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CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction I. GETTING INSIDE SCIENCE FICTION 1. The Education of a Science Fiction Teacher 2. From the Pulps to the Classroom: The Strange Journey of Science Fiction 3. Science Fiction and the Mainstream 4. The Gatekeepers 5. Fifty Amazing, Astounding, Wonderful Years 6. The Worldview of Science Fiction II. SCIENCE FICTION AND THE TEACHER 7. Teaching Science Fiction 8. Teaching Science Fiction Revisited 9. The Academic Viewpoint 10. Science Fiction as Literature 11. The City and the Critics 12. Libraries in Science Fiction 13. The Protocols of Science Fiction III. SCIENCE FICTION ON FILM AND TELEVISION 14. The Tinsel Screen 15. Television and "The Immortal" 16. The Great Science Fiction Radio Show 17. Looking Backward at 2001 IV. SCIENCE FICTION AND THE REAL WORLD 18. The Uses of Space 19. A Short History of the Space Program; or, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon 20. Shapechangers and Fearmongers 21. Science Fiction and the Future 22. Science Fiction in the Nineties 23. Science Fiction in the Second Millennium Index About the Author A James Gunn Bibliography
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Science fiction -- Study and teaching.
Science fiction -- History and criticism.