Table of Contents

Introduction by Gary Westfahl Overviews: Science Fiction and the Academy Literary Gatekeepers and the Fabril Tradition by Tom Shippey Seven Types of Chopped Liver: My Adventures in the Genre Wars by Frank McConnell The Things Women Don't Say by Susan Kray Why the Academy Is Afraid of Dragons: The Suppression of the Marvelous in Theories of the Fantastic by Jonathan Langford Mechanisms of Canonization The Arthur C. Clarke Award and Its Reception in Britain by Edward James Popes or Tropes: Defining the Grails of Science Fiction by Joseph D. Miller Science Fiction Eye and the Rebellion Against Recursion by Stephen P. Brown Authority, Canons, and Scholarship: The Role of Academic Journals by Arthur B. Evans Case Studies in Marginalization Multiculturalism and the Cultural Dynamics of Classic American Science Fiction by George Slusser Science Fiction in the Academies of History and Literature; Or, History and the Use of Science Fiction by Farah Mendlesohn (E)raced Visions: Women of Color and Science Fiction in the United States by Elyce Rae Helford Hard Magic, Soft Science: The Marginalization of Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason's Assemblers of Infinity and Bruce Boston's Stained Glass Rain by Howard V. Hendrix White Men Can't…:(De)centering Authority and Jacking into Phallic Economies in William Gibson's Count Zero by Joseph Childers, Townsend Carr, and Regna Meenk

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Expert contributors discuss the marginalization of science fiction by literary critics and the tendency to exclude science fiction from the canon.

About the Author

Gary Westfahl is adjunct professor at the University of La Verne, CA. His previous books include No Cure for the Future (2002), Unearthly Visions (2002), Worlds Enough and Time (2002), Science Fiction, Canonization, Marginalization, and the Academy (2002), Science Fiction, Children's Literature, and Popular Culture (2000), Space and Beyond (2000), and Cosmic Engineers (1996), all available from Greenwood Press. George Slusser is professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Riverside. He has written several books about science fiction authors and coedited numerous scholarly studies.

Reviews

"This collection will be useful for anyone teaching or writing about science fiction. It could also offer food for thought to those who dismiss science fiction, but of course they are the people least likely to read it....[T]hese essays, taken together, form a genuine dialogue, with all the irriation involved in actually having to listen to the "other side." No one will like more than half of them. But as collections go, that is not a bad average. Theeditors are to be commended for creating the space for a genuine exchange, something all too rare."-SFRA Review

?This collection will be useful for anyone teaching or writing about science fiction. It could also offer food for thought to those who dismiss science fiction, but of course they are the people least likely to read it....[T]hese essays, taken together, form a genuine dialogue, with all the irriation involved in actually having to listen to the "other side." No one will like more than half of them. But as collections go, that is not a bad average. Theeditors are to be commended for creating the space for a genuine exchange, something all too rare.?-SFRA Review