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A collection of critical essays on science fiction and fantasy literature and media containing:

• "Slaves of the Death Spiders: Colin Wilson and Existential Science Fiction"
• "Is There No Balm in Gilead? The Woeful Prophecies of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale"
• "A Few More Crocodile Tears?"
• "The Adventures of Lord Horror Across the Media Landscape"
• "Filling in the Middle: Robert Silverberg's The Queen of Springtime"
• "Rice's Relapse: Memnoch the Devil"
• "Field of Broken Dreams: Michael Bishop's Brittle Innings"
• "The Magic of the Movies"
• "H. G. Wells and the Discovery of the Future"
• "The Many Returns of Dracula"
• "Tarzan's Divided Self"
• "Sympathy for the Devil: Jacques Cazotte's The Devil in Love"
• "The Two Thousand Year Odyssey: George Viereck's Erotic Odyssey"
• "The Profession of Science Fiction" (an autobiography)
  

Published by The Borgo Press, December 2006
ISBN: 0-8095-1910-0