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Foundation:

The International Review of Science Fiction

Number 72, Spring 1998

CONTENTS

Editorial

  • Edward James

Features

  • Suzy McKee Charnas, with Ildney Cavalcanti: The Profession of Science Fiction, 52: A Literature of Unusual Ideas
  • Douglas Barbour: The Violent Logic of Late Capitalism: Jack Womack's Sf
  • Michael M. Levy: Ophelia Triumphant: The Survival of Adolescent Girls in Recent Fiction by Butler and Womack
  • Joan Gordon: Two Sf Diaries at the Intersection of Subjunctive Hopes and Declarative Despair
  • Rebecca J. Holden: The High Costs of Cyborg Survival: Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis Trilogy
  • Andrew Osmond: Nausicaa and the Fantasy of Hayao Miyazaki
  • Andrew M. Butler: Modelling Sf: Fred Pfeil's Embarrassment
  • Ahrvid Engholm: A Magazine of the Fantastic from 1682
  • Cornel Robu: Great SF Short Fiction, 4: "Kyrie" by Poul Anderson

Letters

  • Steve Jeffrey: On Foundation 70
  • Antony Croghan: George Hay and the Foundation

Reviews

  • Gwyneth Jones: Diaspora by Greg Egan
  • Douglas Barbour: Phoenix Cafe and Seven Tales and a Fable by Gwyneth Jones
  • Paul J. McAuley: Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman by Walter M. Miller Jr.
  • Brian Baker: Mainline by Deborah Christian
  • Gary Westfahl: Lightpaths by Howard V. Hendrix
  • L.J. Hurst: Think Like a Dinosaur by James Patrick Kelly
  • David Seed: Political Science Fiction ed. Donald M. Hassler and Clyde Wilcox
  • Chris Gilmore: Cultural Babbage ed. Francis Spufford and Jenny Uglow
  • Andy Sawyer: Recent titles published by Borgo Press
  • plus Notes on Books by Moorcock and Druillet, Ballard, Strathern, Grant and Tiner, Straczynski and Hall

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Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature
A collection of essays on Terry Pratchett, published in May 2000


The Parliament of Dreams: Conferring on Babylon 5
The first volume of critical studies of the acclaimed television series Babylon 5, published in August 1998
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Welcome to the World Wide Web Home Page of the Science Fiction Foundation! This site offers links and information about our aims and objectives, and information on our special collection and library located at the University of Liverpool. Our research library is the largest resource of sf and sf-related material in the UK, and supports an MA in Science Fiction Studies. The Science Fiction Collections at Liverpool are administered by Andy Sawyer. The University of Liverpool also holds the The John Wyndham Archive and the Olaf Stapledon Archive. The Science Fiction Foundation publishes Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction: the essential critical journal of sf.
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