• Publication: Skiffy and Mimesis: More Best of Australian SF Review (Second Series)Publication Record # 356298
• Author: Damien Broderick
• Date: 2010-05-01
• ISBN: 978-1-4344-5787-5 [1-4344-5787-7]
• Publisher: Borgo Press / Wildside Press
• Pub. Series: I. O. Evans Studies in the Philosophy and Criticism of Literature
• Pub. Series #: 53
• Price:
  $15.99^?$: US dollar
• Pages: 284
• 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: NONFICTION

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 11 • Introduction (Skiffy and Mimesis) • essay by Damien Broderick
• 18 • The Planet on the Table • (1988) • essay by Jenny Blackford
• 22 • How Cordwainer Smith Came Back from Nothing-at-All! • (1989) • essay by Norman Talbot
• 33 • Always Coming Home • (1987) • essay by Yvonne Rousseau
• 37 • Mythago Wood • (1986) • essay by Jenny Blackford
• 41 • The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Vols. 1 and 2 • (1988) • essay by Michael J. Tolley
• 84 • Unwinding the Watchmen • (1991) • essay by Zoran Bekric
• 109 • Everything Not Forbidden Is Compulsory • (1988) • essay by Janeen Webb
• 118 • Occasional Thoughts on Frank Herbert's Dune Sequence • (1988) • essay by Douglas Barbour
• 128 • Three Utopias • (1991) • essay by Yvonne Rousseau
• 143 • Reactionary Utopias • (1986) • essay by Gregory Benford
• 154 • Response • (1988) • essay by John Foyster
• 160 • Guilt and the Unimaginative Unamerican Feminist • (1988) • essay by Yvonne Rousseau
• 171 • The Ambiguities of Utopia • (1988) • essay by Norman Talbot
• 192 • Afterword 2010 • essay by Gregory Benford
• 194 • The Role of the Science Fiction Reader: Cyberpunk and the Kids in Costume • (1989) • essay by John Foyster
• 202 • Sci-Fi and Psi-Fi: How Point of View Influences Reviewing • (1989) • essay by George Turner
• 209 • Response Spring 1989 • (1989) • essay by Lucius Shepard
• 215 • Desperately Seeking Lucius • (1989) • essay by John Foyster
• 219 • Skiffy and Mimesis; or, Critics in Costume • (1989) • essay by Russell Blackford
• 219 • Such Heat in the Kitchen! • (1989) • essay by George Turner
• 237 •  Letter from George Turner, Autumn 1990 • (1990) • essay by George Turner
• 239 •  Letter from Lucius Shepard, 1990 • (1990) • essay by Lucius Shepard
• 244 • A Comment from John Foyster • (1990) • essay by John Foyster
• 249 •  Letter from Peter Nicholls • (1990) • essay by Peter Nicholls
• 253 • An Editorial Comment from Russell Blackford • (1990) • essay by Russell Blackford
• 255 •  Letter from Douglas Barbour • (1990) • essay by Douglas Barbour
• 258 • New Directions in Science Fiction • (1988) • essay by George Turner