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NICHOLAS RUDDICK: Publications (March 2015) NICHOLAS RUDDICK: Publications (March 2015) 1. Books as Author (In press) Science Fiction Adapted to Film. Canterbury, UK: Gylphi Limited. The Fire in the Stone: Prehistoric Fiction from Charles Darwin to Jean M. Auel. [Early Classics of Science Fiction.] Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2009. xx + 266 pp. Ultimate Island: On the Nature of British Science Fiction. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 1993. xi + 202 pp. British Science Fiction: A Chronology, 1478-1990. New York, Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 1992. xxvi + 250 pp. Christopher Priest. [Starmont Reader’s Guide #50.] Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1989. x + 104 pp. [From 1993 distributed by Borgo Press, San Bernardino, CA.] 2. Books as Editor The Call of the Wild. By Jack London. 1903. [Broadview Editions.] Peterborough, ON and Buffalo, NY: Broadview Press, 2009. 213 pp. The Woman Who Did. By Grant Allen. 1895. [Broadview Editions.] Peterborough, ON and Orchard Park, NY: Broadview Press, 2004. 238 pp. Caesar’s Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century. By Ignatius Donnelly. 1890. [Early Classics of Science Fiction.] Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003. lvii + 278 pp. The Time Machine: An Invention. By H.G. Wells. 1895. [Broadview Literary Texts.] Peterborough, ON and Orchard Park, NY: Broadview Press, 2001. 294 pp. State of the Fantastic: Studies in the Theory and Practice of Fantastic Literature and Film. [Selected Essays from the Eleventh International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, 1990]. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 1992. xvi + 210 pp. 3. Guest Edition of Scholarly Journal Doris Lessing Special Issue of Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 2.3 (Fall 1989). [Includes “Introduction,” pp. 2-4]. 1 4. Chapters and Parts of Books “Embodiment Problems: Adapting Solaris to Film.” In Peter Swirski and Waclaw M. Osadnik, eds., Lemography: Stanislaw Lem in the Eyes of the World. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2014. 65-92. “‘Tell Us All about Little Rosebery’: Topicality and Temporality in H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine.” Reprint of 2001 journal article, with a new afterword. In Vintage Visions: Essays on Early Science Fiction. Ed. Arthur B. Evans. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2014. 217-39. “Descent Ramp: Revisiting J.G. Ballard’s Crash and Its Film Adaptation by David Cronenberg.” In Science Fiction across Media: Adaptation/Novelization. Eds. Thomas Van Parys and I.Q. Hunter. Canterbury, UK: Gylphi Limited, 2013. 135-50. “Back to the Filthy Workshop: ‘Faithful’ Film Adaptations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.” In Parabolas of Science Fiction. Eds. Brian Attebery and Veronica Hollinger. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013. 180-201. “Adapting the Absurd Apocalypse: Eugene Burdick’s and Harvey Wheeler’s Fail-Safe and Its Cinematic Progeny.” In Future Wars: The Anticipations and the Fears. Ed. David Seed. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2012. 161-79. “Science Fiction.” In The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction: Vol. 1: Twentieth-Century British and Irish Fiction. Ed. Brian W. Shaffer. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 332-36. “Living in Fictitious Times: Michael Moore’s Awful Truth about America.” In I Sing the Body Politic: History as Prophecy in Contemporary American Literature. Ed. Peter Swirski. Montréal and Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009. 149-81. “Teaching Wilde’s Fairy Tales: Aestheticism as Social and Cultural Critique in ‘The Happy Prince’ and ‘The Nightingale and the Rose.’” In Approaches to Teaching the Works of Oscar Wilde. Ed. Philip E. Smith II. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2008. 93-99. “Quiebras en el devenir del tiempo: unión y desunión en los ciclos de relatos de Keith Roberts (segunda parte).” Trad. Luis G. Prado. In Jabberwock 2: Anuario de ensayo fantástico. Eds. Arturo Villarrubia and Alberto García-Teresa. Madrid: Bibliópolis, 2007. 51-68. Translation into Spanish of second of three journal articles published in 1989-90. “The Fantastic Fiction of the Fin de Siècle.” In The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle. Ed. Gail Marshall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 189-206. 2 “The Search for a Quantum Ethics: Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen and Other Recent British Science Plays.” Anatomy of Science Fiction. Ed. Donald E. Morse. Newcastle-on-Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006. 109-23. See journal articles. “1987: The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood: Twisted Sister at the Royal Danish Theatre.” In The Arthur C. Clarke Award: A Critical Anthology. Ed. Paul Kincaid with Andrew M. Butler. Preface by Neil Gaiman. Daventry, UK: Serendip Foundation, 2006. 17-29. “Quiebras en el devenir del tiempo: unión y desunión en los ciclos de relatos de Keith Roberts (primera parte).” Trad. Luis G. Prado. In Jabberwock 1: anuario de ensayo fantástico. Ed. Arturo Villarrubia. Madrid: Bibliópolis, 2005. 181-207. Translation into Spanish of first of three journal articles published in 1989-90. “Reticence and Ostentation in Christopher Priest’s Later Novels: The Quiet Woman and The Prestige.” In Christopher Priest: The Interaction. Ed. Andrew M. Butler. London: The Science Fiction Foundation, 2005. 79-96. “‘The Peculiar Quality of My Genius’: Degeneration, Decadence, and Dorian Gray in 1890-91.” In Oscar Wilde: The Man, His Writings, and His World. Ed. Robert N. Keane. New York: AMS Press, 2003. 125-37. “Another Key to Bluebeard’s Chamber: Ideal and Fundamentalist Masculinity in the Literature of Fantasy.” In Images of Masculinity in Fantasy Literature. Eds. Susanne Fendler and Ulrike Horstmann. [Studies in Comparative Literature, Vol. 57.] Lewiston, NY, Queenston, ON, and Lampeter, UK: Edwin Mellen Press, 2003. 1-17. “Ballard/Crash/Baudrillard.” In Jean Baudrillard. Ed. Mike Gane. 4 vols. Thousand Oaks, CA and London: Sage, 2000. 12-19. “Grant Allen.” In British Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Before World War I. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 178. Ed. Darren Harris-Fain. Detroit, Washington, DC and London: Gale, 1997. 7-16. “The Brood of Mary: Brian Aldiss, Frankenstein, and Science Fiction.” In The Dark Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Ninth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Ed. C.W. Sullivan III. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 1997. 77-84. “Introduction: Learning to Resist the Wolf.” In State of the Fantastic: Studies in the Theory and Practice of Fantastic Literature and Film. [Selected Essays from the Eleventh International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, 1990]. Ed. Nicholas Ruddick. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 1992. xiii-xvi. “The Brood of Mary: Brian Aldiss, Frankenstein, and Science Fiction.” In Bury My Heart at W.H. Smith’s: A Writing Life. By Brian Aldiss. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1990: 209-21. 3 5. Journal Articles “Courtship with a Club: Wife-Capture in Prehistoric Fiction, 1865-1914.” Yearbook of English Studies 37.2 (2007): 45-63. “Sexual Paradise Regained? C.J. Cutcliffe Hyne’s New Eden Project.” Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction 98 (Autumn 2006): 74-84. “‘Not So Very Blue, after All’: Resisting the Temptation to Correct Charles Perrault’s ‘Bluebeard.’” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 15.4 (Winter 2004): 346-57. “The Ripper Naturalized : Gynecidal Mania in Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata and Zola’s La Bête Humaine.” Excavatio: International Review for Multidisciplinary Approaches and Comparative Studies Related to Emile Zola and His Time 14.1-2 (2001): 181-93. “‘Tell Us All about Little Rosebery’: Topicality and Temporality in H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine.” Science Fiction Studies 28.3 (November 2001): 337-54. “The Search for a Quantum Ethics: Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen and Other Recent British Science Plays.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 11.4 (2001): 415-31. Reprinted by arrangement of the editors. “The Search for a Quantum Ethics: Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen and Other Recent British Science Plays.” Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 6.1 (Spring 2000): 119-37. Reprinted in Drama Criticism, ed. Jelena O. Krstovic. Vol. 27. Detroit: Gale, 2006. 119-137. “Nellie Bly, Jules Verne, and the World on the Threshold of the American Age.” Canadian Review of American Studies 29.1 (1999): 1-11. Reprinted in Children’s Literature Review, ed. Scot Peacock. Vol. 88. Detroit: Gale, 2003. 1-11. “Life and Death by Electricity in 1890: The Transfiguration of William Kemmler.” Journal of American Culture 21.4 (Winter 1998): 79-87. “Putting the Bits together: Information Theory, Neuromancer, and Science Fiction.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 3.3/4 (1994): 84-92. “Ballard/Crash/Baudrillard.” Science-Fiction Studies 19.3 (November 1992): 354-60. Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism Select. Detroit: Gale. 354-360. “Is There Any British Science Fiction? A Serious Inquiry.” New York Review of Science Fiction 40 (December 1991): 1, 8-11. “Flaws in the Timestream: Unity and Disunity in Keith Roberts’s Story-Cycles: Conclusion.” Foundation 47 (Winter 1989/90): 33-42. 4 “Flaws in the Timestream: Unity and Disunity in Keith Roberts’s Story-Cycles: Part Two.” Foundation 46 (Autumn 1989): 14-26. Translated into Spanish 2007. “Flaws in the Timestream: Unity and Disunity in Keith Roberts’s Story-Cycles.” Foundation 45 (Spring 1989): 38-49. Translated into Spanish 2005. “Keeping the Torch Burning: An Interview with Doris Lessing.” Wascana Review 23.2 (Fall 1988): 3-13. Reprinted in Wascana Review of Contemporary Poetry and Short Fiction: [Thirty Year Retrospective: 1966-1996] 32.2 (Spring 1997): 126-35. “Philip Larkin’s ‘High Windows’.” Explicator 46.4 (Summer 1988): 41-43. “Deep Waters: The Significance of the Deluge in Science Fiction.” Foundation 42 (Spring 1988): 49-59. “Out of the Gernsbackian Slime: Christopher Priest’s Abandonment of Science Fiction.” Modern Fiction Studies 32.1 (Spring 1986): 43-52. “A New Historiography of the Self: Robert Lowell’s History as History.” Wascana Review 20.2 (Fall 1985): 3-15. “The World Turned inside out: Decoding Arthur C.
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