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The International Review of Science Fiction
Number 85, Summer 2002
CONTENTS
Editorial
Farah Mendlesohn
Features
- Joe Haldeman: An Informal History of Science Fiction
- Mark Brake and Martin Griffiths: SETI, British Sf and the ET Meme
- Bridget Wilkinson: John Brunner's The Shockwave Rider: Worms, Fiction and Reality
- Martin Griffiths: Apocalypse: its Influence on Society and British Sf
- Brian Stableford: Resisting Panthea's Siren Song: Robert Hunt and the Poerty of Science
- Charles DePaolo: The Time Machine and the Descent of Man
- Patrick Parrinder: Back to the Far Future? Futures of Destiny and Desire in British Science Fiction
- Umberto Rossi: On a Background, Catastrophic, the Story, Ironic: Ecological Awareness and Capitalist Selfishness in Thomas M. Disch's On Wings of Song
- 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
- Giles Hart: The first time travel story?
Reviews
- Farah Mendlesohn: The Time Machines by Mike Ashley
- Roger Luckhurst: True Names and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier by Vernor Vinge, ed. James Frenkel
- Niels Dalgaard: The Year's Best Science Fiction, 18th Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
- L.J. Hurst: The Last War; A World Set Free by H.G. Wells
- Andy Sawyer: The Annotated H.G. Wells and Science Fiction From Wells to Heinlein by Leon Strover
- Paul Kincaid: 1984 by Samuel R. Delany
- Cheryl Morgan: Kiln People by David Brin and Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan
- Richard Jeffrey: The Telling by Ursula K. LeGuin
- David Mathew: The Pickup Artist by Terry Bisson
- Niels Dalgaard: Adventures in Space and Time with Max Merriwell by Pat Murphy
- Greg Beatty: The Evergence Trilogy by Sean Williams and Shane Dix
- Andy Sawyer: Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
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