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• vii • Toward a Theory of Interaction • essay by Eric S. Rabkin and George E. Slusser
• 3 • Boiling Roses: Thoughts on Science Fantasy • essay by Robert Scholes
• 19 • Parallel Universes: Fantasy or Science Fiction? • essay by Joseph D. Miller
• 26 • High Tech and High Sorcery: Some Discriminations Between Science Fiction and Fantasy • essay by Michael W. McClintock
• 36 • Science Fiction and the Semiotics of Realism • essay by J. Timothy Bagwell
• 48 • Filling the Niche: Fazntasy and Science Fiction in Contemporary Horror • essay by Michael R. Collings
• 55 • Fantasy and Science Fiction: A Writer's View • (1985) • essay by Roger Zelazny
• 63 • The Gestation of Genres: Literature, Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy... • essay by Samuel R. Delany
• 74 • Konstantin Tsiolkovsky: Science Fiction and Philosophy in the History of Soviet Space Exploration • essay by Michael Holquist
• 87 • Victorian Urban Gothic: The First Modern Fantastic Literature • essay by Kathleen Spencer
• 97 • Jewels of Wonder, Instruments of Delight: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Science Fantasy as Vision-Inducing Works • essay by Michael Clifton
• 107 • The Tooth That Gnaws: Reflections on Time Travel • essay by David A. Leiby
• 119 • Frames in Search of a Genre • essay by Frank McConnell
• 133 • The And in Fantasy and Science Fiction • essay by George E. Slusser
• 171 • Homecomings: Fantasy and Horror • essay by Celeste Pernicone
• 181 • Science Fantasy and Myth • essay by Brian Attebery
• 190 • Gravity's Rainbow: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Mythology • essay by Kathryn Hume
• 201 • Science Fiction: Going Around in Generic Circles • essay by David Clayton