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Volume 119, Number 3, May 2004
Special Topic: Science Fiction and Literary Studies: The Next Millennium
Coordinated by Marleen S. Barr and Carl Freedman
Introduction: Textism--An Emancipation Proclamation
Marleen S. Barr
Alien Sex Acts in Feminist Science Fiction: Heuristic Models for Thinking a Feminist Future of Desire
Alcena Madeline Davis Rogan
Science Fiction and the Future of Criticism
Eric S. Rabkin
Body Parts: Twentieth-Century Science Fiction Short Stories by Women
Jane Donawerth
The Slipstream of Mixed Reality: Unstable Ontologies and Semiotic Markers in The Thirteenth Floor, Dark City, and Mulholland Drive
N. Katherine Hayles and Nicholas Gessler
Joanna Russ and D. W. Griffith
Samuel R. Delany
Correspondents Abroad
Oh No, Not More Sci-Fi!
Brian W. Aldiss
The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake in Context
Margaret Atwood
The Persistence of Hope in Dystopian Science Fiction
Raffaella Baccolini
Science Fiction in South Africa
Deirdre C. Byrne
Art, Forward Slash, Science
Gwyneth Jones
Researching and Teaching Science Fiction in Greece
Domna Pastourmatzi
Circumstances and Stances
Darko Suvin
Polemical Afterword: Some Brief Reflections on Arnold Schwarzenegger and on Science Fiction in Contemporary American Culture
Carl Freedman
The essays by Eric S. Rabkin, Jane Donawerth, and Samuel R. Delany originated as presentations in the session about this special topic at the 2001 MLA convention.
Nobel Lecture 2003
He and His Man
J. M. Coetzee
Forum
George Bellis, Sabarimuthu Carlos, Anne Mallory, and Shu-mei Shih