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Centre for Arts, Humanities and Sciences (CAHS), acting on behalf of the University of Debrecen CAHS Front Matter Source: Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (HJEAS), Vol. 6, No. 1, SCIENCE FICTION ISSUE (2000 Spring) Published by: Centre for Arts, Humanities and Sciences (CAHS), acting on behalf of the University of Debrecen CAHS Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41274070 . Accessed: 25/06/2014 02:56 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . Centre for Arts, Humanities and Sciences (CAHS), acting on behalf of the University of Debrecen CAHS is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (HJEAS). http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 188.72.127.131 on Wed, 25 Jun 2014 02:56:03 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions

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Page 1: SCIENCE FICTION ISSUE || Front Matter

Centre for Arts, Humanities and Sciences (CAHS), acting on behalf of the Universityof Debrecen CAHS

Front MatterSource: Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (HJEAS), Vol. 6, No. 1, SCIENCEFICTION ISSUE (2000 Spring)Published by: Centre for Arts, Humanities and Sciences (CAHS), acting on behalf of the University ofDebrecen CAHSStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41274070 .

Accessed: 25/06/2014 02:56

Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at .http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp

.JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range ofcontent in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new formsof scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected].

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Centre for Arts, Humanities and Sciences (CAHS), acting on behalf of the University of Debrecen CAHS iscollaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Hungarian Journal of English andAmerican Studies (HJEAS).

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CONTENTS

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Preface 3

Kevin Alexander Boon Episteme-ology of Science Fiction 1 1

Tamas Benyei Leakings: Reappropriating Science Fiction - the Case of Kurt Vonnegut 29

Amy Novak Virtual Poltergeists and Memory: The Question of Ahistoricism in William Gibson's Neuromancer (1984) 55

Usch Kiausch Orchids in a Cage: Political Myths and Social Reality in East German Science Fiction (1949-1989) 79

Eva Federmayer Octavia Butler's Maternal Cyborgs: The Black Female World of the Xenogenesis Trilogy 103

Nicholas Ruddick The Search for a Quantum Ethics: Michael Frayn's Copenhagen and Other Recent British Science Plays 119

Brian Attebery Cultural Negotiation in Science Fiction Literature and Film 1 39

Andy Sawyer Narrativium and Lies-to-Children: "Palatable Instruction" in The Science of Discworld. 155

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Review Essay

Donald E. Morse When the Hungarian Literary Theorist, Gyorgy Lukacs Met the American Science Fiction Writer, Wayne Mark Chapman Rev. of Aniko Sohar, The Cultural Transfer of Science Fiction and Fantasy in Hungary 1989-1995 1 79

Book Reviews

Easthope, Antony. The Unconscious by Boglarka Kovacs 1 83

Loomba, Ania. Colonialism/Postcolonialism by Agnes Gyorke 185

Stam, Robert. Film Theory: An Introduction by Marta Korosi 1 89

Gelder, Ken, ed. The Horror Reader by Ted Bailey 1 92

Hume, Kathryn. American Dream, American Nightmare: Fiction since 1960 by Adam Molnar 194

Blom, Mattias Bolkeus. Stories of Old: The Imagined West and the Crisis of Historical Symbology in the 1970s by Boglarka Kiss.. 1 98

Herzogenrath, Bernd. An Art of Desire: Reading Paul Auster by Balazs Szabo 201

Howells, Coral Ann. Alice Munro by Andrea Szabo 203

Notes on Contributors 207

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For Brian Aldiss

Science Fiction Writer, Story-Teller, Scholar

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