Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics

CONTENTS: Volume I - It Ain't Necessarily So: An Introduction - Preliminary Theses on Allegory (1977) - The Moon as a Mirror to Man: Or, Lessons of Selenography (1969) - Significant Themes in Soviet Criticism of Science Fiction to 1965 (1969) - The SF Novel in 1969 (1970) - Against Common Sense: Levels of SF Criticism (1972) - A, B, and C: The Significant Context of SF: A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation (1973) - Four Worries on Science Fiction Contexts (1970-1975) - James Blish, 1921-1975 (1975) - On Philip K. Dick - On Ursula K. Le Guin - On the Strugatsky Brothers - For a Social Theory of Science Fiction: Programmatic Reflections (1977-1988) - (with Marc Angenot) Editorial of Science-Fiction Studies (1979) - (with Marc Angenot) Not Only But Also: Reflections on Cognitions and Ideology in SF and SF Criticism (1979) - Three World Paradigms for SF: Asimov, Yefremov, and Lem (1979-1993) - Pilgrim Award Speech for the SF Research Association (1979) - A Brief Valedictory on Stepping Down (1981) - Volume II - Playful Cognizing, or Technical Errors in Harmonyville: The SF of Johanna and Günter Braun (1981 and 1987) - The Science-Fiction Novel as Epic Narration: For a Fusion of «Formal» and «Sociological» Analysis (1980-1985) - (with Eike Barmeyer and Dieter Hasselblatt) A Discussion of Stanislaw Lem's SF Radio-Drama Do You Exist Mr Johns? (1982) - Narrative Logic, Ideological Domination, and the Range of Science Fiction: A Hypothesis with a Test Case (1982) - Science Fiction: Metaphor, Parable, and Chronotope (With the Bad Conscience of Reaganism) (1984) - On «Post-Modernist» Political Impotence and the Horizons of Fiction and SF: A Response to Professor Fekete's «Five Theses» (1988) - Science Fiction: A Basic Sketch (1987-1994) - Utopia in the Asian Eighties: Six Songlets (1983-1988) - Visions Off Yamada (1988) - Thinking Worlds of a Liminal Shintoist Cybermarxist: Five Interviews (1987-1995) - Counter-Projects: William Morris and the SF of the 1880s (1988) - We've Met the Aliens and They Are Us: Weinbaum's Parables of Class (1993-2010) - Notes and Memories on Science Fiction - With Sober, Estranged Eyes (1998) - SF Parables of Mutation and Cloning as/and Cognition (2002).