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The International Review of Science Fiction

Number 84, Spring 2002

CONTENTS

Editorial

Farah Mendlesohn

Features

  • Barry Malzberg: The Profession of Science Fiction, 57: Cele Goldsmith Lalli - Furtheringthe True Unwritten History
  • Umberto Rossi: Ecological Awareness and Capitalist Shortsightedness in Thomas M. Disch's On Wings of Song
  • Debra Benita Shaw: "The Video Word Made Flesh": Spectacular Transgressions in David Cronenberg's Videodrome
  • Pat Wheeler: Metamorphoses of the Female Subject: Bodily Transformations in Carol Emshwiller's Carmen Dog and Linda Jaivin's Rock N Roll Babes from Outer Space
  • Justine Larbalestier: Introduction to the WisCon Papers
  • L. Timmel Duchamp: Reflections on Woman, Feminism and Science Fiction, 1818-1960: For a Genealogy on Feminist Sf
  • Lorna Jowett: Masculinity, Monstrosity and Behaviour Modification in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • Pamela Bedore: Slavery and Symbiosis in Octavia Butler's Kindred
  • Elizabeth Matson: The James Tiptree, Jr. Award: When a Man is a Woman - and It Doesn't Matter
  • Elisabeth Vonarburg: So You Want to Be a Science Fiction Writer?

Letter

  • Christopher West: Gallardo, Malzburg and Homosexual Orgies

Reviews

  • Paul Kincaid: Mappa Mundi by Justina Robson
  • Gwyneth Jones: Fantasy Girls edited by Elyce Rae Helford
  • L.J. Hurst: Origin: Manifold 3 by Stephen Baxter
  • K.V. Bailey: Omegatropic by Stephen Baxter
  • David Seed: Earth is But a Star edited by Damien Broderick
  • L.J. Hurst: A Good Old-Fashioned Future edited by Bruce Sterling
  • Nick Gevers: Eyes of the Calculor by Sean McMullen
  • K.V. Bailey: Jack Vance edited by A.E. Cunningham
  • Neal Baker: Dark Light by Ken MacLeod
  • Ken MacLeod: Whole Wide World by Paul McAuley
  • Cheryl Morgan: Something More by Paul Cornell and Bold As Love by Gwyneth Jones
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