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• Between Mottile and Ambiloxi: Cordwainer Smith as a Southern Writer

  Author:ALAN C. ELMSFrom:Extrapolation (Vol. 42, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Summer 20016,747 words Article * Cordwainer Smith's science fiction has often been described as Chinese in form and to some extent in themes and characterization (Pierce). Beyond the evident qualities of the fiction itself, there are good reasons to...

• From 'Nightfall' to Dawn: Asimov as an Acrophobe

  From: Extrapolation

  Summer 19874,320 words Critical essay As a psychologist specializing in psychobiography, and as a science fiction fan for over thirty-five years, I have become intrigued by the psychology of science fiction writers. Why do they write, and why science...

• The Mother of Oz: L. Frank Baum

  From: Uncovering Lives: The Uneasy Alliance of Biography and Psychology

  199411,135 words Critical essay [(essay date 1994) In the following essay, Elms studies Baum's biography with reference to aspects of gender imbalance evident throughout the "Oz" series. He notes that these elements are manifested as a promotion of...

• From 'Nightfall' to Dawn: Asimov as Acrophobe

  From: Extrapolation

  Summer 19874,131 words Critical essay As a psychologist specializing in psychobiography, and as a science fiction fan for over thirty-five years, I have become intrigued by the psychology of science fiction writers. Why do they write, and why science...