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Introduction by Marc Angenot Notes on Contributors by uncredited Lucian's True History as SF by S. C. Fredericks Iambulus' Islands of the Sun and Hellenistic Literary Utopias by David Winston The True, the False, and the Truly False: Lucian's Philosophical Science Fiction by Roy Arthur Swanson The Alternate Islands: A Chapter in the History of SF, with a Select Bibliography of the SF of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance by Darko Suvin The Reading and Writing of Utopia in Denis Diderot's Supplement au voyage de Bougainville by Christie V. McDonald German Theories of Science Fiction: Jean Paul, Kurd Lasswitz, and After by Wm B. Fischer Wells in Three Volumes? A sketch of British Publishing in the 19th Century by George Locke News from Nowhere, The Time Machine and the Break-up of Classical Realism by Patrick Parrinder The Time Machine and the End of Man by Alex Eisenstein Utopia and Epic: Ideological Confrontation in Jack London's The Iron Heel by Nadia Khouri Science Fiction and Allied Literature by David Ketterer Mythic Structure in Cordwainer Smith's "The Game of Rat and Dragon" by Gary K. Wolfe Invisible Men and Women: The Disappearance of Character in Science Fiction by Scott Russell Sanders [as by Scott Sanders ] The Lost Canticles of Walter M. Miller Jr by David M. Samuelson Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" Novels: Historical Materialism Distorted into Cyclical Psycho-History by Charles Elkins Ursula K. Le Guin and the Decline of Romantic Love by Robert Plank A Response to the Le Guin Issue by Ursula K. Le Guin From Technique to Critique: Knowledge and Human Interests in John Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar, The Jagged Orbit, and The Sheep Look Up by Michael Stern The Future History and Development of the English Language by Walter E. Meyers The Triumph of Prophecy: Science Fiction and Nuclear Power in the Post-Hiroshima Period by Albert I. Berger J.G. Ballard and the L