Description: Introduction: "Flashes of Light" by David Ketterer THE WAR OF THE WORLDS "God's Ministers"? Reinterpreting the Martian Invasion in The War of the Worlds, by Patrick Parrinder Artful Irony in The War of the Worlds, by Richard Law The War of the Worlds and the Disease of Imperialism, by Alexander C. Irvine The War of the Worlds, Wells, and the Fallacy of Empire, by John C. Hawley H. G. WELLS AND SCIENCE FICTION The Legendary: H. G. Wells and A Modern Utopia , by Claire Hirshfield "These Are Not the Aliens You're Looking For": Reflections on Race, Writing, and Theory in Contemporary Science Fiction, by Sylvia Kelso The Queer as Traitor, the Traitor as Queer: Denaturalizing Concepts of Nationhood, Species, and Sexuality, by Wendy Pearson The Humanism of C. M. Kornbluth's "The Marching Morons", by Andy Duncan The Forever War (1972-75, 1975/76, 1997) and Forever Peace (1997): Joe Haldeman's Variations on a Theme, by Richard D. Erlich How to Make Utopia (Marginally) Credible, by Brian W. Aldiss THE ART OF PETER STRAUB The Fantasy of Everyday Life, by Peter Straub An Interview with Peter Straub, by Bernadette Bosky Dispatches from the Invisible World: Trauma and Survival in Straub's "Blue Rose" Stories, by Patricia Moir FANTASY, REALITY, POETRY-MORE FLASHES OF INSIGHT Drawing Lines in the Sand: The Fantastic Considered as an Instance of Liminality, by Judith Kerman Anne Radcliffe's "Real" Ghost: The Fantastic Supernatural in Gaston de Blondeville, by Robert F. Geary "Power of Combination": Dracula and Secret Societies, by Katie Harse The Phantom Structure of Anatole France's "La Messe des Ombres": A Tale from Gascony Revisited, from Blad to France, by Juliette Gilman "Fantastic Neomedievalism": The Image of the Middle Ages in Popular Fantasy, by Kim Selling From Death to Rebirth: A Short History of Dragons and Their Presence in Modern Fantasy, by Judith A. John Autogeddon Meets Archetype: Ballard's Novel Crash-The Collision Between the Dream Image and the Totem Object in the Death of Princess Diana, by Joan Bridgman The Spacecraft of Pablo Neruda and W. H. Auden , by Leonard A. Cheever Index About the Contributors

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