No. 18 – Fifties Fiction (2003)

Edited by Josh Lukin & Samuel R. Delany

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Table of Contents

• Under Gray Flannel, pp 1-7
  Josh Lukin
• Cold War Confessions and the FBI Plant: The Amazing Lives and Myths of Matt Cvetic and Herbert Philbrick, pp 8-23
  Cyndy Hendershot
  
• Who’s Been Duped? Communists, Kids and Dangerous Drawings in Entertaining Comics’ “Cosmic Ray Bomb Explosion,” pp 24-48
  Tova Cooper
  
• Paradoxa Interview with Chandler Davis: “Trying to Say Something True,” pp 49-80
  Josh Lukin
  
• Sociology as Science Fiction, pp 81-98
  Andrew Hoberek
  
• The Prostitute Speaks: Brenda Frazer’s Troia: Mexican Memoirs, pp 99-117
  Kurt Hemmer
  
• “A Love Flung Out of Space”: Lesbians in the City in Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt, pp 118-135
  Victoria J. Hesford
  
• The Revolting Housewife: Women and Science Fiction in the 1950s, pp 136-156
  Justine Larbalestier & Helen Merrick
  
• Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a Train as Tragedy of Manners, pp 157-194
  Josh Lukin
  
• Paradoxa Interview with Richard Matheson, pp 195-210
  Jack O’Connell & James Sallis
  
• “If I Can Only Get It Funny”: The Postwar Primitive and Chester Himes’ Parodic Protest Novel, pp 211-233
  Stephanie Brown
  
• “Bullies and Humanists”: Richard Wright’s The Outsider, pp 234-250
  Holly Hutton
  
• Voyage from Lesbos: Aggression, Ambivalence, and Psychoanalysis in the Fifties, pp 251-278
  Julia Creet
  
• Velocities of Change, pp 279-312
  Samuel R. Delany
• Paradoxa Interview with William Tenn: ”A Jew’s Eye View of the Universe,”, pp 313-344
  Josh Lukin
  
• Review of Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000, pp 345-349
  Christina Klein
• Review of White Diaspora: The Suburb and the Twentieth –Century American Novel, pp 350-356
  Tracy Floreani
• The Lore of the Ding-a-Lings: An Appreciation of W.T. Lhanon Jr.’s Deliberate Speed, pp357-365
  James Morrow
• Review of Monsters, Mushroom Clouds, and the Cold War: American Science Fiction and the Roots of Postmodernism 1946-1954, pp 366-372
  Brian McHale
• Review of The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction, pp 373-379
  Ann Keefer
• Review of Science Fiction Culture, pp 380-388
  L. Timmel Duchamp
• Review of The Post-Utopian Imagination: American Culture in the Long 1950s, pp 389-304
  Elayne Tobin
• 18 Thoughts on Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril, pp 395-398
  Wendy Pearson
• In Memorium: Leslie Fiedler, pp 399-407
  Josh Lukin, Lennard J. Davis, Jonathan Freedman, Richard Alan Macksey, Emanuel J. Fried