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Contents:

• viii - Preface and Notes on Contributors (SF Studies) - (1976) - essay by R. D. Mullen
• xiii - The Significant Context of SF: A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation - (1976) - essay by Darko Suvin
• 1 - On the Structural Analysis of Science Fiction - (1973) - essay by Stanislaw Lem (trans. of Od strukturalizmu do tradycjonalizmu) [as by Stanislaw Lem]
• 8 - Towards an Aesthetic of Science Fiction - (1975) - essay by Joanna Russ
• 16 - The Time-Travel Story and Related Matters of SF Structuring - (1974) - essay by Stanislaw Lem (variant of The Time Travel Story and Related Matters of SF Structuring) [as by Stanislaw Lem]
• 28 - Generic Discontinuities in SF: Aldiss' Starship - (1976) - essay by Fredric Jameson
• 40 - Sunken Atlantis and the Utopia Question - (1976) - essay by C. R. La Bossiere and R. D. Mullen
• 48 - On an Essay by James Blish - (1976) - essay by Franz Rottensteiner
• 50 - A Reply to Mr Rottensteiner - (1976) - essay by James Blish
• 52 - Surveying the Battlefield - (1976) - essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 54 - A Response from a Marxist - (1976) - essay by H. Bruce Franklin
• 56 - Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis - (1976) - essay by Chan Davis [as by Chandler Davis]
• 58 - Playing Around with Creation: Philip Jose Farmer - (1976) - essay by Franz Rottensteiner
• 62 - SF Writers, the Great Consensus, and Non-Alignment - (1976) - essay by Darko Suvin
• 64 - A Reaction to SFS #2 - (1976) - essay by Damon Knight
• 65 - Novels by Brunner and Levin - (1976) - essay by Robert Scholes
• 66 - A Dialogue Betweeen Ideaphilos and Philologos (Intended to Prove Little and Clarify Much) - (1976) - essay by Robert M. Philmus
• 69 - What Do You Mean - Marxism ? - (1976) - essay by Mack Reynolds
• 70 - In Rebuttal - (1976) - essay by Franz Rottensteiner
• 71 - In Retrospect - essay by Fredric Jameson
• 75 - A Response to Damon Knight - (1976) - essay by Franz Rottensteiner
• 76 - Radical Rhapsody and Romantic Recoil in the Age of Anticipation: A Chapter in the History of SF - (1976) - essay by Darko Suvin
• 91 - Dreams and Doctrines in Frankenstein - (1976) - essay by Aija Ozolins
• 100 - The SF of H. H. Rosny the Elder - (1976) - essay by J.-P. Vernier
• 108 - Childhood's End: A Median Stage of Adolescence - (1976) - essay by David N. Samuelson
• 121 - Utopian and Fantastic Dualities in Robert Graves's Watch the North Wind Rise - (1976) - essay by Robert H. Canary
• 128 - Nabokov's Ada as Science Fiction - (1976) - essay by Roy Arthur Swanson
• 141 - Seeking Only Man: Language and Ethics in Solaris - (1976) - essay by Edward Balcerzan
• 146 - Wholeness and Balance: An Addendum - (1976) - essay by Douglas Barbour
• 155 - On Norman Spinrad's The Iron Dream - (1976) - essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 159 - Introductory Note to The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick - (1976) - essay by Darko Suvin
• 160 - The Manuscripts and Books of Philip K. Dick - (1976) - essay by R. D. Mullen and Willis E. McNelly
• 164 - P. K. Dick's Opus: Artifice as Refuge and World View (Introductory Reflections) - (1976) - essay by Darko Suvin
• 178 - Foreword to The Preserving Machine - (1976) - essay by Philip K. Dick
• 180 - Dick and Meta-SF - (1976) - essay by Carlo Pagetti
• 187 - After Armageddon: Character Systems in Dr. Bloodmoney - (1976) - essay by Fredric Jameson
• 198 - Dick's Maledictory Web: About and Around Martian Timeslip - (1976) - essay by Brian W. Aldiss
• 203 - Ubik: The Deconstruction of Bourgeois SF - (1975) - essay by Peter Fitting
• 210 - Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans - (1975) - essay by Stanislaw Lem (trans. of Poslowie do "Ubika" Ph. Dicka) [as by Stanislaw Lem]
• 223 - Le Guin's Lathe of Heaven and the Role of Dick: The False Reality as Mediator - (1976) - essay by Ian Watson
• 232 - A Response to Dr. Lem - (1976) - essay by Damon Knight
• 233 - Introductory Note to The Science Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin - (1976) - essay by Darko Suvin
• 234 - Ursula K. Le Guin: A Select Bibliography - (1976) - essay by Jeff Levin
• 238 - American SF and The Other - (1975) - essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 240 - An Approach to the Structure of Le Guin's SF - (1976) - essay by Rafail Nudelman
• 251 - World Reduction in Le Guin: The Emergence of Utopian Narrative - (1976) - essay by Fredric Jameson
• 261 - The Forest as Metaphor for Mind: "The Word for World is Forest" and "Vaster Than Empires and More Slow" - (1976) - essay by Ian Watson
• 267 - Public and Private Imperatives in Le Guin's Novels - (1976) - essay by John Huntington
• 273 - The Politics of Le Guin's Opus - (1976) - essay by David L. Porter
• 278 - Wholeness and Balance in the Hainish Novels of Ursula K. Le Guin - (1976) - essay by Douglas Barbour
• 279 - Ambiguity in Utopia: The Dispossessed - (1976) - essay by Judah Bierman
• 286 - The Art of Social-Science Fiction: The Ambiguous Utopian Dialectics of Ursula K. Le Guin - (1976) - essay by Donald F. Teall
• 295 - Parables of De-Alienation: Le Guin's Widdershins Dance - (1976) - essay by Darko Suvin

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