Acknowledgments

Introduction: Masters of the Literary Universe

Part I. Overviews: Science Fiction and the Academy

Literary Gatekeepers and the Fabril Tradition

Seven Types of Chopped Liver: My Adventures in the Genre Wars

The Things Women Don't Say

Why the Academy Is Afraid of Dragons: The Suppression of the Marvelous in Theories of the Fantastic

Part II. Mechanisms of Canonization

The Arthur C. Clarke Award and Its Reception in Britain

Popes or Tropes: Defining the Grails of Science Fiction

Science Fiction Eye and the Rebellion against Recursion

Authorities, Canons, and Scholarship: The Role of Academic Journals

Part III. Case Studies in Marginalization

Multiculturalism and the Cultural Dynamics of Classic American Science Fiction

Science Fiction in the Academies of History and Literature; Or, History and the Use of Science Fiction

(E)raced Visions: Women of Color and Science Fiction in the United States

Hard Magic, Soft Science: The Marginalization of Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason's Assemblers of Infinity and Bruce Boston's Stained Glass Rain

White Men Can't . . .: (De)centering Authority and Jacking into Phallic Economies in William Gibson's Count Zero

Bibliography of Works Related to Science Fiction, Canonization, and Marginalization

Index

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