio-Cultural Phenomenom • essay by A. E. Levin
• 282 • Reflections from West Germany on the Science-Fiction Market • essay by Dieter Hasselblatt
• 289 • The American SF Subculture • essay by Linda Fleming
• 297 • Violence in SF, and Censorship in West Germany • essay by Rudolf Stefen
• 303 • On SF Comics: Some Notes for a Future Encyclopedia • essay by Bernt Kling
• 309 • SF: A Publisher's View • essay by Wolfgang Jeschke
• 313 • Le Guin's "Aberrant" Opus: Escaping the Trap of Discontent • essay by
  Gérard Klein^?Gerard Klein
• 321 • A Select Bibliography of the Sociology of Literature • essay by Marc Angenot