Science Fiction is illuminated by world class scholars and fiction writers, who introduce the
history, concepts and contexts necessary to understanding the genre. Their groundbreaking …

The recent economic difficulties in Japan make now the perfect time to look back on Japan's
role in recent science fiction. Japan has dominated the future in sf of the last twenty years …

This chapter identifies three zones where law and science fiction intertwine. It deploys the
idea of 'magnitude'–a sense of splitting a singular law and science fiction opus into distinct …

Look up Mike Hodges's 1980 film Flash Gordon in guides to SF, and you will find almost
universal disdain. John Brosnan considers it a 'garish, crass and patronizing… sorry …

Los cómics adaptados al cine dominan las carteleras y generan una recaudación de
taquilla muy superior a cualquier otro estreno que pretenda competir con ellos. Suponen el …

The correlation between the racial tensions of 1920's America and the" Yellow Peril" focus of
the emerging science fiction field has been duly noted by scholars in recent years. Thomas …

This study seeks to interrogate, explore and unmask the foundational features of the cultural
discursive narrative and product that is popularly called the “alien abduction” in American …

The review copy of The Straits of Messina I was sent by the editor of Utopian Stud ies had a
note with it from a Jerry Kaufman asking" Why this book?"; and my tele phoned question to …

1. The principle is that of reader prerogatives against unreasonable claims of authority by
authors. Most bibliographical matters can be handled in lists of references at the end of …

This study of images of Mongols in Western, principally American, consciousness embraces
the influence of medieval conceptions of the Mongols as monsters that grew in their …