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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 48, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAs one reader of this journal, I can clearly see now with anticipation ways that the issue to follow this one in the fall of this year will have a look and feel of some difference. A new and skilled team of editors will...
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 43, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedOne year ago for the Fall 2001 issue when this journal was still published by Kent State University Press, Carl Freedman wrote the lead essay that explored the two cultures of the arts and sciences. Now our publisher is...
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 46, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedFrom volume 43 in the year 2002 when the journal moved from Ohio to Texas, the number of pages published each year and the appearance have grown and improved. Beginning with the spring issue 2003, a "Special WisCon...
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 51, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedFuture Grammar. Andrew Milner, ed. Tenses of Imagination: Raymond Williams on Science Fiction, Utopia and Dystopia. Volume 7, Ralahine Utopian Studies. Oxford, UK: Peter Lang, 2010. 253 pp. ISBN 9783039118267. $51.95...
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 47, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA Futurian storyteller from that highly-political decade of the 1930s who has learned art and who has lived long enough to watch politics and affairs change and change again can represent well the particular mixed...
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 50, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed* Over the five decades now since my good friend Tom Clareson conceived this journal for the study and chronicle of sf, we have watched profound changes in the work. We have seen set in place a skeletal scaffolding of...
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From:Yearbook of English Studies (Vol. 37, Issue 2)ABSTRACTS This essay is concerned with some of the responses to the 'toughness' of golden-age SF and to the lack of confidence in that literature in any compromise positions in the harsh realities of species...
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 45, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMay 2004. It does seem to be a full, fecund, and promising spring for science fiction and for commentary on science fiction. Not only is this issue reflective and full, but also we eagerly await the upcoming issue of...
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 43, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed* Lord Byron's grandfather was the Admiral John Byron, who set sail in 1764 to triangulate high latitudes of the South Pacific. In British naval history, he was surpassed by Captain James Cook whose abilities to...
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 44, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed* Harlan Ellison came to Northeast Ohio in the spring. He had been born and raised in Cleveland, and so he was coming home again in a sense. Of course, it was at the 1954 Worldcon in Cleveland that Harlan had stood up...
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe advent of the Internet provides the public with a powerful information tool for accessing science fiction novels online. However, users of this new information technology should not expect to experience the reading...
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 45, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed[Delivered January 2001 in Hong Kong by invitation of Gary Westfahl] Perhaps the urge to travel and, what is more, to make real discoveries is as strong in all of us as it was in Keats when he confessed that he had...
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 38, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedA written work, whether it be fiction or nonfiction, mirrors the character of its author. In Sir Thomas Malory's description of his protagonist Arthur, Malory's belief in chivalric ideals are given its supreme height....
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 45, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe editing and publishing of this journal have changed, as our readers know, in recent years. The look and feel now have more heft. The soul and inner dynamics have developed, nearly to the point of seeming to me...
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 41, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed* After my wife and I watched the video of Stephen King's The Dark Half, my sense of being a twin was particularly strong. [1] I am particularly divided professionally. Since the arguments for cultural studies, new...
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 39, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA writer has suggested editors should refrain from offering personal statements to readers in journal editorials and instead remain silent and allow the journal process to speak for itself. An editor reflecting upon this...
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 44, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe items in this issue of the journal, as well as my thoughts in writing this column, spin with a sense of place, or the utopist's sense of "no place." The issue contains work about SF in Brazil, work about the mythic...
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 40, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedFantasy writer Isaac Asimov, at least in his young age, appeared to have been fascinated, and influenced by, Fascist propaganda. While other fantasy writers of the 1930s also seemed to have been aware of Fascism and its...
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 53, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe Rescue of Jules Verne the Writer. Brian Taves, ed. The Marriage of a Marquis [Two Early Stories by Jules Verne]. Translated by Edward Baxter. The Palik Series #i. West Warwick, RI: BearManor Fiction, 2011. 127 pp....
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 43, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed* Similar to most other cultural expressions, the genre of SF and Fantasy seldom speaks in one voice. H.P. Lovecraft's ancestral voice of "cosmic fear" hardly sounds like the "projects" of an ever-youthful Hal Clement....