Volume 36 Issue 4, Winter 1995
• Contributors
• Editorial
• Jan Weiss (1892-1972), Karel ?apek’s Overlooked Contemporary • essay by Ivan Adamovi?
• Repetition and Unreadability: J. G. Ballard’s Vermilion Sands • essay by Roger Luckhurst
• Beyond the Black Hole: The Emergence of Science Fiction Themes in the Recent Work of Martin Amis • essay by David Moyle
• James Gunn and The Dreamers: Epitomes of an Evolving Science Fiction • essay by Christopher Mckitterick
• Inverting the Ideal World: Carnival and the Carnivalesque in Contemporary Utopian Science Fiction • essay by Wendy E. Erisman
• The Martian Chronicles and Farenheit 451: Ray Bradbury’s Cold War Novels • essay by Kevin Hoskinson
• The Final Encyclopedia: Gordon R. Dickson’s Creative Universe • essay by Susan M. Butvin
• Book Reviews • essays by Richard D. Erlich, Douglas Robillard, and Darren Harris-Fain
• Index to Volume 36

Volume 37 Issue 1, Spring 1996
• Contributors
• Editorial
• Eatbugs, Edgar, and Odin: The Influence of Shakespeare and Northern Mythology on Williams’s Tailchaser’s Song essay ba S. A. Cowan
• The Prince on Arrakis: Frank Herbert’s Dialogue with Machiavelli • essay by Kevin Mulcahy
• Frankenstein's Many Readers • essay by Wayne A. Chandler
• The Malice of Inanimate Objects: Exchange in M. R. James’s Ghost Stories • essay by Robert Michalski
• Fantasy Fiction and Fantasy Criticism in Some Nineteenth-Century Periodicals • essay by Ruth Berman
• Book Reviews • essays by Donald M. Hassler, Neal Baker, Alan C. Elms, and Neal Baker

Volume 37 Issue 2, Summer 1996
• Contributors
• Editorial
• Camouflage in Fantastic Fiction and Film • essay by Fiona Kelleghan
• Private Psi: Joan D. Vinge’s Catspaw • essay by Joe Sanders
• Posthistory 101 • essay by Michael Andre-Driussi
• The Blind Spot in Science Fiction: A Reconsideration • essay by Lawrence Birken
• Robert E. Howard’s Hyborian Tales and the Question of Race in Fantastic Literature • essay by Lorenzo Ditommaso
• Letters correspondence from Rich Erlich
• Book Reviews • essays by Donald M. Hassler, Richard D. Erlich, Timothy J. Sramcik, G. Warlock Vance, Gary Westfahl, Cleopatra Kontouli, and Heather MacLean

Volume 37 Issue 3, Fall 1996
• Contributors
• Editorial
• Just a Bunch of Words: The Image of the Secluded Family and the Problem of ?0?0?, in P. K. Dick’s Time Out of Joint • essay by Umberto Rossi
• Myth and Illiteracy: Bill and Ted’s Explicated Adventures • essay by Lynne Lundquist
• Miles Vorkosigan and the Power of Words: A Study of Lois McMaster Bujold’s Unlikely Hero • essay by Anne L. Haehl
• Poul Anderson’s Time Patrol as Anti-Alternate History • essay by Karen Hellekson
• What “Carried the Trick”? Mass Exploitation and the Decline of Thought in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 • essay by Rafeeq O. Mcgiveron
• Recycling the Texts of the Culture: Walter M. Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz • essay by David Seed
• Letters correspondence from Brian Aldiss and David Moyle
• Book Reviews • essays by Brian W. Aldiss, Jared C. Lobdell, Darren Harris-Fain, Timothy J. Sramcik, and Donald M. Hassler

Volume 37 Issue 4, Winter 1996
• Contributors
• Editorial
• Where No Market Has Gone Before: “The Science-Fiction Industry” and the Star Trek Industry essay by Gary Westfahl
• Acts of Attention at the Borderlands: Le Guin’s The Beginning Place Revisited • essay by Carol Franko
• The Story, Plato, and Ursula K. Le Guin • essay by Warren Rochelle
• Chaos and Utopia: Social Transformation in Woman on the Edge of Time • essay by Elham Afnan
• Stone Pastorals: Three Men on the Side of the Horses • essay by Jared C. Lobdell
• J. L. Borges’ s Lovecraftian Tale: “There Are More Things” in the Dream Than We Know • essay by C. J. Buchanan
• Book Reviews • essays by Donald M. Hassler, Samuel H. Vasbinder, Neal Baker, and Donald M. Hassler
• Index to Volume 37

Volume 38 Issue 1, Spring 1997
• Contributors
• Editorial
• Some Thoughts on American SF • essay by Joe Patrouch
• A “Literary Anthropology” of the Hainish, Derived from the Tracings of the Species Guin • essay by Peter Brigg
• Ironizing Utopia • essay by Gorman Beauchamp
• One Ring to Fool Them All, One Ring to Blind Them: The Propaganda of The Lord of the Rings • essay by David Critchett
• The Density of Utopian Destiny in Robinson’s Red Mars • essay by Carol Franko
• From Misogyny to Homophobia and Back Again: The Play of Erotic Triangles in Stephen King’s Christine • essay by Andrew Schopp
• Letters correspondence from Neil Easterbrook and Toby Widdicombe
• Book Reviews • essays by Norman Fischer and Neil Barron

Volume 38 Issue 2, Summer 1997
• Contributors
• Editorial
• Robert A. Heinlein’s Primers of Politics • essay by Fred Erisman
• “Do You Know the Legend of Hercules and Antaeus?” The Wilderness in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 • essay by Rafeeq O. Mcgiveron
• The Power of Women in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Tehanu • essay by Susan Mclean
• Tracing the Modern Self in Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics: Qfwfq’s Journey through Spacetime • essay by Walter J. Mucher
• Science Fiction Film in the Genological Jungle • essay by Philippe Mather
• Re-Vision: A Comparison of A Canticle for Leibowitz and the Novellas Originally Published • essay by Alexandra H. Olsen
• Ambivalences in the Venus of Pamela Sargent • essay by Donald M. Hassler
• Letters correspondence from Damon Knight
• Book Reviews • essays by Roger Craik, Donald E. Davidson, Gary Westfahl, and Bennett Lovett-Graff
• Conference Notice

Volume 39 Issue 2, Summer 1998
• Contributors
• Editorial
• Jack Williamson: An Interview, with Notes • essay by H. L. Drake
• Playing with Time: Jack Dann Approaches the Holocaust as “A Different Universe of Discourse” • essay by Marleen Barr
• Remembering the Future: Science and Positivism from Isaac Asimov to Gregory Benford • essay by Carl Freedman
• Jules Verne, Herman Melville, and the “Question of the Monster” • essay by Carter Kaplan
• Four Levels of Reality in Philip K. Dick’s Time Out of Joint • essay by Yves Potin
• Book Reviews • essays by James R. Simmons, Joseph D. Miller, G. Warlock Vance, Julanne Montville, Peter Christian Marbais, C. T. Fitzgerald, Gary Hubbell, and Peter Christian Marbais

Volume 39 Issue 3, Fall 1998
• Contributors
• Editorial
• Moore and Gibbons’s Watchmen: Exact Personifications of Science • essay by Brent Fishbaugh
• Utopian Cycles: Trends in American Visions of the Alternative Society • essay by James R. Simmons
• Tiptree’s Colonial Imagination: The Ambivalent Home of a Haploid Heart • essay by Kevin Carollo
• “The Burden of Intolerable Strangeness”: Using C. S. Lewis to See Beyond Realism in the Fiction of A. S. Byatt • essay by Elisabeth Anne
• Imaginative Forecasting, Models, and Environmental Chaos • essay by Neal Baker
• James Blish and Alexander Pope: A Study in Cases • essay by Jenna Hall
• Dick on the Human: From Wubs to Bounty Hunters to Bishops • essay by Ryan Gillis
• Letters • correspondence from James Gunn and Don Hassler
• Book Reviews • essays by Julanne Montville and Donald M. Hassler

Volume 39 Issue 4, Winter 1998
• Contributors
• Editorial
• A ????? or Two Concerning the ????? of Umberto Rossi and Philip K. Dick’s Time Out of Joint • essay by Lorenzo Dltommaso
• Leslie F. Stone’s “Men with Wings” and “Women with Wings”: A Woman’s View of War Between the Wars • essay by Batya Weinbaum
• Science Fiction During the Brazilian Dictatorship • essay by Roberto De Sousa Causo
• The Role of the Emersonian “Poet” in Harry Martinson’s Aniara: A Review of Man in Time and Space • essay by Scott Andrew Smith
• Animachinations: Twenty-four Frames per Second of Still Life • essay by Tim Blackmore
• The Scientific Appropriation of Female Reproductive Power in Junior • essay by Amy Cuomo
• The Origins of Inspiration: Winwood Reade’s Role in the Foundation of Isaac Asimov’s Psychohistory • essay by David Labounty
• Book Reviews • essays by Donald M. Hassler, Peter Briggs, and M. R. Kelly
• Index to Volume 39

Volume 40 Issue 1, Spring 1999
• Contributors
• Editorial
• Clogging Up the (ln)Human Works: Harlan Ellison’s Apocalyptic Postmodern Visions • essay by Oscar De Los Santos
• Rape, Romance, and Consent in Star Trek: The Next Generation • essay by Robin Roberts
• Community Triumphant: American Romantic/Pragmatic Rhetoric in John Barnes’s Orbital Resonance • essay by Warren Rochelle
• “Starry-Eyed Internationalists” versus the Social Darwinists: Heinlein’s Transnational Governments • essay by Rafeeq O. Mcgiveron
• History as It Ought to Have Been: The Arthurian Fantasies of David Gemmell • essay by John J. Doherty
• Sharyn McCrumb’s Comic Critiques of SF Fandom • essay by Fred Erisman
• Book Reviews • essay by Kyle W. Friedow
• Letters • correspondence from Paul Brians

Volume 40 Issue 2, Summer 1999
• Contributors
• Editorial
• The Perils of Experiment: Jules Verne and the American Lone Genius • essay by George Slusser
• The Future as the Past Viewed from the Present: Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age • essay by Peter Brigg
• The Eternal Circle:The Beginning and Ending of E. R. Eddison’s The Worm Ouroboros • essay by David A. Oakes
• An Interview with Hal Clement • essay by H. L. Drake
• Bringing Order Out of Chaos: Huxley’s Time Must Have a Stop and Vedanta • essay by Janet L. Goodrich
• The Rhetoric of an Impossible Object: Gods, Chems, and Science Fantasy in Gene Wolfe’s Book of the Long Sun • essay by John Gerlach
• Tracking Grendel: The Uncanny in Beowulf • essay by David Sandner
• Book Reviews • essays by Kathe Davis and Brian Taves

Volume 40 Issue 3, Fall 1999
• Contributors
• Editorial
• Is Science Fiction a Who or a What? • essay by Brett Bourbon
• The Advent of Literary Dystopia • essay by Carter Kaplan
• The Womanization of Utopias: Sally Miller Gearhart’s Rhetorical Fiction • essay by Jeana Delrosso
• A Specter Is Haunting Fritz Leiber: The Influence of M. R. James on “The Pale BrownThing” • essay by Gerald Adair
• The Language of Extremity: The Four Elements in Golding’s The Inheritors • essay by Langdon Elsbree
• Difference Engines and Other Infernal Devices: History According to Steampunk • essay by Steffen Hantke
• Letters • correspondence from Farah Mendlesohn
• Book Reviews • essays by John Grant, Donald M. Hassler, Dirk Remley, Donald M. Hassler, and Donald M. Hassler
• Call for Papers: Horror

Volume 40 Issue 4, Winter 1999
• Contributors
• Editorial
• Carry On, Extrapolation! • essay by Alice S. Clareson
• The Battle of Dorking: Second Thoughts • essay by I. F. Clarke
• Serendipities of a Science Fiction Scholar • essay by Darren Harris-Fain
• On the Trail of a Pioneer: Dorothy Scarborough, the First Academic Critic of Science Fiction • essay by Gary Westfahl
• The Bibliographic Control of Science Fiction: A Quarter-Century of Change • essay by Hal W. Hall and Wendi Arant
• American SF, 1940s-1950s: Where’s the Book? The New York Nexus • essay by Elizabeth Cummins
• “Comes Now the Power”: Roger Zelazny’s Transformation of Romantic Poetic Themes • essay by Thomas L. Wymer
• Prehistoric Gender Politics • essay by Clyde Wilcox
• The Inhabited Place • essay by Brian Aldiss
• From Shakespeare to Le Guin: Authors as Auteurs • essay by Richard D. Erlich
• “Orr” and “Orwell”: Le Guin’s The Lathe of Heaven and Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four • essay by Laura Johnston
• Letters • correspondence from Alice S. Clareson
• Index to Volume 40

Volume 41 Issue 1, Spring 2000
• Contributors
• Guest Editorial • essay by Gary Westfahl
• Our Favorite Cliché: A World Filled with Idiots … or Why Fiction Routinely Depicts Society and Its Citizens as Fools • essay by David Brin
• Gulliver Unravels: Generic Fantasy and the Loss of Subversion • essay by John Grant
• Dispatches from the trenches: Science Fiction in the Classroom • essay by Sheila Finch
• Ambivalence toward “Classes” or “Genres”: The Cases of Hal Clement and Anthony Trollope • essay by Donald M. Hassler
• Revamping the Rut Regarding Reading and Writing about Feminist Science Fiction: Or, I Want to Engage in “Procrustean Bedmaking” • essay by Marleen S. Barr
• The Use of Space-Travel and Rocket-Ship Imagery to Market Commercial Music: How Some Jazz Albums from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s Burned Brightly but Fizzled Fast • essay by Morris B. Holbrook and Barbara Stern
• Who Governs Science Fiction? • essay by Gary Westfahl
• Book Reviews • essays by Matthew Kapell, Dirk Remley, and G. Warlock Vance

Volume 42 Issue 1, Spring 2001
• Contributors
• Editorial
• Walter Mosley’s Blue Light: (Double Consciousness)squared • essay by David L. Smith
• “Was It I that Killed the Babies?”: Children as Disruptive Signifiers in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Always Coming Home • essay by Margaret Hostetler
• Backtrack to the Future: John E. Stith’s/John Dos Passos’s Manhattan Transfer • essay by Joe Nazare
• King Thorin’s Mines: The Hobbit as Victorian Adventure Novel • essay by William H. Green
• Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America and the American Enterprise • essay by Christopher J. Galdieri
• No Longer Divided: Wholeness in Winter Rose • essay by Jessica Greenlee
• Letters
• Book Reviews • essays by Marleen S. Barr, lie Lu, and Scott H. Urban

Volume 42 Issue 2, Summer 2001
• Contributors
• Editorial
• Breaking the Mind Circle: De Quincey’s “The English Mail Coach” and the Origins of Science Fiction • essay by George Slusser
• Between Mottile and Ambiloxi: Cordwainer Smith as a Southern Writer • essay by Alan C. Elms
• From Free Love to the Free-Fire Zone: Heinlein’s Mars, 1939–1987 • essay by Rafeeq O. McGiveron
• Multiple Perspectives in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Series • essay by William Dynes
• An Easton Press Science Fiction Bibliography • essay by David L. Williams
• Letters correspondence by David Ketterer
• Book Reviews • essays by Carl Freedman, Deirdre Storm, G. Warlock Vance, and Mary Lazar

Volume 42 Issue 3, Fall 2001
• Contributors
• Editorial
• Science Fiction and the Two Cultures: Reflections after the Snow-Leavis Controversy • essay by Carl Freedman
• Syncretism: A Federalist Approach to Canadian Science Fiction • essay by Neal Baker
• Listening to Ourselves: Herbert’s Dune, “the Voice” and Performing the Absolute • essay by Paul Q. Kucera
• Plants: The Ultimate Alien • essay by Lynda H. Schneekloth
• Bibliography of Works by Judith Merril • essay by Elizabeth Cummins
• Letters correspondence from David Williams
• Book Reviews • essays by Anthony C. Alessandrini and Peter Marbais

Volume 42 Issue 4, Winter 2001
• Contributors
• A Note from the Publisher
• Editorial
• The Messiah and the Greens: The Shape of Environmental Action in Dune and Pacific Edge • essay by Susan Stratton
• The Interpretative Journey in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness • essay by Christine Cornell
• Good News from the Modern Molière: Kessel, Molière, and Catalytic Closure • essay by Rhonda V. Wilcox
• Performing Science Fiction: Television, Theater, and Gender in Star Trek: The Experience • essay by Robin Roberts
• Sir Julius Vogel’s Anno Domini 2000; or Woman’s Destiny: On Mispredicting the Future • essay by Peter Brigg
• A Canticle for Liebowitz: A Song for Benjamin • essay by Lewis Fried
• Beyond Ethnicity and Gender: China Mountain Zhang’s Transcendent Techniques • essay by Yupei Zhou
• Letters correspondence from David L. Williams, Rafeeq O. McGiveron, and Carl Freedman
• Book Reviews • essay by Richard D. Erlich
• Index to Volume 42