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Foundation [#67, Summer 1996] ed. Edward James (The Science Fiction Foundation, £4.95, 128pp, digest, cover by Paul Young) Subtitled “The Review of Science Fiction”. 3 · Editorial · Edward James · ed 5 · The Profession of Science Fiction, 49: Travels of a Shintoist Cybermarxist · Darko Suvin, Liao Chao-Yang & Tami Hager · ar 28 · Travelling Among the Lands of the Fantastic: The Imaginary Worlds and Simulated Environments of Science Fiction Tourism · Kurt Lancaster · ar 47 · “The Universe Is Full of Warriors”: Masculinity, Hard Science and War in Some Novels by Larry Niven and His Accomplices · John Newsinger · ar [Larry Niven; Jerry Pournelle] 56 · Terry Pratchett and the Comedic Bildungsroman · Andrew M. Butler · ar [Terry Pratchett] 62 · “Towards an Archaeology of the Present”: Theodora Kroeber and Ursula K. Le Guin · Robert Maslen · ar [Ursula K. Le Guin] 75 · “It’s Alive!” Frankenstein: the Film, the Feminist Novel and Science Fiction · R. J. Frost · ar [Mary Shelley; Brian W. Aldiss] 94 · Reviews · [Various] · rc _94 · Fairyland, by Paul J. McAuley · Kev McVeigh · br _96 · Brightness Reef, by David Brin · Paul J. McAuley · br _99 · Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias, by Kim Stanley Robinson · John Moore · br _102 · Lethe, by Tricia Sullivan · Peter R. Wright · br _105 · Core, by Paul Preuss · Paul J. McAuley · br _107 · Invader, by C.J. Cherryh · Kurt Lancaster · br _109 · Distress, by Greg Egan · K. V. Bailey · br _110 · The Star Fraction, by Ken MacLeod · John Newsinger · br _112 · Crash Course, by Wilhelmina Baird · John Newsinger · br _112 · New Legends, by Greg Bear · Gwyneth Jones · br _120 · Memory Seed, by Stephen Palmer · Kev McVeigh · br _122 · The X-Files: Ruins, by Kevin J. Anderson · Neal Baker · br _124 · A Very British Genre: A Short History of British Fantasy and Science Fiction, by Paul Kincaid · Andrew M. Butler · br _128 · St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers, by Jay P. Pederson · David Seed · br

Foundation [#68, Autumn 1996] ed. Edward James (The Science Fiction Foundation, £4.95, 128pp, A5) Subtitled “The Review of Science Fiction”. 3 · Editorial · Edward James · ed 5 · Martian Chronicles: Narratives of Mars in Science and SF · Stephen Baxter · ar 16 · Mars in the Nineteenth Century: A Cornish Connection · R. A. S. Hennessey · ar [Rev. W. S. Lach-Szyrma] 24 · Selling Mars: Burroughs, Barsoom and Expedient Xenography · Peter Wright · ar [Edgar Rice Burroughs] 46 · The Profession of Science Fiction, 50: Journeying Into Space [Charles Chilton] · Edward James · iv 57 · Water, Entropy and the Million-Year Dream: Philip K. Dick’s Martian Time-Slip · Andrew M. Butler · ar [Philip K. Dick] 64 · Building Utopias on Mars, from Crusoe to Robinson · Edward James · ar [Kim Stanley Robinson] 75 · The Mars Trilogy: An Interview [Kim Stanley Robinson] · David Seed · iv 81 · Mars Is a District of Sheffield · K. V. Bailey · ar 87 · Letters · [The Readers] · lc _87 · [letter] · Phil Masters · lt _87 · [letter] · Phil Stephensen-Payne · lt _88 · [letter] · John Boston · lt _91 · [letter] · Steve Jeffery · lt _91 · [letter] · Alex Eisenstein · lt _103 · [letter] · Paul Watry · lt 105 · Great SF Short Fiction: 1. “Danny Goes to Mars” by Pamela Sargent · Janeen Webb · ar 107 · Reviews · [Various] · rc _107 · Blue Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson · Stephen Baxter · br _110 · Voyage, by Stephen Baxter · Brian Stableford · br _112 · Empire of the Ants, by Bernard Werber · Gwyneth Jones · br _117 · Serpent’s Blood, by Brian Stableford · K. V. Bailey · br _117 · Salamander’s Fire, by Brian Stableford · K. V. Bailey · br _120 · Writing Fantasy Fiction, by Sarah LeFanu · Robert Irwin · br _123 · Paragons: Twelve Master Science Fiction Writers Ply Their Craft, by Robin Wilson · Jennifer Swift · br _125 · Strange Days · Michael Laplace-Sinatra · mr [Kathryn Bigelow; James Cameron]

Foundation [#69, Spring 1997] ed. Edward James (The Science Fiction Foundation, £4.95, 128pp, A5) Subtitled “The Review of Science Fiction”. 3 · Editorial · Edward James · ed 5 · The Quintessence of Science Fiction, Forged in Brunner’s The Crucible of Time · Gary Westfahl · ar [John Brunner] 18 · Van Vogt and the Quest for the Universe [John Brunner; A.E. van Vogt] · Hal Drake · iv 26 · Novum Is As Novum Does · Darko Suvin · ar 44 · “A Place That You Can Put Your Arms Around”: Avram Davidson’s Jack Limekiller Stories · Henry Wessells · ar [Avram Davidson] 60 · A Postmodern (Re)Turn to Forbidden Planet · John Trushell · ar 67 · Glimpses of the Sacred: An Update on Religion in SF and F · Norman Beswick · ar 80 · Foundation Forum: The Logic of Time Travel · Stephen Baxter & Joan-Pau Rubiés · ar 85 · Letters · [The Readers] · lc _85 · [letter] · Michael Andre-Driussi · lt _88 · [letter] · Peter Wright · lt _92 · [letter] · Phil Masters · lt _93 · [letter] · Eric S. Rabkin · lt _94 · [letter] · John Boston · lt _95 · [letter] · Arthur C. Clarke · lt _95 · [letter] · Steve Sneyd · lt 96 · Reviews · [Various] · rc _96 · Flights from the Iron Moon, by Steve Sneyd · Andy Sawyer · br _97 · Star Wars: the Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels, by Bill Smith · Andy Sawyer · br _97 · Creating Babylon 5, by David Bassom · Andy Sawyer · br _97 · Cosmic Engineers: A Study of Hard Science Fiction, by Gary Westfahl · Andy Sawyer · br _98 · Replications: a Robotic History of the Science Fiction Film, by J.P. Telotte · Andy Sawyer · br _100 · Cyberpunk Handbook, by St. Jude, R.U. Sirius & Bart Nagel · Andy Sawyer · br _100 · Encounter with Tiber, by Buzz Aldrin & John Barnes · Stephen Baxter · br _104 · Headcrash, by Bruce Bethke · Andrew M. Butler · br _106 · Motherfuckers, by David Britton · Julian Petley · br _111 · Idoru, by William Gibson · Brian Stableford · br _114 · The Best New Science Fiction: 9th Annual Collection, by Gardner Dozois · Chris Gilmore · br _119 · James Blish: Author Mirabilis: A Working Bibliography, by Phil Stephensen-Payne · David Ketterer · br _120 · Golden Days, by Carolyn See · Paul Kincaid · br _122 · Hard Questions, by Ian Watson · John Newsinger · br _124 · Escape Velocity, by Mark Dery · Sue Thomas · br

Foundation [#70, Summer 1997] ed. Edward James (The Science Fiction Foundation, £4.95, 128pp, A5, cover by Peter Goodfellow) Subtitled “The Review of Science Fiction”. 3 · Editorial · Farah Mendlesohn & Edward James · ed 5 · The Profession of Science Fiction, 51: Answers to Some Questions · Diana Wynne Jones · ar 15 · No Business in Space? The Female Presence in Series Science Fiction for Children · Karen Sands · ar 25 · Fairytale, Myth and Otherness in Andre Norton’s Juvenile Science Fiction · Pauline Archell-Thompson · ar [Andre Norton] 32 · Trauma and Recovery in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Wonderful Alexander: Animal as Guide Through the Inner Space of the Unconscious · Sandra Lindow · ar [Ursula K. Le Guin] 39 · Mapping Post-nuclear Scenarios: Gudrun Pausewang’s and Robert Swindells’ Teenage Novels · Susan Tebbutt · ar [Gudrun Pausewang; Robert Swindells] 50 · Lois Lowry’s The Giver: Interrupted Bildungsroman or Ambiguous Dystopia? · Michael M. Levy · ar [Lois Lowry] 58 · Interactive Games and Other Fairy Tales: Or, Player(s) in Search of Authority · John Trushell · ar 70 · Ann Halam’s Tales of Inland · John Newsinger · ar [Gwyneth Jones] 80 · Great SF Short Fiction: 2. “The Voice of the Lobster” by Henry Kuttner · W. M. S. Russell · ar [Henry Kuttner] 82 · Great SF Short Fiction: 3. “The Battle of Dorking” by George Chesney · I. F. Clarke · ar [George Chesney] 84 · Letters · [The Readers] · lc _84 · [letter] · Darko Suvin · lt _85 · [letter] · R. D. Mullen · lt 86 · Reviews · [Various] · rc _86 · The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, by John Clute & John Grant · Andy Sawyer · br _89 · The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones · Andy Sawyer · br _90 · The Jules Verne Encyclopedia, by Brian Taves, Stephen Michaluk, Jr. & Jules Verne · Timothy Unwin · br _92 · Look at the Evidence: Essays and Reviews, by John Clute · K. V. Bailey · br _95 · Stephen R. Donaldson’s Chronicles, by W.A. Senior & Stephen R. Donaldson · Andy Sawyer · br _96 · Impossibility Fiction, by Derek Littlewood & Peter Stockwell · Andy Sawyer · br _97 · Enterprise Zones, by Taylor Harrison, Sarah Projansky, Kent A. Ono & Elyce Rae Helford · Edward James · br _99 · The Gaia Websters, by Kim Antieau · Brian Stableford · br _102 · Earthquake Weather, by Tim Powers · Brian Stableford · br _106 · Blade Runner 3: Replicant Night, by K.W. Jeter & Philip K. Dick · Peter Wright · br _109 · Automated Alice, by Jeff Noon · Paul J. McAuley · br _111 · Looking for the Mahdi, by N. Lee Wood · Colin Greenland · br _111 · Faraday’s Orphans, by N. Lee Wood · Colin Greenland · br _116 · Excession, by Iain M. Banks · Chris Gilmore · br _118 · The Ringworld Throne, by Larry Niven · John Newsinger · br _119 · Retrieved from the Future, by John Seymour · George Hay · br _121 · Slant, by Greg Bear · David Langford · br _122 · Blueheart, by Alison Sinclair · L. J. Hurst · br _125 · Foundation’s Fear, by Gregory Benford · K. V. Bailey · br

Foundation [#71, Autumn 1997] ed. Edward James (The Science Fiction Foundation, £4.95, 128pp, A5, cover by Edward James) Subtitled “The Review of Science Fiction”. 3 · Editorial · John Clute · ed 5 · Under Titan’s Green Sky: Titan in Science Fiction and Science · Stephen Baxter · ar 18 · Of Parents and Children and Dreams in Neil Gaiman’s Mr. Punch and The Sandman · Joe Sanders · ar [Neil Gaiman] 32 · Ideology and Dogma in the “Ferocious” SF Novels of Sheri S. Tepper · Norman Beswick · ar [Sheri S. Tepper] 45 · The Function of the Sublime in Contemporary Horror: From Edmund Burke to Michael Blumlein · Steffen H. Hantke · ar 63 · Miracle Stalker: Personal and Social Transformation in Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s Roadside Picnic · John Moore · ar [Arkady Strugatsky; Boris Strugatsky] 77 · Going “Native”: Le Guin, Misha, and the Politics of Speculative Literature · Elyce Rae Helford · ar [Ursula K. Le Guin; Misha] 88 · Brother Raspberry: Dialogues with the Alien in Recent Women’s SF · Sylvia Kelso · ar 101 · Reviews · [Various] · rc _101 · A Son of the Rock: A Space Libretto, by Jack Deighton · Peter Wright · br _104 · Four Ways to Forgiveness, by Ursula K. Le Guin · Jennifer Swift · br _107 · Forever Man, by George Michael Greider · Andrew M. Butler · br _108 · Matter’s End, by Gregory Benford · Neal Baker · br _110 · Frameshift, by Robert J. Sawyer · Douglas Barbour · br _111 · With All of Love: Selected Poems, by James Blish · Andy Sawyer · br _112 · Licence Denied: Rumblings from the Doctor Who Underground, by Paul Cornell · Andy Sawyer · br _113 · Modern British Utopias, 1700-1850, by Gregory Claeys · I. F. Clarke · br _118 · At the City Limits of Fate, by Michael Bishop · Paul Kincaid · br _120 · The Calcutta Chromosome, by Amitav Ghosh · Lyn Schumaker · br _122 · The Reality Dysfunction, by Peter F. Hamilton · Neal Baker · br _124 · The Faber Book of Science, by John Carey · Chris Gilmore · br _126 · The Trouble with Science, by Robin Dunbar · Chris Gilmore · br

Foundation [#72, Spring 1998] ed. Edward James (The Science Fiction Foundation, £5.95, 128pp, A5, cover by Roger Robinson) Subtitled “The Review of Science Fiction”. 3 · Editorial · Edward James · ed 5 · The Profession of Science Fiction, 52: A Literature of Unusual Ideas · Suzy McKee Charnas & Ildney Cavalcanti · ar 20 · The Violent Logic of Late Capitalism: Jack Womack’s SF · Douglas Barbour · ar [Jack Womack] 34 · Ophelia Triumphant: The Survival of Adolescent Girls in Recent Fiction by Butler and Womack · Michael M. Levy · ar [Octavia E. Butler; Jack Womack] 42 · Two SF Diaries at the Intersection of Subjunctive Hopes and Declarative Despair · Joan Gordon · ar 49 · The High Costs of Cyborg Survival: Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis Trilogy · Rebecca J. Holden · ar [Octavia E. Butler] 57 · Nausicaa and the Fantasy of Hayao Miyazaki · Andrew Osmond · ar 81 · Modelling SF: Fred Pfeil’s Embarrassment · Andrew M. Butler · ar [Fred Pfeil] 88 · A Magazine of the Fantastic from 1682 · Ahrvid Engholm · ar 93 · Great SF Short Fiction: 4. “Kyrie” by Poul Anderson · Cornel Robu · ar [Poul Anderson] 99 · Letters · [The Readers] · lc _99 · [letter] · Steve Jeffery · lt _99 · [letter] · Antony Croghan · lt 101 · Reviews · [Various] · rc _101 · Diaspora, by Greg Egan · Gwyneth Jones · br _103 · Phoenix Café, by Gwyneth Jones · Douglas Barbour · br _103 · Seven Tales and a Fable, by Gwyneth Jones · Douglas Barbour · br _106 · Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman, by Walter M. Miller, Jr. · Paul J. McAuley · br _109 · Mainline, by Deborah Christian · Brian Baker · br _112 · Lightpaths, by Howard V. Hendrix · Gary Westfahl · br _117 · Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories, by James Patrick Kelly · L. J. Hurst · br _119 · Political Science Fiction, by Donald M. Hassler & Clyde Wilcox · David Seed · br _121 · Cultural Babbage, by Francis Spufford & Jenny Uglow · Chris Gilmore · br _124 · Recent titles published by Borgo Press · Andy Sawyer · br

Foundation [#73, Summer 1998] ed. Edward James (The Science Fiction Foundation, £5.95, 128pp, A5, cover by Jim Burns) Subtitled “The Review of Science Fiction”. 3 · Editorial · Edward James · ed 5 · The Profession of Science Fiction, 53: Defying Gravity · Colin Greenland · ar 17 · F. Marion Crawford and The Witch of Prague: A Prague Novel? · Cyril Simsa · ar [F. Marion Crawford] 47 · Myth, War, Contact: Ian McDonald’s Irish Trilogy · John Newsinger · ar [Ian McDonald] 59 · Technology as Eros’s Dart: Cyborgs as Perfect (Male?) Lovers · Anca Vlasopolos · ar 67 · Connie Willis’s Civil War: Re-dreaming America as Science Fiction · Sylvia Kelso · ar [Connie Willis] 77 · “If It Can Happen, It Will Happen”: A Conversation with Nancy Kress · Earl G. Ingersoll · iv 83 · Bicentenary of a Famous Science Fiction Writer · W. M. S. Russell · ar [Giacomo Casanova] 94 · Letters · [The Readers] · lc _94 · [letter] · Jonathan Clements · lt _96 · [letter] · Andrew Osmond · lt 97 · Reviews · [Various] · rc _97 · The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell · Bryan Milner · br _99 · A Scientific Romance, by Ronald Wright · Stephen Baxter · br _102 · Black Wine, by Candas Jane Dorsey · Douglas Barbour · br _104 · Signs of Life, by M. John Harrison · Steffen Hantke · br _106 · Glimmering, by Elizabeth Hand · David Langford · br _107 · The Science Fiction Century, by David G. Hartwell · David Mathew · br _111 · Jack Faust, by Michael Swanwick · K. V. Bailey · br _113 · Someone to Watch Over Me, by Tricia Sullivan · K. V. Bailey · br _115 · Deutsche Science Fiction 1870-1914, by Roland Innerhofer · Hans-Ulrich Boettcher · br _117 · Airoumeni Pragmatilotika (Hovering Reality), by Alexia Athanasiou · Domna Pastourmatzi · br _119 · The Troika, by Stepan Chapman · Colin Greenland · br _122 · The Web series · Keith Brooke & Nick Gifford · br

Foundation [#74, Autumn 1998] ed. Edward James (The Science Fiction Foundation, £5.95, 128pp, A5, cover by Robert McAuley) Subtitled “The Review of Science Fiction”. 3 · The Wyndham Archive and the “Return of the Triffids” · Andy Sawyer · ed 7 · Editorial Note · Edward James · ms 8 · Plan for Chaos/Fury of Creation: An Unpublished Science-Fiction Thriller by John Beynon/John Lucas (aka John Wyndham) · David Ketterer · ar [John Wyndham] 26 · Moon Believers: Robert A. Heinlein and America’s Moon · Stephen Baxter · ar [Robert A. Heinlein] 38 · “Shall We All Commit Suicide?” Winston S. Churchill and the Scientific Imagination · Paul K. Alkon · ar [Winston Churchill] 48 · The Longing for Prelapsarian Fantasies in Role-Playing Games · Kurt Lancaster · ar 54 · The Domestication of Technology in Indian Science Fiction Short Stories · Uppinder Mehan · ar 67 · “I’m Wondering What Sort of Misunderstanding Is Happening Right Now”: Poststructuralism, French Feminism, and Carol Emshwiller’s “The Start of the End of It All” · Elyce Rae Helford · ar [Carol Emshwiller] 80 · Popular Science, Rewriting and Utopia: Or, The Revolution Will Not Take Place in a Fanzine · Billie Aul & Farah Mendlesohn · ar 96 · Letters · [The Readers] · lc _96 · An Open Letter to Sylvia Kelso · Peter Nicholls · lt _97 · [letter] · Sylvia Kelso · lt 101 · Reviews · [Various] · rc _101 · Cosm, by Gregory Benford · Jennifer Swift · br _105 · The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of, by Thomas M. Disch · David Seed · br _107 · Memory, by Lois McMaster Bujold · Jonathan Laidlow · br _107 · Komarr, by Lois McMaster Bujold · Jonathan Laidlow · br _110 · The Cassini Division, by Ken MacLeod · Farah Mendlesohn · br _112 · The Great War with Germany, 1890-1914: Fictions and Fantasies of War to Come, by I.F. Clarke · Chris Gilmore · br _114 · Silicon Karma, by Thomas A. Easton · Damien Broderick · br _116 · ‘The Angle Between Two Walls’: The Fiction of J.G. Ballard, by Roger Luckhurst & J.G. Ballard · David Mathew · br _119 · Eternity Road, by Jack McDevitt · Andrew M. Butler · br _121 · Kirinya, by Ian McDonald · Jonathan Laidlow · br _123 · Rocket Boys, by Homer H. Hickam · Edward James · br