SF REFS
See also: [SF index] [SF General] [SF Mechanics] [SF Writing] [SF Effects] [SF Elements] -^_6 [LITERATURE INDEX] [The ALT LIST!] (ah, those literary weirdos!) [terms] (index of indexes)SF REFS
Something approaching a bibliography (well approaching assymptotically ?sp?). "The Limits of Infinity: The American Science Fiction Film", by Vivian Carol Sobchack, LCCN PN'1995.9'S26'S57'1980, ISBN 0.498.02210.2 (Cranbury, NJ, 1980). The revised/expanded edition: "Screening Space: The American Science Fiction Film", by Vivian Sobchack, LCCN PN'1995.9'.S26'S57'1987, ISBN 0.8044.6886.9 (Ungar, New York, 1987). "Alien Encounters: Anatomy of Science Fiction", by Mark Rose, LCCN PN 3433.8'R6, ISBN 0.674.01565.7, (Harvard University Press, 1981, Cambridge, Massachusetts). "Critical Encounters: Writers and Themes in Science Fiction", Edited by Dick Riley, LCCN 3433.8'C73, ??-ISBN-??, (Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1978, New York). "Three Tomorrows: American, British, and Soviet Science Fiction", by John Griffiths, LCCN PN 3433.8'G7, ISBN 0.389.20008.5, (Barnes & Nobel Books (orig MacMillian), 1980, Totowa, New Jersey) "The Dreams our Stuff is Made of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World", by Thomas M. Disch, LCCN PN 3433.5'D57'1998, ISBN 0.684.82405.1, (The Free Press (div of Simon & Schuster), 1998, New York). It should be noted that the TOC of the book (by Disch one of the Earth's finest writers) is quite telling: 1 The Right to Lie 2 Poe, Our Embarrassing Ancestor 3 From the Earth to the Moon -- in 101 Years 4 How Science Fiction Defused the Bomb 5 Star Trek, or the Future as a Life Style 6 Can Girls Play Too? Feminising SF 7 When You Wish Upon a Star -- SF as Religion 8 Republicans on Mars -- SF as Military Strategy 9 THe THird World and Other Alien Nations 10 THe Future of an Illusion -- SF Beyond the Year 2000 "Science Fiction, Social Conflict, and War", ed by Philip John Davies, LCCN PN 3433.5'S35'1990, ISBN 0.7190.3451.5, (Manchester Univ Press, 1990, Manchester) "Co-ordinates: Placing Science Fiction and Fantasy", ed by George E. Slusser, Eric S. Rabkin, & Robert Scholes, LCCN PN 3433.2'C66 1983, ??-ISBN-??, (Souther Illinois Univ Press, 1983, Cardondale and Edwardsville) "FutureSpeak: A Fan's Guide to the Language of Science Fiction", by Roberta Rogow (Forward by C.J. Cherryh), LCCN PN 3443.4'R64'1991, ISBN 1.55778.347.0, (Paragon House, 1991, New York). An interesting book, a bit patchy in places, but an altogether good start. Oddly enough Ursula K. Le Guin is absent as is Philip K. Dick, Rod Serling, and Windham, ... hmmm? "The End of the World", ed by Eric S. Rabkin, Martin H. Greenbert, & Joseph D. Olander, LCCN PN 3433.6'E6'1983, ISBN 0.0893.1046.5, (Southern Illinois Univ Press, 1983, Carbondale and Edwardsville). "Dimensions of Science Fiction", by William Sims Beinbridge, LCCN PN 3433.5'B35'1986, ISBN 0.674.20725.4 (Harvard Univ Press, 1986, Cabridge, Massachusetts) "Sciecne Fiction Dialogs", ed by Gary Wolfe, LCCN PN 3433.8'S36'1982, ISBN 0.89733.067.6, (Academy Chicago Press, 1982, Chicago). Notably includes: "Essays by Brian Aldiss, James Gunn, Algis Budrys, et alisquam, as well as correspondence between H.G. Wells and Olaf Stabledon" "Fantasy Literature: And Approach to Reality", by T. E. Apter, LCCN PN 3435'A65'1982, ISBN 0.253.32101.8, (Indiana Univ Press, 1982, Bloomington). An excellent analysis/summary text, chapter titles: 1 Intro: Fantasy and Psycho-analysis 2 Fantasy as Morality: Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' and Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. 3 The Uncanny: Freud, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Edgar Alan Poe. 4 The Double: Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Hoffman's The Devil's Elixirs, and Dostoevsky's The Double. 5 Fantasitc Objectivty: Franz Kafka 6 The Fantasy of Order: Vladimir Nabokov 7 Logical Fantasy: Jorge Luis Borges 8 Psycho-Analysis as Fantasy. "A Rhetoric of the Un-Real: Studies in narrative & structure, Especially of the Fantastic", by Christine Brooke-Rose, LLCN PN 3435'B76, ISBN 0.521.22561.2, (Camb Univ Press, 1981, Cambridge). Another excellent fusion of ideas! "THe Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy & SF", by (big drum roll here!) Ursula K. Le Guin, ed and with introductions by Susan Wood, LCCN PN 3435'L4, ISBN 0.399.12325.3, (G.P. Putnams & Sons, 1978, New York).