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Ace Books 106; Ace Doubles 106; 217, 266, 267; Foundation 39, 236; Robot Ace Specials 72, 106 stories 172, 245; Three Laws 166–7 Adams, Douglas 203–4, 231 Astonishing Stories 37 Adorno, T. W. 117 Astounding (later Analog)xv, xvii, 3, 6, 32, adventure xvi, xvii, 3–4, 23, 25, 27, 197 37–41, 46, 50, 98–9, 102, 198, 211, 223 Air Wonder Stories 37 Atheling, William, Jr 45 Aldiss, Brian W. 9, 42, 53, 54, 61, 66, 101, Atkins, Francis Henry 22 107, 121, 203 Attebery, Brian 11, 59, 99, 241 Alien 132, 165, 183, 205 Atwood, Margaret 249 alienation 9–10 Avon Fantasy Reader 100 aliens 4, 33, 51–2, 60, 168–9 Allen, Grant 25 Babylon 5 88 alternate history 11, 209–18 Back to the Future 215–6 Amazing Stories xvi, 3, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, Bacon, Francis 15 37, 41, 44, 46, 97–8, 99, 101, 198 Baen, Jim 108, 193 Amis, Kingsley xv, 42, 61 Bailey, J. O. xvii Analog (and see Astounding) xvii, 50, 58, Ballantine Books 105–6, 107 186, 192, 193 Ballard, J. G. 10, 42, 53, 54, 55, 56, 61, 101, anarchism, anarchy 223, 230, 231, 238 121, 140, 144, 145, 190 Anderson, Gerry and Sylvia 83, 90 Banks, Iain [M.] 66, 75, 146, 206, 207, 226, Anderson, Poul 57–8, 176, 190, 192, 202, 266, 272 237 Bantam Books 106 Andreae, Johann Valentin 15, 19 Barnes, John 2, 170, 269, 272, 274 android (andy) 167 Barthes, Roland 61, 62 Angel 168 Bates, Harry 98 Angenot, Marc 117 Battle of the Sexes 243, 247 anthologies 46, 54, 102–5 Baudelaire, Charles 20 anti-communism 85–6, 115 Baudrillard, Jean 142–4, 146, 147 anti-science ﬁction 15 Baxter, Stephen 2, 66, 76, 164, 177, 191, Arabian Nights 17 194 Aristotle 230 Bear, Greg 66, 76–7, 177, 178, 190, 192, Arnason, Eleanor Ring of Swords 132–3, 155 205; Blood Music 76–7, 171–2, 179, 227; Arnold, Edwin Lester 26 Darwin’s Radio 178 Arnold, Jack 86 Beckett, Samuel 137 Aronica, Lou 108 Bellamy, Edward 29, 79, 114, 223–4 Ashley, Mike xviii, 36 Benford, Gregory 60, 108, 171, 187, 188, Asimov, Isaac 10, 38, 40, 46, 53, 54, 55, 60, 190, 192, 193, 205, 216 62, 67, 69, 73, 99, 105, 189, 193, 201, Benjamin, Walter 117

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Beresford, J. D. 27, 175, 176 Bull, Emma, Bone Dance 130–1, 251 Besant, Walter 25 Bulmer, Kenneth 101, 104 Besson, Luc 91 Bulwer-Lytton, Edward 19, 22, 34 Bester, Alfred 32, 41, 43, 51, 100 Bunch, David R. 101 Bethke, Bruce 67 Burke, Edmund 230 Bethune,´ Chevalier de 17 Burroughs, Edgar Rice xv, 29–30, 31, 32, 97, Bierce, Ambrose 20 98, 192, 265, 267 Bilderdijk, Willem 18 Burroughs, William 53, 101, 137, 141, 146, Binder, Eando 36 194 biology 174–85, 195 Bush, George H. W. 187 Bishop, Michael 108 Butler, Judith 125, 158 Bisson, Terry 274 Butler, Octavia E. 67, 123, 145, 182; Bixby, Jerome 43, 165 ‘Bloodchild’ 129–30, 183; Kindred 258–9, Blade Runner (see Scott, Ridley) 71, 142, 261; Parable books 120; Xenogenesis 146, 147, 167 trilogy 130, 178, 249, 271 Blair, Andrew 23 Butler, Samuel 22, 236 Blake, William 43, 142 Byrne, Jeremy 104 Blavatsky, H. P. 176 Bleiler, Everett F. xvii, 103, 105 Cadigan, Pat 72, 166, 211–12, 250 Blish, James 38, 41, 45, 51, 54, 61; A Case of Callenbach, Ernest 226 Conscience 268 Calvino, Italo 115 Bloch, Ernst 117, 119 Cameron, James 93 Bolsheviks 234 Campanella, Tommaso 15 Borel, Pierre 16 Campbell, John W. Jr xvii, 6, 10, 37–41, Borges, Jorge Luis 70, 137 43, 50, 52, 58, 96, 99, 102, 103, Boucher, Anthony xvii, 41, 99, 100, 102, 186, 188, 189, 200, 201, 211, 222, 167 223, 265 Bova, Ben 58, 192 Campbell Memorial Awards 59 Brackett, Leigh 128, 201 canon 1–2, 10, 103 Bradbury, Ray 41, 43, 53, 100, 103, 105, Canterbury Tales 138 106, 192; The Martian Chronicles 256–7, Capek,ˇ Karel 45, 84, 166 258 Captain Future 200 Bradbury, Walter 105, 107 Card, Orson Scott 76, 263, 274; Alvin Bradley, Marion Zimmer 59, 128, 151, 250, Maker series 215; Pastwatch 258, 271 259–61; Speaker for the Dead 265–6, 274; Brecht, Berthold 118 Xenocide 170, 177 Bretonne, Restif de la 17 Carlyle, Thomas 216 Breuer, Miles J. 37 Carnell, John 53, 101, 104 Brin, David 66–73, 77, 183, 191, 205 Carpenter, John 93 Britain, sf in 42 Carr, Jayge 249 Broderick, Damien 11, 105 Carr, Terry 55, 72, 104, 106, 107 Brown, Charles xv Carson, Rachel 183 Brown, Dena xv Carter, Raphael 251 Brown, Steve 138 Cartier, Rudolph 89 Brunner, John 42, 53, 59, 101 Cavendish, Margaret 15 Brussof, Valery 28 Cawelti, John 33 Buck Rogers 200 Chandler, Raymond 141 Budrys, Algis [A. J.] 43, 53 Charnas, Suzy McKee 125, 128, 182, 248 Buffy the Vampire Slayer 168, 172, 273 Cheap Truth 193, 194 Bujold, Lois McMaster 77, 182, 205, 237, Cherryh, C. J. 66, 77, 107, 165, 180, 196, 250 205, 249 Bukatman, Scott 146 Chesney, George T. 22, 23 Bulgakov, Mikhail 28 Chesterton, G. K. 70

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Chiang, Ted 77, 274 Davidson, Avram 44, 74 Christopher, John 107 Davy, Sir Humphrey 19, 21 Claremont, Chris 205 DAW Books 106 Clareson, Tom xvii Day, Donald B. xvii Clarke, Sir Arthur C. 10, 57, 60, 62, 101, De Camp, L. Sprague 182, 213 103, 106, 169, 190, 191, 193, 201, 221–2, De Lauretis, Teresa 125, 127, 159 226, 227, 268–9; Childhood’s End 42, defamiliarization 129 170, 221, 227, 269 deFord, Miriam Allen 244 Clarke, I. F. xviii Del Rey Books 107 Clement, Hal 41, 188, 189, 192 del Rey, Judy-Lynn 107 Clifton, Mark 44 del Rey, Lester 44, 107; ‘Helen Clingerman, Mildred 244 O’Loy’ 126–8 cloning 167, 174, 180, 181 Delany, Samuel R. 54, 57, 59, 61, 67, 101, Close Encounters of the Third Kind 58, 91 106, 117, 151, 253; Triton (Trouble on Clute, John xviii, 3, 6, 11, 51, 130; Triton) 120, 156, 182, 225, 226, 249 Appleseed 206, 207, 272 Derleth, August 102, 103 cognitive estrangement 5, 118 Dewey, John 231 cold equations 4, 10, 33 Dianetics 40, 99, 188, 269 Cole, Robert W. 198 Dick, Philip K. 10, 44, 56, 61, 62, 69, 71, communism 220, 235 100, 101, 108, 117, 120, 121, 138, 141, conceptual breakthrough 5, 7, 33 142, 143, 145, 167, 192, 212 Confederacy 212 Dickson, Gordon R. 231 Conklin, Groff 102, 103 Dikty, T. E. 103, 105 Conrad, Joseph 74 Disch, Thomas M. 53, 54, 56–7, 60, 61, 67, conspiracy theories 238 101, 145, 151 Contento, William xviii Disney, Walt 88 conventions 96 Disneyland 144 Cook, Robin 180, 181 Doctor Who 88, 89, 91 Corelli, Marie 82 Donaldson, Stephen R. 107 Corman, Roger 86 Donnelly, Ignatius 29 counterfactuals 211 Doubleday 105 cover art 36, 46, 56, 57, 172, 243 Doyle, Arthur Conan 27, 81 Crichton, Michael 176, 178, 179, 184 Dozois, Gardner 54, 96, 101, 104 Crick, Bernard 230 Dr Mabuse 82 critical dystopias 120 dream story 16 critical utopias 117, 123, 225 Du Bois, W. E. B. 256, 257 Cromie, Robert 27 Dungeons and Dragons 205 Cronenberg, David 93 Dunsany, Lord 100 Crowley, John 60 dystopia (and see utopia) 29, 220, 230 Csicsery-Ronay, Istvan 4 cultural studies 113, 114, 116 E.T. 92, 119 Cummings, Ray 30, 100, 200 Eaton Conference xviii cyberpunk 67–8, 71, 72, 74, 104, 130, 141, Ebert, Roger 216 146, 157, 158, 175, 186, 194, 239, 250 Eco, Umberto 238 cyberspace 71, 238 ecology 90 cyborg 34, 122–3, 132, 133, 167, 228 Edison, Thomas A. 115 Cyrano de Bergerac 16 Edison, Tom Jr 22 editors 96–109 Dane, Clemence 107 Edwards, Malcolm 107, 108 Daniel, Gabriel 17 Egan, Greg 71, 166, 178, 191, 194, 195; Dann, Jack 104, 267 Schild’s Ladder 2–11, 168 Danvers, Dennis 183 Elgin, Suzette Haden 249, 250, 273 Darwin, Charles 27, 177 Eliot, T. S. 139, 207

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Ellis, Edward S. 22 Fowles, John 72 Ellison, Harlan 54, 58, 100, 101, 104, 106 Foyster, John 61 Emanuel, Victor Rousseau 30 France, Anatole 25 Emmerich, Roland 93 France, movies in 87 Emshwiller, Carol 244 Frankenheimer, John 90 England, George Allan 30 Franklin, H. Bruce xviii, 117, 193 environment 183–4 Frau im Mond, Die 82 eschatology 268 Frederick Fell 105 Eskridge, Kelly 251 Freedman, Carl 117, 119–20, 146 ethnicity 253–62 Friedman, David 233 evolution 177 frontier myth 22 Ewers, Hans Heinz 82 Frye, Northrop 51 Extropians 270 ftl, faster than light 6 Extrapolation xvii fundamentalism 272 extrasensory perception (ESP) 176, 272 future 20, 26, 36, 40, 50, 66, 67, 119, 163 future war stories 20, 23, 26, 28, 265 fairy tales 36, 59 Futurians 38, 115 Famous Fantastic Mysteries 99 fandom, fans 37, 38, 44, 96, 97, 98 Galaxy Science Fiction xv, xvii, 42–4, 46, Fantastic 101 99, 100, 223 Fantastic Adventures 98 Galbreath, Robert 138 fantastic voyage 265 Garber, Eric 151, 152, 156 Farley, Ralph Milne 30 Gardner, Thomas 243 Farmer, Philip Jose´ 56, 244 Garnier, Charles 17 Farscape 165 Garrett, Laurie 180 Fawcett, E. Douglas 23, 29 Gathings Committee 106 Felice, Cynthia 249 GATTACA 168, 180 feminism 10, 59, 113, 122, 172, 182 Gaylactic Network 151 feminist sf 236, 271 Gearhart, Sally Miller 248, 271 feminist theory 125–34 Geis, Dick 61 feminist utopias 247–9 gender 7, 59, 126, 155, 172, 241–51 Ferguson, Niall 211, 217 genetic engineering 74, 180–1 Fetterley, Judith 126 Germany, sf in 28 Fezandie,´ Clement 31 Gernsback, Hugo xvi, 30–1, 32, 33, 34, Fiedler, Leslie xv 35, 36, 37, 38, 41, 43, 79, 96, 97–8, 198, ﬁlms 1–2, 59, 64, 108, 115 199 Finch, Sheila 203, 250 Gibson, William 6, 72, 145, 146, 220; Firestone, Shulamith 182 Neuromancer 67, 71–2, 106, 130–1, Fitting, Peter 117 141–2, 143, 146, 147 Flammarion, Camille 11, 17, 21, 28, 29, 82, Giesy, J. Y. 29 177 Gillespie, Bruce 56, 61 Flash Gordon 84 Gilliam, Terry 91 Foigny, Gabriel de 17 Gilman, Carolyn Ives 182 Fontanelle, Bernard de 16 Gilman, Charlotte Perkins 182 Forbidden Planet 166, 175 Gingrich, Newt 193 Ford, John 74 Gnaedinger, Mary 99 Forstchen, William 193 Godard, Jean-Luc 49 Fort, Charles 176 Godwin, Francis 16 Foster, M. A. 60 Godwin, Tom ‘The Cold Equations’ 10, 39, Foucault, Michel 152, 226 103, 189, 193 Foundation xvii, 61 Gold, Horace L. xvii, 42, 43, 96, 99, 100 Fourier, Charles 220 Golden Age sf 37, 50, 52, 65, 99, 189 Fowler, Karen Joy 251 Golding, William 107

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Goldsmith, Cele 41, 101 Future history 50, 99; ‘“If This Goes Gollancz, Victor 107 On –”’ 231–2, 269, 273; The Moon is a Goonan, Kathleen Ann 179, 261 Harsh Mistress 150, 233–4; Starship Gordon, Stuart 94 Troopers 60, 132, 232–3, 246; Stranger in Gould, Stephen J. 178 a Strange Land 51–2, 57, 116, 266, 271 Gove, Philip Babcock xvii Hemingway, Ernest 60 Grainville, Cousin de 18 Henderson, Zenna 42, 53, 246 Gramsci, Antonio 117, 230 Herbert, Frank 62, 179; Dune 41, 51, 52, Grant, Richard 271, 274 57, 58, 116, 169, 170, 175, 176, 178, Greenland, Colin 144–5, 146, 194, 206 183–4, 236 Grifﬁth, George 23, 26, 198 hero 52, 59, 172, 250 Grifﬁth, Nicola 249 Heron-Allen, Edward 27 Grimwood, Jon Courtenay 76, 268 heterosexuality 150, 155 Grimwood, Ken 215, 216 Hetzel, Pierre 21, 96 grotesque 4 Hillegas, Mark xvii, xviii Groundhog Day 216 Hilton, James 84 Grousset, Paschal 21 Hinton, C. H. 24 Gunn, James 8 Hitler, Adolf 212 Gunning, Tom 80 Hoban, Russell 183 gynoid 167 Hobbes, Thomas 238 Hodgson, William Hope 27, 100 Haggard, Henry Rider 26, 84 Holberg, Ludvig 17 Haldane, J. B. S. 34 Hollinger, Veronica 7, 11 Haldeman, Joe 41, 60, 251 Holman, Tim 108 Hale, Edward Everett 20 homosexuality 150, 151, 152, 153, 155 Hale’s Tours 80 Hopkinson, Nalo 170, 261 Hall, Desmond 98, 99 Horne, R. H. 19 Hall, Hal xviii horror 2 Hamilton, Cicely 27 Hubbard, L. Ron 40, 99, 188, 269 Hamilton, Edmund 200 Hudson, W. H. 25 Hamilton, Peter F. 234, 237 Hugin 33 Hammett, Dashiell 141 Hugo Awards 57, 59, 96 Hand, Elizabeth 271 Hull, E. Mayne 128 Haraway, Donna 122–3, 125, 130–1, 133, Hunt, Robert 19 134 Huntington, John 39 hard sf 2, 186–95, 196 Huxley, Aldous 44, 45, 181 Harris, Clare Winger 38 Huygens, Christian 17 Harris, John Beynon 37 Hyne, C. J. Cutliffe 27 Harrison, Harry 203, 269 Harrison, M. John 54, 61 icons 163–73 Harry Potter 273 If 100, 101, 223 Hartman, Keith, ‘Sex, Guns and illustrations 36 Baptists’ 153–4 imaginary voyage 15 Hartwell, David G. 58, 104, 105, 108, 188, info-dump 5, 33, 222 190 Ing, Dean 192 Hawthorne, Nathaniel 20, 34 inner space 166 Hayles, N. Katherine 125, 131 International Conference on the Fantastic in Healy, Raymond J. 41, 102, 104 the Arts (ICFA) xviii Heinlein, Robert A. 6, 10, 38–9, 40, 46, 50, Interzone 101, 192, 194 55, 60, 61, 62, 67, 69, 73, 85, 100, 101, invention stories 36, 265 103, 117, 138, 150, 188, 192, 193, 201, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 46, 225, 231–4, 239, 245–6, 266, 267; Double 101 Star 230–2; Farnham’s Freehold 258; Islam 268

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It Happened Here 216 Lang, Herrmann 20 Ivoi, Pierre d’ 22 Lara Croft 172 Lasswitz, Kurd 28 James Tiptree Memorial Award 251 Laumer, Keith 202–3 James, Edward xviii, 11 Le Guin, Ursula K. 10, 54, 59, 61, 67, 101, Jameson, Fredric 61, 117, 121, 122, 137, 106, 117, 129, 145, 151, 189, 190, 267; 141–2, 146 The Dispossessed 6, 9, 16, 55, 120, 121, Jane, Fred T. 26 171–2, 225, 230; The Left Hand of Janes, Linda 134 Darkness 9, 54, 59, 106, 121, 128, 182, Japan, cinema in 87, 94 228, 247, 267 Japanese anime 205 Le Queux, William 23, 82 Jarrold, John 108 legacy texts 6, 7 Jeffries, Richard 19 Leiber, Fritz 44, 99 Jeunet, Jean-Pierre 91 Leinster, Murray 8, 98, 203, 214 Johnny Mnemonic 140 Lem, Stanislaw 48, 61, 203 Jonas, Gerald xv Leonard, Elisabeth Anne 11, 130 Jones, Gwyneth 3, 5, 66, 251; Aleutian Lethem, Jonathan 74 trilogy 165, 166, 272; Divine Lewis, C. S. 42, 106 Endurance 167 Ley, Willy 82, 88 Jones, Langdon 145 libertarianism 189, 193, 233 Jonquel, Octave 28 Lightner, Alice 247 Joyce, Graham and Hamilton, Peter, ‘Eat Lindsay, David 264, 265 Reecebread’ 154 Lindsay, Vachel 79 Joyce, James 139 Linebarger, Paul (see Smith, Judaism 267–8 Cordwainer) 100 Locus xv, 187 Kagan, Janet 180, 250 London, Jack 29, 30, 32, 114 Kapp, Colin 101 Long, Amelia R. 36 Kelly, James Patrick 251 Long, Frank Belknap 203 Kelvin, Lord 27 Loudon, Jane Well 19 Kepler, Johannes 16, 103 Lovecraft, H. P. 35, 98 Kessel, John 212 Lowell, Percival 29 Keyes, Daniel 42, 53, 57 Lucian 103 King, Stephen 179 Lukacs,´ Georg 117 Kipling, Rudyard 27, 34 Lumiere` brothers 79, 80 Kircher, Athanasius 16 lunar voyages 16 Klass, Phil (see Tenn, William) xv Lunney, Frank 61 Kneale, Nigel 89 Lynch, Arthur 37 Knight, Damon 23, 44, 45, 54, 60, 104 Lyotard, Jean-Franc¸ois 139–40, 145–6 Koestler, Arthur 45 Kornbluth, Cyril (and see Pohl, Frederik) 38, Macaulay, Lord 230, 231 43, 100, 115, 237 MacLean, Katharine 44, 246 Kraft, Robert 22 MacLeod, Ken 11, 66, 140, 181, 226, 270; Kress, Nancy 168, 176, 177 Fall Revolution series 234, 239, 270, 272, Kubrick, Stanley 57, 91, 140, 165 274 Kuttner, Henry 41, 99, 190 MacLeod, Ian R., ‘The Summer Isles’ 212 mad scientists 83–4, 87, 172 L5 Society 193, 224 Mader, F. W. 22 Lafferty, R. A. 54, 100, 193 Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction xv, Lake, David 177 xvii, 41, 42, 99, 100 Landis, Geoffrey A. 192 magazines xvii, 32–47, 97–102 landscape 8 magical realism 253 Lang, Fritz 82–3 Mailer, Norman 53

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Maitland, Edward 23 Morris, William 114 Malzberg, Barry N. 60 Morrison, Toni 254 Marcuse, Herbert 116 Moskowitz, Sam xvii Mars novels 187, 192 Mosley, Walter 253 Marvel Stories 37 movies: see ﬁlms Marx, Karl 114 Moylan, Tom 117, 120, 225 Marxism 10, 11, 141 Mullen, R. D. 117 Marxist theory 113–23, 125 Munsey, Frank A. xvi, 97 masculinity 241, 242, 250 Murphy, Pat 146, 251 Matheson, Richard 100 mutation 177–9 matriarchies 243 mystery 2, 33, 96, 102 Matrix 166 Maurier, Guy de 82 Nabokov, Vladimir 70 McAuley, Paul J. 66, 75–6, 179, 181, 191, Nagata, Linda 179 194, 195, 239 nanotechnology 179, 195 McCaffrey, Anne 59, 267 Nau, John-Antoine 28 McCarthy, Wil 179 Nebula Awards 57, 59, 219 McComas, J. Francis xvii, 41, 99, 100, 102, New England Science Fiction Association 104 (NESFA) xvii McDevitt, Jack 138, 169 New Wave 49–58, 59, 61, 62, 101, 104, McDonald, Ian 178, 251 144, 145 McHale, Brian 145 New Worlds xvii, 42, 53–4, 56, 59, 101 McHugh, Maureen 76, 151, 177, 250, 267 New Yorker 42 McIntyre, Vonda 60, 121 Newman, Kim 74 Meacham, Beth 108 Nicholls, Peter xviii, 33, 58, 181 Meli´ es,` Georges 79–80 Nicolson, Marjorie Hope xvii Melville, Herman 34 Niven, Larry 59, 181, 190, 192, 194, 205 Menippus 51 Norton, Andre 128, 244 Mercier, Louis-Sebastien 18 novum 4, 118–19 Merrick, Helen 10, 125, 134 nuclear anxiety 48, 85, 87 Merril, Judith xv, 38, 53, 54, 61, 96, 103, Nye, David xvii, 3, 4 104, 246 Merritt, Abraham xv, 30, 31, 97, 100 O’Brien, Fitz-James 20 metaphor 5 Oberth, Hermann 82 Metropolis 82, 83 Odle, E. V. 27 Michaels, Melisa C. 205 organlegging 181 Mieville,´ China 77 original anthology 104 military sf 46 Orwell, George 38–9, 45, 212, 231 Miller, Walter M. 41, 57, 266 outsider sf 5 missionary 268 Owen, Robert 220 Mitchison, Naomi 128, 247 Mixon, Laura 250 paganism 271 modernism 138–9, 140, 145 Paine, Thomas 230 Moffett, Judith Pennterra 8, 266, 267, 274 Pal, George 85 Monteith, Charles 107 Paleo, Lyn 151, 153, 156 Moon, Elizabeth 250 Palmer, Raymond 98 Moorcock, Michael xvii, 53, 54, 101, 104, Palumbo, Donald 151 144, 145 Pangborn, Edgar 44 Moore, C. L. (Catherine) 35, 128, 190, 244; Panshin, Alexei 50, 57, 165 ‘No Woman Born’ 127, 133, 244 Panshin, Cory 50 Moore, Ward 213 paperback 42, 87, 105 More, Thomas, Utopia 219, 220, 228 parasitism 183 Mormonism 265, 274 Paris qui dort 81

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Park, Paul 76 Reiss, Malcolm 99 Paul, Frank R. 36 religion 264–75 Paul, Robert 80 Renard, Maurice 82, 84 Peake, Mervyn 45 replicants 167 Pearson, Wendy 8, 10, 125, 133 reproduction 181–2 Pfeil, Fred 145 Resnick, Mike, AMiracle of Rare Piercy, Marge 122, 182; He, She and It 120, Device 254–6 181; Woman on the Edge of Time 120, revolution 234–5 128, 156, 176, 182, 225, 226, 248 Reynolds, Alastair 169, 172, 230 Piper, H. Beam 214 Reynolds, Mack 115, 223–5 plague 179–80 Rhine, J. B. 228 Planet Stories 99 Rich, Adrienne 128 Plato 103 Riemer, James 151 Platt, Charles 145 Rimbaud, Arthur 43 Pleasantville 62 Robbins, Tom 137 Pocket Books 105 Roberts, Adam 266 Poe, Edgar Allan 18–19, 20, 23, 24, 28, 33, Roberts, Keith 57, 210, 211 34, 35 , 96, 97, 190; inﬂuence of 21 Robida, Albert 28 Pohl, Frederik xvii, 23, 60, 62, 67, 100, 101, Robinson, Kim Stanley 73, 138, 179, 184, 104, 115, 169, 190, 227; and Kornbluth, 223, 251, 268; ‘The Lucky Strike’ Cyril 43, 100, 106, 245 209–10, 211; Mars series 73, 121, 184, Polan, Tony 230 191–2, 226, 235; Orange County politics 11, 188, 192–3, 230–40 trilogy 120, 226 post-humans 4, 7, 272 robots 83, 163, 166–7 postmodern space opera 206–7 rocket 164, 192 postmodernism 10, 11, 122, 123, 137–47, Rocklynne, Ross 199 206; the term 137 Rohmer, Sax 84 Pournelle, Jerry 193 romance 2–3, 9, 33, 243 Powers, Richard 106 Rosenblum, Mary 250 Presslie, Robert 268 Rosny, J.-H. aınˆ e´ 28, 177 Preston, Richard 180 Roszak, Theodore 251 Pringle, David 102, 194 Rottensteiner, Franz 61 Prisoner, The 91 Rouge, Gustave le 22 psychohistory 39 Roumier-Robert, Marie-Anne de 17 publishers xviii, 96–109 Rousseau, Victor 30 pulp magazines xvii, 29, 32, 87, 97, 264 Rubinstein, Hilary 107 pulp sf 172 Rucker, Rudy 146, 190, 194 Pynchon, Thomas 146, 164 Run Lola Run 216 Rupert, Margaret F. 244 Quakers 267, 274 Ruritanian romances 202 queer theory 8, 11, 113, 133, 150, 155, 157, Rushdie, Salman 253 159 Russ 54, 59, 62, 67, 117, 122, 123, 129, 145, 151, 176, 243, 247; Female Man 59, 120, Rabkin, Eric 61 128, 182, 225, 236, 248; ‘When it race, race criticism 11, 113, 130, 151, 253–62 Changed’ 128, 248 radical hard sf 194 Russell, Eric Frank 222, 223, 237 Rand, Ayn 189 Russell, Mary Doria 269, 274 Raymond, Alex 84 Russia, sf in 28, 235 Reade, Frank 22 Ryman, Geoff 138, 146, 158, 179 Reagan, Ronald 192, 193, 273 Red Dwarf 204 Sagan, Carl 34 Reed, Kit 244 Samuelson, David 196

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Sanders, William 212 Shippey, Tom 146, 189 Sargent, Pamela 135, 174, 180, 226, 249 Shiras, Wilmar H. 244 satirical space opera 203–4 Shute, Nevil 183 Saunders, Charles 253 Silverberg, Robert 54, 100, 103, 104, 234, Sawyer, Robert J. 180 245, 267 Scheerbart, Paul 28 Simak, Clifford D. 57, 99, 267 Schmidt, Stanley 186 Simmons, Dan 66, 77, 138, 146, 206, 207, Scholes, Robert xv, 61, 62 270 science 15, 44 Sinclair, Upton 30 science fantasy 46 Siodmak, Curt 84 Science Fantasy 53 Sladek, John 54 science fiction 32; academic study of xv, Sliding Doors 216 xviii, 61; and the mainstream 9–10;as Sloane, T. O’Conor 37, 98 genre 1, 2, 3;asmode 2, 4; canon of 1–2, Slonczewski, Joan 178, 182, 191, 196, 270; 10, 103; conferences on xvii; critical Brain Plague 177, 179; Door into Ocean, tools for 1; teaching of xvii; the term xvi, A 178, 184 16, 19, 33, 48, 54, 119, 151; vocabulary Slusser, George 146 of 5–6 Smith, Cordwainer 33, 41, 44, 49, 53, 61, Science Fiction Research Association 100, 201, 221 (SFRA) xv, xviii Smith, E. E. ‘Doc’ xv, 3, 33, 35, 97, 99, 101, Science-Fiction Studies xvii, 61, 103, 117, 150, 198, 200, 204, 264; Lensmen 120, 141 series 35, 41, 55, 200; Skylark of Science Fiction Writers of America Space 98, 198–9, 200 (SFWA) 103 Smith, Michael Marshall 181 Science Wonder Quarterly 37 Socialism 24, 26, 29, 113, 114, 220, 223, Science Wonder Stories 37, 97 224, 235 scientific romance 23, 34, 264–75 Soviet Union 114, 220, 235 scientifiction 30, 33, 37 Space Opera (game) 205 Scientology 40, 269 space opera 2, 35 , 69, 71, 84, 97, 146, ‘Sci-fi’ 1 197–207 Scott, Ridley 71, 91, 142, 165, 167, 183 space travel 26, 192 Scott, Melissa 157–8, 250, 251 spaceship 164–5, 197 secularism 264 Spielberg, Steven 53, 93 Sedgwick, Eva Kosofsky 149, 152–3, 159 spin-offs 64–5, 68, 108 self-referentiality 74 Spinrad, Norman 53, 54 sense of wonder xvi, 3–4, 21, 200 Springer, Nancy 251 serials (movies) 81, 84, 201 St Clair, Margaret 44, 244 Serviss, Garrett P. 22, 198 Stabenow, Dana 204 sex, sexuality 9, 149–59, 181–3, 242 Stableford, Brian M. 11, 87, 181, 191, 265, Shanks, Edward 27 268, 272 share-cropping 69 Stalin, Joseph 114 Shaw, Bob 190 Stapledon, Olaf 42, 45, 103, 175, 178, 264, Shea, Robert and Wilson, Robert Anton 272 238 Star Trek 58, 64, 88, 90, 108, 140, 165, 168, Sheckley, Robert 43, 100, 137, 203 197, 200, 204, 216, 222, 227, 262, 267, Sheldon, Alice: see Tiptree, James 248 270 Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein 19, 34, 82, 84, Star Wars 58, 64, 91, 92, 108, 119, 176, 126, 128, 129, 163, 171, 174, 181, 184 197, 200, 205, 215–6 Shepard, Lucius 74 ‘Star Wars’ (SDI) 192 Shiel, M. P. 23, 26 Startling Stories 37, 99 Shiner, Lewis and Sterling, Bruce, ‘Mozart in Steele, Allen 187 Mirrorshades’ 214 Stelarc 146, 147

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Stephenson, Neal 78, 140, 147, 238, 262 Tousey, Frank 97 Sterling, Bruce 72, 73, 104, 145, 146, Tracy, Louis 23 181, 193–4, 206, 214, 239; travellers’ tales 18 Distraction 77–8, 175, 181; ‘Dori Tremaine, F. Orlin 4, 37, 38, 98, 99 Bangs’ 212, 217–18 Trotsky, Leon 231 Stevens, Francis 30, 128, 244 Trueman, Chrysostom 20, 27 Stevenson, Robert Louis 82, 84 Truffaut, Franc¸ois 49 Stockton, Frank R. 20, 22 Tsiolkovski, Konstantin 28, 164 Stoker, Bram 163 Tuck, Donald H. xvii Stone, Leslie F. 128, 199, 244 Tucker, Wilson 197–8, 200 Stormont, Leo 81 Turtledove, Harry 74, 211, 215 story contests 38 Twain, Mark 213 Strahan, Jonathan 104 2001 165 Strugatsky brothers 48, 115 Tymn, Marshall xviii Sturgeon, Theodore 43, 49, 99, 103, 106, 149, 156, 176, 182, 247; ‘Microcosmic UFOs 98, 168, 235 God’ 270, 272; ‘The World Well Unknown 40, 99, 265 Lost’ 153, 156–7 USA, sf in 28–31 sublime 3 utopia 15, 18, 42, 59, 73, 113–16, 119, 121, Sucharitkul, Somtow 221 129, 145, 151, 159, 182, 219–28, 230, superhuman 51, 53, 242, 270, 272 268, 272 Suvin, Darko 4, 5, 61, 117, 118–20 Utopian Studies 120 Swanwick, Michael 74, 77, 206 Swedenborg, Emmanuel 17 vampires 163 Swift, Jonathan 15, 45 VanVogt, A. E. 3, 40, 51, 99, 101, 180, 272; Slan 10, 40, 175, 176, 178, 269 Taine, John 178 Vance, Jack 60, 202, 203 Tarkovsky, Andrei 91 Varlet, Theo´ 28 technological utopianism 222, 227 Varley, John 60, 67, 157, 158, 249, 271 telepathy 228 Verhoeven, Paul 93 television, sf on xvii, 87, 89–90, 108 Verne, Jules xvi, 17, 20–1, 23, 24, 26, Tenn, William xv–xvi, 44, 267, 270 28, 31, 33, 34, 79, 82, 96, 97; inﬂuence Tepper, Sheri S. 66, 77, 170, 226, 227, 249, of 21–2 250, 267, 270, 271 Verne, Michel 21 Terminator, The 181 video games 205 Thomas, Sheree R. 254 Viehl, S. L. 205 thought experiment 4 Vietnam War 48, 60, 117, 168, 176 thought-variants 37, 98 Vinge, Joan 59 Thrill Book 33 Vinge, Vernor 6, 71, 76, 176, 177, 190, 191, thriller 2 238–9, 270;‘True Names’ 68, 71 Thrilling Wonder 3 virtual reality 34, 165–6 Thurber, James 42 Voltaire 17, 18, 216 time-loop 215 Vonnegut, Kurt xv, 44, 45, 57, 100, 116, Timescape Books 108 137, 176, 178 timeslips 214 time travel 171, 213, 214 Waldrop, Howard 73–4, 212, 215 Tiptree, James, Jr 6, 133–4, 135, 247, 248–9, Wallis, George C. 22 270; ‘Houston, Houston, Do You Watkins, Peter 90 Read?’ 128, 129, 182, 248 Watson, Ian 60 Tiptree Award 135 Watts, Peter 179 Tolkien, J. R. R. 45, 51 Webb, Janeen 104 Tolstoi, Alexei 28, 82 Weber, David 205, 274 Tor Books 108 Weinbaum, Stanley G. 35 , 192, 242

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Weird Tales 33, 103 Wolfe, Gene 54, 60, 69–70, 71, 75, 146; Wells, H. G. xvi, 24–6, 27, 29, 30, 31, 33, Book of the New Sun 58, 70, 108; Book 34, 42, 69, 79, 80, 82, 84, 85, 97, 100, of the Long Sun 70, 165; Book of the 103, 114, 115, 212; inﬂuence of 26–30; Short Sun 70 Time Machine 24, 118, 175, 176, 177–8; Wolfe, Tom 141 Time Machine sequels 177; War of the Wollheim, Donald A. 53, 54, 61, 100, 102, Worlds 25, 118, 168, 178, 179 104, 105, 106, 107 Wertenbaker, G. Peyton 37 Womack, Jack 140, 143 Whitbourn, John 273 Wonder Stories 37, 97, 99 White, E. B. 42 Wright, S. Fowler 27 White, Fred M. 27 Wylie, Philip 84, 245 White, James 101, 203 Wyn, A. A. 106 Whorf, Benjamin Lee 51 Wyndham, John 37, 42, 107, 245 Wilhelm, Kate 54, 60, 180, 244 Wilkins, John 16 X-Files, The 88, 184, 238 Williams, Raymond 116, 117 Williamson, Ernest and George 80–1 Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn 179 Williamson, Jack xvii, 65, 67, 99, 200 year’s best anthologies 103–4, 106 Willis, Connie 74, 179, 246 Yefremov, Ivan 115 Wilson, Robert Charles 178 Wilson, William 19 Zaki, Hoda M. 219 Windling, Terri 108 Zamyatin, Evgeny 45 Winterbotham, R. R. 36 Zelazny, Roger 53, 55, 57, 61, 100, 101, Wizard of Oz, The 138, 273 169–70 Wolfe, Bernard 45 Zoline, Pamela 54

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