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Science
Fiction Studies
SFS was founded in 1973 and has
been called the world's most respected scholarly journal for the study
of science fiction (sf). It is refereed, very selective, and publishes
articles, interviews, and book reviews three times per year (March,
July, November). The SFS
website features abstracts of every article, full texts of every
review, and selected major essays that have appeared in the journal.
It also includes important documents in the history of science fiction,
a host of links to useful websites related to sf, and a bibliography
of sf criticism. Beginning in the summer of 2002, all sold-out back
issues are also posted (full-text) on the SFS website. For a
photo of the editorial staff of SFS (circa 1998), click here.
Wesleyan
Anthology of Science Fiction
In July 2010, the co-editors of SFS
published a classroom textbook of science fiction called The
Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction.
It contains 52 stories from the 19th century to today, with a brief
headnote about the author preceding each story. The book features an
introduction that analyzes the genre and its reading protocols and also
includes an extensive bibliography of critical works about science fiction
at the end. Accompanying the anthology is an online "Teacher's
Guide" for using the book in an academic setting; it is located
at: http://www.wesleyan.edu/wespress/sfanthologyguide/
"Early
Classics of Science Fiction"
Since
2000, I have served as the general editor for this new book series from
Wesleyan University Press.
This series contains three lines: critical editions of classic English-language
sf, new translations of non-English sf, and monographs and other scholarly
studies that focus on early sf (pre-1940). According to Wesleyan, the
primary goal of this "Early Classics of Science Fiction" series
is: "to provide a venue for the publication and scholarly study
of neglected early works of science fiction and, in so doing, to expand
and enrich the traditional definitions of the genre." Here is a
list of the books published so far in this series. Click on the title
to see an enlarged photo of the book cover as well as a selection of
book reviews.
fall
2001:
Jules Verne, Invasion of the Sea.
(1905) Trans. Edward Baxter. Ed. Arthur B. Evans.
Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island.
(1875) Trans. Stanley Kravitz. Eds. William Butcher and Arthur B. Evans.
spring
2002:
Camille Flammarion, Lumen.
(1872) Trans. and ed. Brian Stableford.
Justine Larbalestier, The Battle
of the Sexes in Science Fiction.
fall
2002:
Jean-Baptiste
Cousin de Grainville, The Last Man.
(1805) Trans. and ed. I.F and M. Clarke.
Jules Verne, The Mighty Orinoco.
(1898) Trans. Stanford Luce. Eds. Walter James Miller and Arthur B.
Evans.
spring 2003:
Kenneth Mackay, The Yellow Wave.
(1895) Eds. Andrew Enstice and Janeen Webb.
Andrea Bell and Yolanda Molina-Gavilán, eds., Cosmos
Latinos.
fall 2003:
Ignatius Donnelly, Caesar's
Column. (1889). Ed. Nicholas Ruddick..
S. Fowler Wright, Deluge.
(1928). Ed. Brian Stableford.
spring 2004:
Albert Robida, The Twentieth
Century. (1882). Trans. Philippe Willems. Ed. Arthur B. Evans.
A. Merritt, The Moon Pool.
(1918). Ed. Michael Levy.
Olaf Stapledon. Star Maker.
(1937). Ed. Patrick A. McCarthy.
fall 2004:
W. Warren Wagar. H. G. Wells: Traversing
Time.
Emile Souvestre. The World As It
Shall Be. (1846). Trans. Margaret Clarke. Ed.
I.F. Clarke.
Peter Fitting, ed. Subterranean
Worlds: A Critical Anthology.
spring 2005
Edward Bulwer-Lytton. The Coming
Race. (1871). Ed. David Seed.
fall 2005
Jules Verne. The Begum's Millions.
(1879). Trans. Stanford L. Luce. Eds. Peter Schulman and Arthur B. Evans.
spring 2006
Honoré de Balzac. The
Centenarian. (1822). Trans. and ed. Danièle Chatelain
and George Slusser.
fall
2006
H.G. Wells. Star Begotten.
(1937). Ed. John Huntington.
spring
2007
Jules Verne. The Kip Brothers.
(1902). Trans. Stanford L. Luce. Eds. Jean-Michel Margot and Arthur
B. Evans.
spring
2008
John Rieder. Colonialism and
the Emergence of Science Fiction.
fall
2008
Franz Rottensteiner, ed. The Black
Mirror and other Stories: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Germany
and Austria
spring
2009
Nicholas Ruddick. The Fire
in the Stone: Prehistoric Fiction from Charles Darwin to Jean M. Auel
fall
2010
Robert Crossley. Imagining
Mars: A Literary History
spring 2011
Rachel Haywood Ferreira. The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction
spring 2012
J.-H. Rosny aîné. Three Science Fiction Novellas: From Prehistory to the End of Mankind. Trans. and ed. Danièle Chatelain and George Slusser.
fall 2012
Enrique Gaspar. The Time Ship: A Chrononautical Journey. Trans. and ed. Yolanda Molina-Gavilán and Andrea Bell.
winter 2012
Anindita Banerjee. We Modern People: Science Fiction and the Making of Russian Modernity
Verniana
In
2008, a new and entirely online scholarly journal called Verniana
was founded by the late Prof. Zvi Har'El and a handful of international
Verne scholars (including myself) who serve as its Editorial Board.
Verniana publishes original scholarly essays and reviews pertaining
to the life and works of the French author Jules Verne (1828-1905).
Texts published in Verniana may be written in any modern language
(abstracts of each are provided in English and French) and are fully
peer-reviewed. A free and totally open-access journal, Verniana may
be accessed by any reader with an Internet connection. Any text published
in Verniana may be copied, distributed, and transmitted free
of charge provided that it is not used for commercial purposes, that
it is not altered in any way, and that its original appearance in Verniana
is acknowledged. A link to the home page of Verniana is here.
Other
Books, Articles, Lectures, etc.
My
scholarly interest in science fiction developed, oddly enough, out of
my studies in French surrealism. My first publication was a 1977 book
on Jean Cocteau called Jean Cocteau and his Films of Orphic Identity.
While working on my Ph.D. at Columbia University in the early 1980s,
I became fascinated with the "surreal" genre of science fiction,
eventually completing a doctoral dissertation on Jules Verne in 1985.
Its subsequent publication as Jules Verne Rediscovered (winning
the Eaton Award in 1990) marked the beginning of my ongoiing research
and editorial work in the field of science fiction. Some of my other
publications, lectures, interviews, etc. are listed below, a few of
which are available online (click on the title).
 
books,
as author:
Jean Cocteau and his Films of Orphic Identity (Art Alliance Press,
1977).
Jules
Verne Rediscovered: Didacticism and the Scientific Novel (Greenwood
Press, 1988).
book,
as co-editor:
On Philip K. Dick:
40 Articles from Science-Fiction Studies (SF-TH, 1992).
book,
as contributing editor:
En Route! Review Grammar, ed. Katia Brillé Lutz (Harcourt
Brace, 1985).
articles
in books and encyclopedias :
"Le Franglais vernien." Les Modernités de Jules
Verne, ed. Jean Bessière (Presses Universitaires de France,
1988): 87-105.
"French Science Fiction." Handbook of French Popular Culture,
ed. Pierre Horn (Greenwood Press, 1990): 229-265.
"Jules Verne." Dictionary of Literary Biography: Nineteenth-Century
French Fiction Writers, 1860-1900, ed. Catharine Savage Brosman,
Vol. 123 (Gale, 1992): 275-97.
"Jules Verne." TCLC 52: Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism
(Gale, 1994): 336, 351-361.
"Vehicular
Utopias of Jules Verne." Transformations of Utopia: Changing
Views of the Perfect Society, eds. George Slusser et al. (NY: AMS
Press, 1999): 99-108.
"Jules Verne
and the French Literary Canon." Jules Verne: Narratives
of Modernity, (Liverpool University Press, 2000): 11-39.
"Authorities, Canons, and Scholarship: The Role of Academic Journals."
Science Fiction, Canonization, Marginalization, and the Academy,
ed. Gary Westfahl and George Slusser (Greenwood Press, 2002): 95-100.
"Robida, Albert." Encyclopedia Britannica. 2006.
Encyclopedia Britannica Online. <http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9399929>.
"Verne, Jules." Encyclopedia Britannica. 2006. Encyclopedia
Britannica Online. <http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9075124>.
"Nineteenth-Century SF." The Routledge Companion to Science
Fiction, ed. Mark Bould et al. (Routledge, 2009): 13-22.
"Jules Verne." Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction,
ed. Mark Bould et al. (Routledge, 2010): 235-239.
articles
in refereed scholarly journals
:
"L'Etrange cas de la planète disparue––Hector
Servadac.'' Bulletin de la Société Jules Verne
75 1985): 233.
"Science
Fiction vs. Scientific Fiction in France: From Jules Verne to Rosny
Aîné.'' Science-Fiction Studies Vol. 15, #44
(1988): 1-11.
"The Extraordinary
Libraries of Jules Verne.'' L'Esprit créateur Vol.
28, # 1 (1988): 75- 86.
"Catachresis in Early Surrealist Poetry." Romantic Review
Vol. 79, #4 (1988): 621-632.
"Science Fiction in France: A Brief History and Selective Bibliography.''
Science-Fiction Studies Vol. 16, #49 (1989): 254-276, 338-368.
"Functions
of Science in French Fiction.'' Studies in the Literary Imagination
Vol. 22, #1 (1989): 79-100.
"Optograms
and Fiction: Photo in a Dead Man's Eye.'' Science-Fiction Studies
Vol. 20, #61 (1993): 341-61.
"The
Fantastic SF of Maurice Renard.'' Science-Fiction Studies
Vol. 21, #64 (1994): 380- 96.
"The 'New'
Jules Verne.'' Science-Fiction Studies Vol. 22, #65 (1995):
35-46.
"Jules Verne et la persistence rétinienne.'' Cahiers
du Musée Jules Verne #13 (1996): 11- 17.
"Literary
Intertexts in Jules Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires.'' Science-Fiction
Studies Vol. 23, #69 (1996): 171-87.
"North
American College Courses in Science Fiction, Utopian Literature, and
Fantasy. '' Science-Fiction Studies Vol. 23, #70 (1996):
437-524.
"The Surrealistic Science Fiction of Serge Brussolo." Science-Fiction
Studies Vol. 24, #73 (1997): 430-40, (with Roger Bozzetto).
"The Illustrators
of Jules Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires." Science-Fiction
Studies Vol. 25, #75 (1998): 241-70.
"In Memoriam: Richard Dale Mullen." Science Fiction Studies
Vol. 25, #76 (1998): 401-13.
"The
Origins of Science Fiction Criticism: from Kepler to Wells."
Science Fiction Studies Vol. 26, #78 (1999): 163-86. Rpt. in French in ReS Futurae: Revue d'études sur la science-fiction. Vol. 1 (2012).
"Hetzel
and Verne: Collaboration and Conflict." Science Fiction
Studies Vol. 28, #83 (2001): 97-106.
"Gustave Le Rouge, Pioneer of French Science Fiction." Science
Fiction Studies Vol. 29, #86 (2002): 1-14.
"The Most Translated Verne Novel." Nautilus 2 (Jan.
2002): 6-9. Article co-written with William Butcher.
"Verne en Amérique: genèse d'une légende."
Revue Jules Verne #15 (juin 2003): 47-60.
"Jules
Verne's English Translations." Science Fiction Studies
Vol. 32, #95 (2005): 80-104.
"A
Bibliography of Jules Verne's English Translations." Science
Fiction Studies Vol. 32, #95 (2005): 105-141.
"Jules Verne: Exploring the Limits." Australian Journal
of French Studies Vol. 42, no. 3 (September-December 2005): 265-75.
"Jules
Verne's America." Extrapolation vol. 48 (Spring 2007):
35-43.
"Jules
Verne in English: A Bibliography of Modern Editions and Scholarly Studies."
Verniana Vol. 1 (2008): 9-22.
"The Verne School in France: Paul d'Ivoi's Voyages Excentriques."
Science Fiction Studies Vol. 36, #108 (2009): 217-234. Rpt. in French as "Les Voyages excentriques de Paul d'Ivoi"
in Galaxies Science-Fiction no. 8/50 (printemps 2010): 141-159.
"Protesting Too Much: The Jules vs. Michel Verne Controversy." Science Fiction Studies Vol. 36, #108 (July 2009): 321-26.
"Éditorial." (with Irène Langlet) ReS Futurae: Revue d'études sur la science-fiction. Vol. 1 (2012).
"Editorial: The Verne Translation Renaissance Continues." Verniana (2012-13): i-iv.
"Fishing for Lion with Jules Verne and Joseph Méry." Verniana (2012-13): 35-38.
Articles
in popular magazines:
"Jules Verne: Misunderstood Visionary." Scientific American
(April 1997): 92-97.
"Jules Verne: visionnaire incompris." Pour la Science
#2236 (juin 1997): 94-101.
Translations:
Roger Bozzetto. "Intercultural Interplay: SF in France and the
US.'' Science-Fiction Studies Vol. 17, #50 (1990): 1-24.
Roger Bozzetto. "Kepler's Somnium.'' Science-Fiction Studies
Vol. 17, #52 (1990): 370-382.
Jean
Baudrillard. "Simulacra and Science Fiction." Science-Fiction
Studies Vol. 18, #55 (1991): 309-313.
Jean
Baudrillard. "Ballard's Crash.'' Science-Fiction Studies
Vol. 18, #55 (1991): 313-320.
Hélène
Colas-Charpentier, "Four Québécois Dystopias.''
1963-1972,'' Science-Fiction Studies Vol. 20, #61 (1993): 383-393.
Maurice Renard.
"On the Scientific-Marvellous Novel.'' Science-Fiction Studies
Vol. 21, #64 (1994): 397-405.
Roger Bozzetto. "Science Fiction in France: The Comeback." Science Fiction Studies Vol. 26 #79 (1999): 431-435.
Volker Dehs. "Editorial." Verniana Vol. 2 (2009-10): iii-iv.
Book
Reviews:
Paul K.
Alkon. Origins of Futuristic Fiction (Georgia University
Press, 1987) in Science-Fiction Studies Vol. 16, #47 (1989):
94-102.
Norbert Spehner.
Ecrits sur la science-fiction (Ed. Préamble, 1988)
in Science-Fiction Studies Vol. 16, #48 (1989): 240-242.
Andrew Martin. The Mask of the Prophet (Oxford UP, 1990) in Nineteenth-Century
French Studies Vol. 19, #4 (1991): 629-631.
Olena H. Sacuik,
ed. The Shape of the Fantastic (Greenwood Press, 1990) in
Science-Fiction Studies Vol. 18, #53 (1991): 140.
Michele K. Langford,
ed. Contours of the Fantastic (Greenwood Press, 1990) in
Science-Fiction Studies Vol. 18, #53 (1991): 140.
Monique Lebailly,
ed. La Science-fiction avant la SF (Ed. Instant, 1989) in
Science-Fiction Studies Vol. 18, #53 (1991): 141-143.
William Butcher.
Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Self (Macmillan, 1990)
in Science-Fiction Studies Vol. 18, #54 (1991): 275-279.
Daniel Compère. Jules Verne: Ecrivain (Droz, 1991) in
Nineteenth-Century French Studies Vol. 20, #3-4 (1992): 509-510.
Jules Verne.
The Floating Island (Routledge, 1991) in Science-Fiction
Studies Vol. 19, #57 (1992): 261-263.
Jules Verne.
The Complete Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, ed. and
trans. Emanuel J. Mickel (Indiana University Press, 1992) in Science-Fiction
Studies Vol. 19, #57 (1992): 261- 263.
Roger Bozzetto.
L'Obscur objet d'un savoir (Provence UP, 1992) in Science-Fiction
Studies Vol. 19, #58 (1992): 430.
Donald
E. Morse et al., eds. Celebration of the Fantastic (Greenwood
Press, 1992) in Science-Fiction Studies Vol. 20, #59 (1993):
119-120.
Nicholas
Ruddick, ed. State of the Fantastic (Greenwood Press, 1992)
in Science-Fiction Studies Vol. 20, #59 (1993): 119-120.
Timothy Unwin. Jules Verne: Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours
(Glascow UP, 1992) in Nineteenth-Century French Studies Vol.
22, #1-2 (1993-1994): 272-274.
Jules Verne.
Adventures of the Rat Family (Oxford UP, 1993) in Science-Fiction
Studies Vol. 21, #62 (1994): 118.
Bruce Cassiday,
ed. Modern Mystery, Fantasy, and Science Fiction Writers
(Continuum, 1993) in Science-Fiction Studies Vol. 21, #62 (1994):
119-120.
Paul K. Alkon.
Science Fiction Before 1900 (Twayne, 1994) in Science-Fiction
Studies Vol. 21, #64 (1994): 418-420.
Neil Barron,
ed. Anatomy of Wonder 4 (R.R. Bowker, 1995) in Science-Fiction
Studies Vol. 22, #66 (1995): 285-288.
Jules Verne.
Journey to the Center of the Earth, trans. William Butcher
(Oxford UP, 1992) in Science-Fiction Studies Vol. 22, #66 (1995):
288-289.
Jules Verne.
Around the World in 80 Days, trans. William Butcher (Oxford
UP, 1995) in Science-Fiction Studies Vol. 22, #66 (1995): 288-289.
Brian Taves and
Stephen Michaluk. The Jules Verne Encyclopedia (Scarecrow
Press, 1996) in Science-Fiction Studies Vol. 23, #69 (1996):
305-306.
David Seed, ed. Anticipations: Essays on Early Science Fiction and
its Precursors (Syracuse University Press, 1995) in Utopian Studies
Vol. 6, #1 (1996): 144-45.
Jules Verne. Paris in the Twentieth Century in The Indianapolis
Star (Sunday, Jan. 12, 1997): D6.
Herbert Lottman. Jules Verne: An Exploratory Biography in SFRA
Review No. 228 (March/April 1997): 57-59.
Roger Bozzetto.
Territoires des Fantastiques: des romans gothiques aux récits
d'horreur moderne (Univ. de Provence, 1998) in Science Fiction
Studies Vol. 26 #77 (1999): 149-50.
Stéphane
Nicot, ed. Les Univers de la Science-Fiction: Essais (Galaxies,
1998) in Science Fiction Studies Vol. 26 #77 (1999): 150-52.
Daniel Compère
and J.-M. Margot, eds. Entretiens avec Jules Verne, 1873-1905
(Slatkine, 1998) in Science Fiction Studies Vol. 26, #78 (1999):
334-36.
Thomas C. Renzi.
Jules Verne on Film (McFarland, 1998) in Science Fiction
Studies Vol. 26, #79 (1999): 493-95.
Gregory Claeys,
ed. Modern British Utopias, 1700-1850 (Pickering and Chatto,
1997) in Science Fiction Studies vol. 27, #81 (2000): 365-67.
Jules Verne. Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Around the World
in 80 Days, and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, trans.
William Butcher (Oxford UP, 1992, 1995, 1998) in Nineteenth-Century
French Studies Vol. 29, #1-2 (2000): 181-83.
Olivier
Dumas, Piero Gondolo della Riva, and Volker Dehs, eds. Correspondance
inédite de Jules Verne et de Pierre-Jules Hetzel (1863-1886).
Tome I (1863-1874) in Science Fiction Studies Vol. 28,
#83 (2001): 97-106.
Jean-Marc
and Randy Lofficier. French Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and
Pulp Fiction: A Guide to the Cinema, Television, Radio, Animation, Comic
Books, and Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present (McFarland,
2000) in Science Fiction Studies Vol. 28, #84 (2001): 275-83.
Jean-Marc
Gouanvic. Sociologie de la traduction (Artois Presses, 1999)
in Science Fiction Studies Vol. 28, #84 (2001): 303-04.
Alan Sandison
and Robert Dingley, eds. Histories of the Future: Studies in Fact,
Fantasy and Science Fiction (Palgrave, 2000) in Science Fiction
Studies Vol. 29, #86 (2002): 128-32.
Nadia Minerva. Jules Verne aux confins de l'utopie. (Paris: L'Harmattan)
2001, in Utopian Studies Vol.13.2 (2002): 183-185.
Riikka
Forsström. Possible Worlds: The Idea of Happiness in the Utopian
Vision of Louis-Sébastien Mercier (Helsinki: Suomalaisen
Kirjallisuuden) 2002, in Science Fiction Studies vol. 30, #89
(2003): 130-32.
Arnaud Huftier,
ed. La Belgique: un jeu de cartes? (Presses universitaires
de Valenciennes, 2003) in Science Fiction Studies Vol. 31, #94
(2004): 457-59.
Roger Bozzetto
and Arnaud Huftier. Les Frontières du fantastique
(Presses universitaires de Valenciennes, 2004) in Science Fiction
Studies Vol. 31, #94 (2004): 457-59.
Jules Verne.
Journey Through the Impossible. Trans. Edward Baxter. Ed.
Jean-Michel Margot (Prometheus, 2003) in Science Fiction Studies
Vol. 31, #94 (2004): 479-80.
"Centennial
Scholarship on Jules Verne." Review of a variety of books on/by
Jules Verne published in 2005. In Science Fiction Studies Vol.
34, #100 (2006): 557-61.
Timothy Unwin. Jules Verne: Journeys in Writing (Liverpool
UP, 2005) in Modern Language Review 102.2 (2007): 517-18.
Jules
Verne. The Golden Volcano. Trans. and ed. Edward Baxter.
Preface Olivier Dumas. (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2008) in Science
Fiction Studies Vol. 36, #108 (2009): 321-326.
Jules Verne. Amazing Journeys: Five Visionary Classics. Trans. and ed. Frederick Paul Walter. (SUNY Press, 2010) in Science Fiction Studies Vol. 37 #112 (November 2010): 515-519.
Jules Verne. The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz. Trans. and ed. Peter Schulmann. (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2011) in Science Fiction Studies Vol. 39 #116 (2012): 150-153.
Published notes, correspondence, newspaper articles, interviews, etc.:
Olivier Dumas. "La Loi du Nautilus.'' Bulletin de la Société
Jules Verne #98 (1991): 48.
Olivier Dumas. "Les Variantes de Vingt mille lieues sous les mers.''
Bulletin de la Société Jules Verne #105 (1993):
34.
Jim Zook. "Daring Journal of SF Theory." The Chronicle
of Higher Education (June 1, 1994): sect. A, p. 8.
"Actualités de Jules Verne.'' Bulletin de la Société
Jules Verne #111 (1994): 4.
"Verne: A Friend to Every Boy.'' Foundation: The Review of Science
Fiction #64 (Summer 1995): 97-98.
Roger M. Showley. "A Jules Verne S.D. Adventure." San Diego
Union-Tribune (Dec. 22, 1999).
Kristi Wright. "Looking Ahead: Jules Verne Would Be Happy With
Future." Omaha Sunday World-Herald (Jan. 16, 2000).
Linton Weeks and John Schwartz. "Sci-Fi, Chasing a Warp-Speed Universe."
The Washington Post (May 13, 2000): sect. C, pp. 1, 4.
Roger Moore. "Hollywood's Double Vision: Clones." The Orlando
Sentinel (Aug. 22, 2001).
Scott McLemee. "Lost
Worlds of Science Fiction." The Chronicle of Higher Education
(Dec. 21, 2001): sect. A, pp. 12-13.
William Porter. "Afro-American Sci-Fi Writers." The Denver
Post (Feb. 17, 2002).
Susan Adams. "Eerily
Prescient" Forbes Magazine (April 15, 2002).
Doug Stewart. "Prescient
and Accounted For." Smithsonian Vol. 35, no. 12 (March
2005): 103-07. Interview on Verne's centenary.
"Prophetic Jules Verne Recalled a Century After Novelist's Death."
Associated Press article reprinted in the Courier-Post (New
Jersey) on March 16, 2005 and in The Indianapolis Star on March
25, 2005, among other daily newspapers.
John J. Miller. "A Century After His Death: A Jules Verne Revival."The
Wall Street Journal (Sept. 18, 2007): D8.
Ronald Hawkins. "No Longer Considered Pulp Fiction." Reporter-Times
(March 20, 2008).
"Two Titans Remembered: Walter James Miller (1918-2101) and E.F. Bleiler (1920-2010)." Science Fiction Studies Vol. 37, #112 (Nov. 2010): 528-30.
Public
lectures:
"Technology and Foreign Language Learning." Annual convention of TESOL held at DePauw University on Oct. 9, 1993.
"Jules Verne, Science Fiction,
and Academe.'' Guest lecture given at the Smithsonian Institution
(Air and Space Museum) on Jan. 24, 1995.
"Can Reading Science Fiction Make You Smarter?" Guest lecture given at Wabash College on Oct. 19, 2010.
"Was Jules Verne a Writer of Science Fiction?" Guest lecture given at Princeton University on April 20, 2012.
Documentary
film:
Consultant for the History Channel's
Fantastic Voyage: Evolution of Science Fiction (Atlas Media
Corp. Producer/Director Bill McClaine. First broadcast on Sept. 28,
2002.)
Awards:
Science Fiction Research Association's 2012 Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service. Presented each year for "outstanding service activities in the field: promotion of SF teaching and study, editing, reviewing, editorial writing, publishing, organizing meetings, mentoring, and leadership in SF/fantasy organizations."
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