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Contents:

• vii - Introduction (Science Fiction Studies, Second Series: Selected Articles on Science Fiction 1976-1977) - essay by Marc Angenot
• x - Notes on Contributors - essay by uncredited
• 1 - Lucian's True History as SF - essay by S. C. Fredericks
• 13 - Iambulus' Islands of the Sun and Hellenistic Literary Utopias - essay by David Winston
• 22 - The True, the False, and the Truly False: Lucian's Philosophical Science Fiction - essay by Roy Arthur Swanson
• 33 - The Alternate Islands: A Chapter in the History of SF, with a Select Bibliography of the SF of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance - essay by Darko Suvin
• 42 - The Reading and Writing of Utopia in Denis Diderot's Supplement au voyage de Bougainville - essay by Christie V. McDonald
• 48 - German Theories of Science Fiction: Jean Paul, Kurd Lasswitz, and After - essay by William B. Fischer
• 59 - Wells in Three Volumes? A sketch of British Publishing in the 19th Century - essay by George Locke
• 64 - News from Nowhere, The Time Machine and the Break-up of Classical Realism - essay by Patrick Parrinder
• 74 - The Time Machine and the End of Man - essay by Alex Eisenstein
• 78 - Utopia and Epic: Ideological Confrontation in Jack London's The Iron Heel - essay by Nadia Khouri
• 86 - Science Fiction and Allied Literature - essay by David Ketterer
• 97 - Mythic Structure in Cordwainer Smith's "The Game of Rat and Dragon" - essay by Gary K. Wolfe
• 104 - Invisible Men and Women: The Disappearance of Character in Science Fiction - essay by Scott Russell Sanders [as by Scott Sanders]
• 115 - The Lost Canticles of Walter M. Miller, Jr. - essay by David M. Samuelson
• 138 - Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" Novels: Historical Materialism Distorted into Cyclical Psycho-History - essay by Charles Elkins
• 148 - Ursula K. Le Guin and the Decline of Romantic Love - essay by Robert Plank
• 155 - A Response to the Le Guin Issue - essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 158 - From Technique to Critique: Knowledge and Human Interests in John Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar, The Jagged Orbit, and The Sheep Look Up - essay by Michael Stern
• 176 - The Future History and Development of the English Language - essay by Walter E. Meyers
• 189 - The Triumph of Prophecy: Science Fiction and Nuclear Power in the Post-Hiroshima Period - essay by Albert I. Berger
• 196 - J. G. Ballard and the Limits of Mainstream SF - essay by Charles Nicol
• 204 - The Surreal Translations of Samuel R. Delany - essay by Peter S. Alterman
• 214 - Cosmology and Science Fiction - essay by Stanislaw Lem [as by Stanislaw Lem]
• 217 - Stanislaw Lem, Rationalist and Visionary - essay by Jerzy Jarzebski
• 234 - Lem in Review (June 2238) - essay by Michael Kandel [as by Michael Kandel V]
• 238 - Introduction: The Sociology of Science Fiction - essay by Darko Suvin
• 243 - Discontent in American Science Fiction - essay by Gérard Klein
• 254 - An Approach to the Social Functions of American SF - essay by Charles Elkins
• 258 - Science-Fiction Fans in Socio-Economic Perspective: Factors in the Social Consciousness of a Genre - essay by Albert I. Berger
• 272 - English-Language SF as a Socio-Cultural Phenomenom - essay by A. E. Levin
• 282 - Reflections from West Germany on the Science-Fiction Market - essay by Dieter Hasselblatt
• 289 - The American SF Subculture - essay by Linda Fleming
• 297 - Violence in SF, and Censorship in West Germany - essay by Rudolf Stefen
• 303 - On SF Comics: Some Notes for a Future Encyclopedia - essay by Bernt Kling
• 309 - SF: A Publisher's View - essay by Wolfgang Jeschke
• 313 - Le Guin's "Aberrant" Opus: Escaping the Trap of Discontent - essay by Gérard Klein
• 321 - A Select Bibliography of the Sociology of Literature - essay by Marc Angenot

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