CLASSIC AND ICONOCLASTIC ALTERNATE HISTORY SCIENCE FICTION Edited by Edgar L. Chapman and Carl B. Yoke The Edwin Mellen Press Lewiston*Queenston#Lampeter TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. "Introduction: Three Stages of Alternate History Fiction and the "Metaphysical If by Edgar L. Chapman, Professor of English Emeritus, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois. 1 2. "Taine and Leinster and the Origins of Magazine Alternate History: If Only . ." by Joe Sanders, Professor of English Emeritus, Lakeland Community College, Lakeland, Ohio. 29 3. "The Ironical Mysteries of Time: Ward Moore's Classic Bring the Jubilee" by Robert Geary, Department of English, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia. 39 4. "A Dance of Apes: Sarban's The Sound of His Horn," by Carl B. Yoke, Department of English, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. 49 5. "Toward a Theory of Alternate History: Some Versions of Alternative Nazis" by William Hardesty III, Department of English, University of Miami, Miami, Ohio. 71 6. "Metafiction and the Gnostic Quest in The Man in the High Castle: Dick's Alternate History Classic After Four Decades" by Howard Canaan, Department of Humanities, Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, New York. 93 7. "The Aztecs, Turks, and Incas Have It: Robert Silverberg's Playful Alternate Histories" by Olena Saciuk, Department of Humanities, InterAmerican University of Puerto Rico, San German, Puerto Rico. 123 8. "Authentic History, Alternate History, and Alternate Future History in Superhero Graphic Novels, 1986-1996" by Darren Harris-Fain, Department of Arts and Humanities, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio. 141 9. "Between the Poles of a Paradox: Robert Coover's The Public Burning and Whatever Happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears? as Alternate History" by Martha Bartter, Department of English, Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri. 171 10. "Kingsley Amis's Science Fiction and the Problems of Genre" by Thomas Shippey, Walter J. Ong Professor of Humanities, St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri. 189 11. "Alternate History and Dislocation in Joanne Russ's The Female Man" by Karen Hellekson, Independent Scholar, Science Fiction Research Association, Jay, Maine. 209 12. "Alternate Views of Time and History in Orson Scott Card's The Tales of Alvin Maker" by Steven Kagle, Professor of English Emeritus, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois. 225 13. "Gallic Paradoxes: The Great Implosion, A French Alternate History" by Claire-Antoinette Lindenlaub, Independent Scholar, French Literature and Film, Geneva, Switzerland. 245 14. "Multiple Alternate History Fictions by Robert Heinlein and John Crowley: Slick Gimmicks or Postmodern Fables?" by Edgar L. Chapman, Professor of English Emeritus, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois. 259 15. Selected Bibliography by Carl B. Yoke, Department of English, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. 287.