• Publication: Extrapolation, Summer 1987Publication Record # 293960 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
• Editor: Thomas D. Clareson
• Date: 1987-00-00
• Publisher: Kent State University Press
• Price:
  $5.00^?$: US dollar
• Pages: 96+
• Format:
  tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
• Type: MAGAZINE
• Notes: Vol. 28, No. 2 Pagination continues from the first number of this volume, with pages numbered 101 through 186. Covers are not included in the page count.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 103 • The Launching Pad (Extrapolation, Summer 1987) • essay by Thomas D. Clareson
• 105 • Ursula K. Le Guin and Athur C. Clarke on Immanence, Transcendence, and Massacres • essay by Richard D. Erlich
• 130 • From "Nightfall" to Dawn: Asimov as Acrophobe • essay by Alan C. Elms
• 141 • Signs of Crime: Aspects of Structure in Science Fiction Detection Stories • essay by David Mead [as by David G. Mead]
• 148 • "Nature's Priest": Establishing Literary Criteria for Arthur C. Clarke's "The Star" • essay by Patricia Ferrara
• 159 • Death and Rebirth in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan • essay by Lane Roth
• 167 • Reviews of Books (Extrapolation, Summer 1987) • essay by various
• 167 •   Review: Erotic Universe: Sexuality and Fantastic Literature by Donald Palumbo • review by Thomas P. Dunn
• 167 •   Review: Eros in the Mind's Eye: Sexuality and the Fantastic in Art and Film by Donald Palumbo • review by Thomas P. Dunn
• 170 •   Review: The Unexpected Universe of Doris Lessing: A Study in Narrative Technique by Katherine Fishburn • review by Kathe Davis
• 172 •   Review: The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories by Leon L. Gammell • review by Phyllis Eisenstein
• 174 •   Review: The Films of Stephen King by Michael R. Collings • review by Brooks Landon
• 176 •   Review: The Occult in the Western World: An Annotated Bibliography by Cosette N. Kies • review by Samuel H. Vasbinder
• 180 • Reaction Time (Extrapolation, Summer 1987) • essay by various
• 180 • Don't Play It Again, Sam: A Partial Response to Sam Moskowitz's "Five Steps to Science Fiction Sanity" • essay by Charles L. Elkins [as by Charles Elkins]
• 184 • (Response to Charles Elkins) • essay by Sam Moskowitz
• 187 • Science Fiction and High Art • essay by Donald M. Hassler