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" The man's a living legend"
"'I' comes after: : critical posthumanism and the literary imagination/
"'La Odisea' es el mejor space opera de todos los tiempos" : Julián Díez entrevista a Javier Negrete
"...in the unholy name of science"
"A fantastic reflex of itself, an echo, a symbol, a myth, a crazy dream": : terraforming as landscaping nature's otherness in H. G. Wells's The Shape of things to come and Olaf Stapledon's Last and First men and Starmaker
"A place I have never seen": : possibility, genre, politics and China Miéville's The Scar
"A snappy short story having some scientific fact as its theme" : Ashley's Science-fiction magazines from 1970-1980 and Westfahl's Hugo Gernsback and the century of SF/
"All that you touch, you change"/
"An idea of significant import" Hugo Gernsback's theory of science fiction
"And call me Roger" : the early literary life of Roger Zelazny
"Aye, and Gomorrah..." and other stories : [a review]
"Before the oven" : aesthetics and politics in 'Gravity's Rainbow'
"Books of truth": Iain M. Banks -- atheist, secularist, humanist
"Call me a protestant" : Liberal christianity, individualism, and the messiah in Stranger in a strange land, Dune and Lord of light
"Colliding realities": : an interview with Lauren Beukes/
"Deberíamos haber vivido en un mundo más interesante" : Ramón Muñoz entrevista a Howard Waldrop
"Die unveröffentlichten" : guest of honor speech
"Dream your dreams" : a meditation on Babylon 5/
"Dreaming real" : the conquest of psiberspace?
"El conseradurismo narrativo es inevitable en la CF" : Elia Barcel ́conversa con Wolfgang Jeschke
"Escribo para llevar la ciencia a un territorio metafísco" : Carlos Pavón entrevista a Greg Egan
"Every age has the vampire it needs" : Octavia Butler's vampiric vision in Fledgling
"Facilis descensus Averni" [review]
"Fine writing"
"For our balls were sheathed in inertron" : textual variations in "The seminal novel of Buck Rogers"
"For-a-while" : remembering Joanna Russ
"Gender politics" : epithet or accolade? or, feminist sf and the case of Joanna Russ
"Giving an account of oneself" : Ethics, alterity, Air
"God is showing through" : footnotes on religion and sf
"Gotta make way for the homo superior" : finding Philip K. Dick in David Bowie's "Oh! you prety things!"
"Habituated to the vast" ecocriticism, the sense of wonder, and the wilderness of stars
"Hard Character Science Fiction" : two essays on the science fiction of the mind
"He buscado demostrar que la CF merece cuidado y atencion" : Julián Díez entrevista a Francisco Porrúa
"Heinlein = Fascist" - debunked
"Hiro" of the platonic : Neal Stephenson's 'Snow Crash'
"I am a leaf on the wind" : Cultural trauma and mobility in Joss Whedon's Firefly
"I make you great. I give you the stars."/
"I'm nobody's puppet"" : an interview with Philip Lawson
"If the inside was the outside": : gender, heteronormativity and the body in David Levithan's Every Day
"Imagine you're a machine": : narrative systems in Peter Watts's Blindsight and Echopraxia/
"Into the memory hole" : Totalitarianism and mal d'archive in Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Handmaid's tale
"It has to be more than the simple conditioning of a child, once upon a time" : the use of the child in 'Gravity's Rainbow'
"It" came from outer space : occasional pieces 1973-2008/
"It" came from outer space: occasional pieces 1973-2008 [Review]
"It's a question of words, therefore": : Becoming-animal in Michel Faber's Under the skin
"Its coming": künstliche intelligenz in der gesellschaft
"Just a bunch of stuff that happened" : narratives of resistance in 'Gravity's Rainbow'
"Kaboooom!!! Guess that must spell doom" : dystopia and the post-apocalypse in hip-hop music videos
"La CF debe 'su' futuro y tratar del futuro real" : Julián Díez entrevista a John Clute
"Law and justice for the stars" : John Morressy's worlds of the future/
"Lilith" in a new light [Review]/
"Martians old and new, still standing over us"
"More than human": : the queer occult explorer of the fin-de-siècle/
"Murder in the air" : the quest for the death ray
"New words were needed": : how modernism and science fiction have more in common than I might once have thought
"Not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be": : medicine in science fiction/
"Oh, to be a blurber!"
"On a more meaningful scale: : marketing utopia in Watchmen
"On the receiving end of the colonization" : Nalo Hopkinson's 'Nansi web
"Only by experience" : Embodiment and the limitations of realism in neo-slave narratives/
"Out of this world: Science fiction but not as you know it" [review]
"Public imbecility and journalistic enterprise" : The satire on Mars mania in H. G. Wells's The war of the worlds/
"Road of giants" : Nostalgia and the ruins of the superhighway in Kim Stanley Robinson's Three Californias trilogy
"Room enough for all of us" [transcript of Noreascon speech]
"SAIÄNS-FIKTSCHEN" : Franz Fühmanns konzept von science fiction
"Scavange, slay, survive": : the zombie apocalypse, exploration, and lived experience in DayZ/
"Several exceptional forms of primates" : simian cinema/
"So we all became mothers" : new roles for men in recent utopian fiction
"Solus Solo" the monster self : solipsism in 'Peer Gynt', 'Grendel', 'Perfume'
"Some matching strangeness" : biology, politics, and the embrace of history in Octavia Butler's Kindred
"Some real mothers . . ."/
"Something's stalking through the city of smoke" : tracing the ins and outs of 'Gravity's Rainbow's London
"Sounds like a human performance" : The electronic music synthesizer in mid-twentieth century sf
"Spells out the word of itself, and then dispelling itself": : The chaotics of memory and the ghost of the novel in Jeff Noon's Falling out of cars
"Star Trek" : parallel narratives : [a review]
"Structuralist alchemy" in Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars/
"Tell me the old, old story"
"The animals in that country" : science fiction and animal studies
"The closely reasoned technological story" : the critical history of hard science fiction
"The girl isn't white": New racial dimensions in Octavia Butler's Survivor/
"The great rebel: : promethean evocations in E. M. Forster's The machine stops/
"The green hills of earth"
"The holy and the powerful light that shines through history" : Tradition and technology in Marge Piercy's He, She and It
"The jelloed salad mold of my soul" : an interview with Sean Stewart
"The menace of war" : Einstein, Freud and sf
"The more things change, the more they remain the same" : Gender and sexuality in Octavia Butler's oeuvre
"The passion, the magic, and the outrageous": : Theodore Sturgeon's fantasy fiction
"The red sun is high, the blue low" : towards a stylistic description of science fiction
"The sense of wonder" is "a sense sublime"
"The space between" in space : some versions of the bildungsroman in science fiction
"The time had come for us to be born" : Octavia Butler's Darwinian apocalypse
"The times they are a'changin."/
"The trick in hard sf is to minimize cheating, not just disguise it with fancy footwork" : The transporter in Star Trek: can it work?
"The weaker (?) sex": : women and the sp[ace opera in Hugo Gernsback's Amazing Stories/
"They're here..." : "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" - a tribute : [a review]
"To be or not to be": : mundane sf/
"To love that well which thou must leave ere long" : Creativity and the journey of maturity in Kate Wilhelm's Where late the sweet birds sang
"Too much paranoias"
"Until he or I perish" : Sourcing the Arthur paradigm in Frankenstein
"Vernichten, was unwert ist, ausrotten den Aberglauben von Wissenschaft, Teknik und falschen Religionen" : Die welteislehre als phantasma
"Wake up, you lot!": : John Foyster as sf critic
"We are the harvest of the centuries"
"We are the walking dead" : Race, time, and survival in zombie narrative
"What actually is" : the insistence of genre in Octavia Butler's Kindred
"What are you grokking in that sci-fi zine, Hamlet?" "Words, words, words."/
"What good is all this to black people?" Octavia Butler's reconstruction of corporality
"What's past is prologue" : historical causation and agency in Ken MacLeod's 'The Star Fraction' and 'The Stone Canal'
"Yo abrí la brecha de la fantasiá no Anglosajona" : Luis G. Prado entrevista a Andrzej Sapkowski
"You can't trust planets"/
"Your children will know us, you never will" : the pessimistic utopia of Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy
"rituals' footprints ankle-deep in stone" : the irrelevancy of setting in the fantastic
'American Gothic' : tales of the supernatural in prime time TV
'Ask the next question'
'Creature from the black lagoon' : [a review]
'Dangerously absent dreamers' : genealogy, history and the political left in 'Vineland'
'Gravity's Rainbow' : Pynchon's holocaust allegory
'Gravity's Rainbow', 'Operation Crossbow' and the culture of containment
'Gulliver's Travels' and 'Ching-hua yuan' revisited : a Menippean approach : [a review]
'I'm wondering what sort of misunderstanding is happening right now' : poststructuralism, French feminism, and Carol Emshwiller's 'The Start of the End of It All'
'Les méandres du temps' : une analyse structuralist
'Londons', metafiction and time travel narrative in Félix J. Palmer's Victorian trilogy
'New Worlds' and the new wave in fandom : fan culture and the reshaping of science fiction in the sixties
'Plus Ultra' : an unknown science fiction utopia (part V - conclusion)
'Plus Ultra' : an unknown science-fiction utopia, part IV
'Pre-Uterine claims' : cultural contexts and iconographic parallels in Ballard's 'The Atrocity Exhibition'
'Reality is a dangerous concept' : accounts of appreciation amongst an online fan community
'The Silver Locusts' : an appreciation of the book by Ray Bradbury
'They', 'They' and They
'Trouble With Lichen' : a book for our time
'Unicorn mountain' : going to extremes with Michael Bishop
'Utopia is a way of saying we can do better': : Iain M. Banks and Kim Stanley Robinson in conversation/
'Vineland' and dystopian function
(Almost) ordinary : transitional gay imagery in Julian May's galactic milieu universe
(Un)ethical futures: utopia, dystopia and science fiction/
--And the lurid glare of the comet
. . . a million Clutes screaming ""Haecceity!"
. . . and the law won : some thoughts on sf and the laws of physics
...And three to fill the bath with brightly-coloured machine parts
...but does T.S. Eliot belong in little plastic eggs?
10! or, forever!
100 must-read science fiction novels
100 novels everyone must read : volume 6, science fiction and fantasy
100 significant 'scientific romances'
100 years of estrangement, Worldcon 75, Helsinki, 9-13 August 2017/
11/22/63 by Stephen King [review]
1610 : a sundial in a grave : [a review]
1942 [Review]
1955
1969 : the end of science fiction
1984 : now or never
1984 revisualised
1990 : the year in speculative fiction
1991 Pioneer presentation : SF as literature of the contemporary world
1993 Pilgrim award acceptance
1993 Pilgrim award presentation
200 significant science fiction books by women, 1984-2001
2001 : CARL ou lesrapports de l'homme et de la machine
2009 Vector reviewers' poll
2010 : Books in review
2010 : Television in review
2010 in film : not my kind of genre
2010 vector reviewers' poll
2011 BSFA awards
2011 in pictures
2012 in sf audio
2013 in comics
2013 in sf audio
2013 in sf cinema
2013 in sf television
2014 in science fiction comics
2015 in science fiction comics/
2015 round up
2017 and beyond .../
2017 in audio/
2017: a Clarke Odyssey/
2019 in film : yet another year in decline
2066 and all that
2081 : a hopeful view of the human future : [a review]
2084 edited by George Sandison [Review]
21st century science fiction edited by David G. Hartwell & Patrick Nielsen Hayden [review]
21st century stories/
2312 [by] Kim Stanley Robinson [review]
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson [review]
25 IZ: : 25 years of Interzone/
3 by PKD
42 [a review]
50 short science fiction tales : [a review]
50 years and counting/
7 footnotes to Merritt
9tail fox : [a review]
9tail fox [review]/
A "Dear John" letter to a fallen giant : Revisiting Updike's marginalization of sf as an "ineluctably minor genre"
A "monster" of academic jargon/
A (partially) happy reader
A CritiFan talk with Frederik Pohl
A CritiFan talk with Kurt Vonnegut Jr
A German hero for the cold war : Wolfgang F. Henschel's Alpha Alpha
A Gordian knot: : classical elements in Watchmen
A Hainish chronology
A Hugo for 'Neuromancer'? : awards, winners, and values
A JGB grab bag
A Martian named Heinlein
A beast licking its chops : Simon Inges interviewed
A beautiful friendship by David Weber [review]
A beautiful mosaic of words/
A benefit rock concert for Paul Williams
A biographical dictionary of science fiction and fantasy artists : [a review]
A biographical dictionary of science fiction and fantasy artists : [a review]
A blurring of themes and genres/
A book of wonders
A borrowed man [by] Gene Wolfe [review]/
A borrowed man by Gene Wolfe[Review]/
A brief guide to C. S. Lewis: from Mere Christianity to Narnia by Paul Simpson [Review]
A brief history of steampunk: : what would it up and why it still ticks
A brief survey
A cacophonic modernist
A capital alternative: : alternative histories and the futural present
A celebration of bones : [a review]
A century of science fiction : [a review]
A chat with Lloyd Alexander
A checklist of American critical works on sf : 1972-1973
A choice of nightmares/
A cinematic companion
A clockwork history of ideas
A collection of short stories : [a review]
A collector's saga
A collectors collector : an appreciation of Oswald Train
A comedy of terrors
A commerce of ideas
A companion to science fiction
A companion to science fiction
A companion to science fiction [review]
A complete annotated bibliography of SF books 1946-1970 : [a review]
A comprehensive and totally universal listing of every problem a story has ever had/
A conjectural study
A conreport by Marjorie Brunner : 5th congresso europeo di science fiction
A constellation of slave narratives
A convention of cats
A convention report, of sorts
A conversation with Avram Davidson
A conversation with Colin Greenland
A conversation with Keith Freeman
A conversation with Kelly Link
A cover-girl responds
A critical history of "Doctor Who" on television [Review]/
A crowded canvas
A cultural history of a hybrid genre/
A curate's egg : Baxter's J. G. Ballard's Surrealist imagination: spectacular authorship
A dark fantasist and three mainstreamers
A darkling sea by James L. Cambias [Review]
A day at the circus
A deeper grail
A defense of 'The New Adam'
A defense that defends : [a review]
A definition of savage humanism, with autobiographical anecdotes/
A detailed dissection/
A devil for every street
A dialogue between Ideaphilos and Philogos
A diary of Chengdu
A different kick or how to get high without going into orbit
A different species: : adapting to Weinbaum's "The Adaptive Ultimate"
A difficult art
A discontinuous ancestor of science fiction
A discussion at MIT/
A discussion of likely change points for alternate realities, universes and histories
A disease called Perry Rhodan
A disfavour to the genre
A distant technology : the science fiction film and the machine age : [a review]
A double crow
A dream of darkness : William Hope Hodgson's 'The Night Land'
A dull thud rang out in the grey dawn etc.
A dystopian comedy : 'The Old Law'
A fabril imagination/
A fantasia upon -- and dialogue with -- The letters of John W. Campbell, volume one, upon the occasion of the one-hundredth anniversary of his birth, June 8, 1910
A fantastic legacy: Diana Wynne Jones [at] Seven Stories: the national centre for children's books/
A fantastic outpouring
A fantastic voyage to inner space : description in science fiction novelizations
A fantasy lampoon
A feminist critique of science fiction
A few last things
A few sparks in the dark
A few words about science fiction criticism
A fifth sampling of medical myths and errors in genre fiction
A final response
A final slingshot
A flat earth with heroes and flying machines
A footnote to the economics of SF
A fourth survey of medical myths and errors in genre fiction
A fruitful miscellany/
A future for planning : science fiction's cities
A future history chronology : the first hundred years
A galaxy far away. Directed by Tariq Jalil [review]
A game of perfection [review]
A game of perfection by Elisabeth Vonarburg
A general framework for familiar concepts
A gentle flow of ink by Graham Andrews [Review]
A genuine engagement with reality
A ghost story for the atomic age/
A gift for the dictionary wonk
A gift of Le Guin
A global genre in the periphery
A glorious stylist
A good new fantasy
A groundbreaking guide to Arab-language sf
A guide to apocalyptic cinema : [a review]
A gushing Nicholls
A half-naked muscleman in trunks : Charles Atlas, superheroes and comic book masculinity/
A handbook of contemporary fiction for public libraries and school libraries : [a review]
A heart at fire's center : the life and music of Bernard Hermann : [a review]
A history of our world beyond the wave : [a review]
A history of the future : notes for an archive
A history of the future : prophets of progress from H.G. Wells to Isaac Asimov
A history that repeats itself: : Stableford's New Atlantis: a history of scientific romance
A home-concealed woman : the diaries of Magnolia Wynn Le Guin, 1901-1913.
A huge ellipsis/
A hundred years from now" from Randy Hale's Songs from the tall grass./
A is for Brian : a 65th birthday present for Brian W. Aldiss from his family, friends, colleagues, and admirers
A journey in other worlds : [a review]
A key to science fiction : the sublime
A kill in the morning [by] Graeme Shimmin [review]
A killer primer
A kind of humor
A labyrinthine web of icons
A letter to Anthony Boucher
A letter to Mr Farmer
A lexicon of Lud : in respect to 'Lud-in-the-Mist' by Hope Mirrlees
A life of Philip K. Dick : the man who remembered the future
A literary symbiosis : science fiction/fantasy mystery
A literature of ideas
A literature of transgression and subversion
A little light music
A lively return
A longish note on Ursula K. Le Guin's Lavinia/
A lost Leiber
A love letter
A lovely dollop of trollop : A. Bertram Chandler's John Grimes from Rim Worlds burnout to space-lane larrikin
A lyrical hardness
A magazine of the fantastic from 1682
A magisterial anatomy of fantasy/
A man named John
A man of shadows [by] Jeff Noon [review]/
A master of our art
A master's thesis
A masterpiece of packaging
A matter of "boiling roses"
A matter of scale : an interview with Stephen Baxter
A meeting with Richard Cowper/
A memorial to Octavia E. Butler :
A misreading gone too far? : Baudrillard meets Philip K. Dick
A mite disturbed
A modern instance : magic, imagination, and power
A modern synthesis of ignorance
A modest disposal : being a dissertation on the unbearable hucksterism of liteness
A most peculiar voyage/
A most stylish writer/
A motley crew
A much richer phenomenon.../
A multi-faceted pilgrim : Pilgrim presentation
A multitude of imaginable futures/
A multitude of visions
A necessary book
A neglected writer gets her due/
A new Le Guin ?
A new Simak?
A new addition to the critical toolbox
A new campaign for science fiction
A new fantastic journey/
A new metaphor for the future
A new species : gender and science in science fiction : [a review]
A new species : gender and science in science fiction : [a review]
A nickel tour of wells's utopias
A non-fannish guide to fandom :
A non-interactive column
A nonfiction fantasy about Harlan Ellison
A note on Harry Bates/
A note on Richard Grant's "The exile's paradigm"
A note on Ronald Reagan: the magazine of poetry/
A note on the text of 'The Scarlet Fig'
A novel in every genre: : China Miéville and the problems of genre classificvation in the twenty-first century
A novel of character
A nuclear No Exit/
A peaceful species on a small, undistinguished moon
A peerless UFOlogical compendium/
A personal note on Kurt Vonnegut
A personal view
A petition by agents of the dominant culture for the dismissal of science fiction
A pictorial history of science fiction
A pictorial history of science fiction
A place in the sun
A plague on all your houses
A platinum moment for Frederik Pohl : from golden pulp to steely/
A poke in the eye with a sharp spike : Nanoculture and the future of sf
A political history of sf
A post-steampunk manifesto
A postmodern (re)turn to Forbidden Planet
A postmortem analysis of the "post-punk sf" manifesto and movement
A powerful transcendentalism
A practical guide to re-hearing '2001'
A prospect of war by Ian Sales [review]
A punner at the well
A quintessential reference
A range of irritations
A range of reference works
A reader writes : is there such a thing as green toilet paper?
A reader's guide to science fiction : [a review]
A reader's guide to science fiction, ed Baird Searles et.al
A rectangle for Leibowitz or please put me in the upper right corner
A refusal to sign the mundane manifesto
A remedy in book jackets
A remembrance of FN
A reply
A reply
A reply to Wingrove and Edwards
A reply to a lady
A reply to the above
A report on the first science fiction foundation masterclass in science fiction criticism/
A requiem for Astounding
A research guide to science fiction studies : an annotated checklist of primary and secondary sources for fantasy and science fiction : [a review]
A response from Adam Roberts/
A response to David Myers re : The Clarion credo
A response to Professor Fekete's "five theses"
A retreat from reality
A reverie for Mister Ray : [a review]
A reverie for Mister Ray : reflections on life, death, and speculative fiction
A review of 'the fifth head of cerberus'
A review of L. Ron Hubbard's 'Battlefield earth'
A review of Robert Heinlein's 'The number of the beast'
A revolution of falling expectations
A rhetoric of the unreal : studies in narrative and structure, especially of the fantastic
A richly-stocked estate
A road not taken
A sadly unsatisfied reader
A scanner darkly by Philip K. Dick [review]

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