Contents (view Concise Listing)

• Neo-Gnostic Elements in Louise Lawrence's Moonwind • essay by Judith N. Mitchell
• Selected Bibliography • essay by Michael M. Levy [as by Michael Levy]
• Raymond Briggs's When the Wind Blows: Toward an Ecology of the Mind for Young Readers • essay by Millicent Lenz
• Captain Kirk and Dr. Who: Meliorist and Spenglerian World Views in Fiction for Young Adults • essay by Joseph O. Milner
• "True Myth": Female Archetypes in Monica Hughes's the Keeper of the Isis Light • essay by Raymond E. Jones
• Myth in Action: The Trials and Transformation of Menolly • essay by Patricia Harkins
• The Debate Continues: Technology Or Nature - a Study of Monica Hughes's Science Fiction Novels • essay by J. R. Wytenbroek
• The British Science Fiction of Louise Lawrence • essay by Marilyn Fain Apseloff
• Growing Home: The Triumph of Youth in the Novels of H.M. Hoover • essay by Thom Dunn and Karl Hiller
• Danger Quotient, Fiskadoro, Riddley Walker, and the Failure of the Campbellian Monomyth • essay by Millicent Lenz
• Masters, Slaves, and Rebels: Dystopia As Defined and Defied • essay by K. V. Bailey and John Christopher
• The Things of a Child: Coming Full-Circle with Alan E. Nourse's Raiders from the Rings • essay by Howard V. Hendrix
• The Terrible Journey Past Dragons in the Water to House Like Lotus: Faces of Love in the Fiction of Madeleine L'Engle • essay by M. Sarah Smedman
• Asimov: Man Thinking • essay by Elizabeth Anne Hull
• The Formulaic and Rites of Passage in Andre Norton's Magic Series • essay by Roger C. Schlobin
• Heinlein's Juveniles: Growing Up in Outer Space • essay by C. W. Sullivan, III
• The Tom Swift Books • essay by Francis J. Molson