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Contents:

• viii - Preface and Notes on Contributors (SF Studies) - (1976) - essay by R. D. Mullen
• xiii - The Significant Context of SF: A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation - (1976) - essay by Darko Suvin
• 1 - On the Structural Analysis of Science Fiction - (1973) - essay by Stanislaw Lem (trans. of Od strukturalizmu do tradycjonalizmu) [as by Stanislaw Lem]
• 8 - Towards an Aesthetic of Science Fiction - (1975) - essay by Joanna Russ
• 16 - The Time-Travel Story and Related Matters of SF Structuring - (1974) - essay by Stanislaw Lem (variant of The Time Travel Story and Related Matters of SF Structuring) [as by Stanislaw Lem]
• 28 - Generic Discontinuities in SF: Aldiss' Starship - (1976) - essay by Fredric Jameson
• 40 - Sunken Atlantis and the Utopia Question - (1976) - essay by C. R. La Bossiere and R. D. Mullen
• 48 - On an Essay by James Blish - (1976) - essay by Franz Rottensteiner
• 50 - A Reply to Mr Rottensteiner - (1976) - essay by James Blish
• 52 - Surveying the Battlefield - (1976) - essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 54 - A Response from a Marxist - (1976) - essay by H. Bruce Franklin
• 56 - Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis - (1976) - essay by Chan Davis [as by Chandler Davis]
• 58 - Playing Around with Creation: Philip Jose Farmer - (1976) - essay by Franz Rottensteiner
• 62 - SF Writers, the Great Consensus, and Non-Alignment - (1976) - essay by Darko Suvin
• 64 - A Reaction to SFS #2 - (1976) - essay by Damon Knight
• 65 - Novels by Brunner and Levin - (1976) - essay by Robert Scholes
• 66 - A Dialogue Betweeen Ideaphilos and Philologos (Intended to Prove Little and Clarify Much) - (1976) - essay by Robert M. Philmus
• 69 - What Do You Mean - Marxism ? - (1976) - essay by Mack Reynolds
• 70 - In Rebuttal - (1976) - essay by Franz Rottensteiner
• 71 - In Retrospect - essay by Fredric Jameson
• 75 - A Response to Damon Knight - (1976) - essay by Franz Rottensteiner
• 76 - Radical Rhapsody and Romantic Recoil in the Age of Anticipation: A Chapter in the History of SF - (1976) - essay by Darko Suvin
• 91 - Dreams and Doctrines in Frankenstein - (1976) - essay by Aija Ozolins
• 100 - The SF of H. H. Rosny the Elder - (1976) - essay by J.-P. Vernier
• 108 - Childhood's End: A Median Stage of Adolescence - (1976) - essay by David N. Samuelson
• 121 - Utopian and Fantastic Dualities in Robert Graves's Watch the North Wind Rise - (1976) - essay by Robert H. Canary
• 128 - Nabokov's Ada as Science Fiction - (1976) - essay by Roy Arthur Swanson
• 141 - Seeking Only Man: Language and Ethics in Solaris - (1976) - essay by Edward Balcerzan
• 146 - Wholeness and Balance: An Addendum - (1976) - essay by Douglas Barbour
• 155 - On Norman Spinrad's The Iron Dream - (1976) - essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 159 - Introductory Note to The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick - (1976) - essay by Darko Suvin
• 160 - The Manuscripts and Books of Philip K. Dick - (1976) - essay by R. D. Mullen and Willis E. McNelly
• 164 - P. K. Dick's Opus: Artifice as Refuge and World View (Introductory Reflections) - (1976) - essay by Darko Suvin
• 178 - Foreword to The Preserving Machine - (1976) - essay by Philip K. Dick
• 180 - Dick and Meta-SF - (1976) - essay by Carlo Pagetti
• 187 - After Armageddon: Character Systems in Dr. Bloodmoney - (1976) - essay by Fredric Jameson
• 198 - Dick's Maledictory Web: About and Around Martian Timeslip - (1976) - essay by Brian W. Aldiss
• 203 - Ubik: The Deconstruction of Bourgeois SF - (1975) - essay by Peter Fitting
• 210 - Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans - (1975) - essay by Stanislaw Lem (trans. of Poslowie do "Ubika" Ph. Dicka) [as by Stanislaw Lem]
• 223 - Le Guin's Lathe of Heaven and the Role of Dick: The False Reality as Mediator - (1976) - essay by Ian Watson
• 232 - A Response to Dr. Lem - (1976) - essay by Damon Knight
• 233 - Introductory Note to The Science Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin - (1976) - essay by Darko Suvin
• 234 - Ursula K. Le Guin: A Select Bibliography - (1976) - essay by Jeff Levin
• 238 - American SF and The Other - (1975) - essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 240 - An Approach to the Structure of Le Guin's SF - (1976) - essay by Rafail Nudelman
• 251 - World Reduction in Le Guin: The Emergence of Utopian Narrative - (1976) - essay by Fredric Jameson
• 261 - The Forest as Metaphor for Mind: "The Word for World is Forest" and "Vaster Than Empires and More Slow" - (1976) - essay by Ian Watson
• 267 - Public and Private Imperatives in Le Guin's Novels - (1976) - essay by John Huntington
• 273 - The Politics of Le Guin's Opus - (1976) - essay by David L. Porter
• 278 - Wholeness and Balance in the Hainish Novels of Ursula K. Le Guin - (1976) - essay by Douglas Barbour
• 279 - Ambiguity in Utopia: The Dispossessed - (1976) - essay by Judah Bierman
• 286 - The Art of Social-Science Fiction: The Ambiguous Utopian Dialectics of Ursula K. Le Guin - (1976) - essay by Donald F. Teall
• 295 - Parables of De-Alienation: Le Guin's Widdershins Dance - (1976) - essay by Darko Suvin

Contents:

• 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 - essay by Alex Eisenstein
• 78 - Utopia and Epic: Ideological Confrontation in Jack London's The Iron Heel - 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 M. Samuelson
• 138 - Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" Novels: Historical Materialism Distorted into Cyclical Psycho-History - essay 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 - essay by Michael Stern
• 176 - The Future History and Development of the English Language - essay by Walter E. Meyers
• 189 - The Triumph of Prophecy: Science Fiction and Nuclear Power in the Post-Hiroshima Period - essay by Albert I. Berger
• 196 - J. G. Ballard and the Limits of Mainstream SF - essay by Charles Nicol
• 204 - The Surreal Translations of Samuel R. Delany - essay by Peter S. Alterman
• 214 - Cosmology and Science Fiction - essay by Stanislaw Lem [as by Stanislaw Lem]
• 217 - Stanislaw Lem, Rationalist and Visionary - essay by Jerzy Jarzebski
• 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
• 254 - An Approach to the Social Functions of American SF - essay 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
• 321 - A Select Bibliography of the Sociology of Literature - essay by Marc Angenot