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Foundation:
The International Review of Science Fiction
Number 79, Summer 2000
CONTENTS
Guest Editorial:
John Clute, on John Sladek (1937-2000)Features
- Andrew M. Butler: "Certain Thems": John Sladek's Critical Robots
- Suzette Haden Elgin, with Dunja Mohr: The Profession of Science Fiction, 53: Towards a Society of Non-violence
- Val Gough, Candas Jane Dorsey, Dunja Mohr and Farah Mendlesohn: Commentaries on Native Tongue
- Brian Stableford: The Final Chapter of the Sociology of Science Fiction
- Andy Duncan: It's all SF: Science Fiction, Southern Fiction, and the Case of Murray Leinster
- David Ketterer: "Vivisection": Schoolboy "John Wyndham"'s First Publication?
Letter
Rob Latham: Dozois and the Posthuman
Reviews
- Mark Bould: Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
- Douglas Barbour: Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
- Andy Sawyer: Satan is a Mathematician by Keith Allen Daniels
- K.V. Bailey: White Mars by Brian Aldiss with Roger Penrose
- Brian Baker: Greetings, Carbon-based Bipeds! by Arthur C. Clarke
- Jon Courtenay Grimwood: Teranesia by Greg Egan
- Douglas Barbour: Starfish by Peter Watts
- Paul Kincaid: Metal Fatigue by Sean Williams
- Gwyneth Jones: All Tomorrow's Parties by William Gibson
- L..J. Hurst: The Extremes by Christopher Priest
- David Mathew: Mara and Dann by Doris Lessing
- Farah Mendlesohn: Demand My Writing by Jeanne Cortiel
- Brian Baker: The Twist by Richard Calder
- Nick Gevers: Strange Travelers by Gene Wolfe
- K.V. Bailey: On Blue's Waters by Gene Wolfe
- David Mathew: Fantastic Tales by Jack London
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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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