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James Gunn--one of the founding figures of science fiction scholarship and teaching--wrote in 1951 what is likely the first master's thesis on modern science fiction. Portions were in the short-lived pulp magazine Dynamic but it has otherwise remained unavailable.
Here in its first full publication, the thesis explores many of the classic Golden Age stories of the 1940s and the critical perspective that informed Gunn's essential genre history Alternate Worlds and his anthology series The Road to Science Fiction.
The editor's introduction and commentary show the historical significance of Gunn's work and its relevance to today's science fiction studies.
Contents
Table of Contents
Foreword deleteGary K. Wolfe
Preface: "When Modern Science Fiction Was Modern" deleteJames Gunn
Editor's Introduction deleteMichael R. Page
Modern Science Fiction: A Critical Analysis by James Gunn
Introduction
Part One—"Some of Us Are Looking at the Stars": The Philosophy of Science Fiction
Part Two: "Through Caverns Measureless to Man": The Plot Forms of Science Fiction
Section One: Plots of Circumstance
Chapter One: A Being in an Alien Environment
Chapter Two: Modern Man in the Modern World
Chapter Three: A Past Being in the Past
Chapter Four: A Future Being in a Future World
Chapter Five: Mutations
Conclusion to Plots of Circumstance
Section Two: Plots of Creation
Chapter One: The Creation of New Life or New Forms Thereof
Chapter Two: Experimentation in Other Fields
Conclusion
Appendix: Distribution Chart
Chapter Notes deleteMichael R. Page
Bibliography
Fiction Works Cited deleteJames Gunn
Critical Works Cited deleteJames Gunn
Works Cited in Editor's Introduction deleteMichael R. Page
Index
