Fantasy and Science Fiction
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Clareson, Thomas D. Understanding Contemporary American Science Fiction: The Formative Period (1926-1970). Columbia, SC: U of South Carolina P, 1990. Pp. 300. $22.95. Review Thomas J. Remington, Extrapolation 32.2 (Summer 1991): 193-99. Includes science fiction for children. "Authoritative." G.A.
Crago, Hugh. "A Strange Dark Shop." Children's Literature Association Quarterly 16.1 (Spring 1991): 33-37. Explores the iconography and meaning of the Magic Shop, beginning with E. Nesbit's The Story of the Amulet. G.A.
Davies, Philip John, ed. Science Fiction, Social Conflict and War. Manchester Manchester UP. Pp. 185. ISBN 0-7190-3288-1. £29.95; paper £8.95. Review, Patrick Parrinder, "In the Futures Market," Times Literary Supplement 30 August 1991:18. A "valuable though patchy" collection of essays that focuses on the predominance of themes of war and social conflict in science fiction. Some topics addressed are feminist writers, racial stereotypes, environmental disaster, and "post-holocaust survivalist fiction." G.A.
Fisher, Leona W. "Mystical Fantasy for Children: Silence and Community." The Lion and the Unicorn 14.2 (Dec. 1990): 37-57. An important critical essay which demonstrates the union between the solitary visionary experience and the powerful communal experiences of children. Heavily annotated. G.A.
Gamer, Barbara Carman. "Lost and Found in Time: Canadian Timeslip Fantasies for Children." Children's Literature Association Quarterly 15.4 (Winter 1990): 206-11. Uses fantasies by Margaret Buffle, Janet Lunn, and Cora Taylor to demonstrate that authors use one of three patterns to enable their protagonist to affect the past and to find themselves anew in the present. G.A.
Gilead, Sarah. "Magic Abjured; Closure in Children's Fantasy Fiction." PMLA (March 1991): 277-93. Examines the meta-literary thrust of the framing device and suggests "a tripartite taxonomy of closural effects: therapeutic-socializing, fantasy rejecting, and tragic." Also deals with conflicting adult agendas. G.A.
Lehr, Susan. "Fantasy Inner Journeys for Today's Child." Publishing Research Quarterly 7.3 (Fall 1991): 91-101. Divides the fantasy genre into 5 categories: high, time-slip, animal, realistic, and picture books. Provides examples and reviews trends. G.A.
Lepage, Françoise. "Pour une rhetorique de la representation fantastique (In search of a theory of illustration of fantastique literature.) Canadian Children's Literature 60 (1990): 97-107. Distinguishes the French tradition of fantastique from the English 'fantasy' on the basis of picture books by Suzanne Duranceau, Ginette Anfousse, Marie-Louise Gay, and Marc Mongeau. G.A. [End Page 80]
Nimon, Maureen. "Living With Ourselves: Recent Australian Science Fiction for Children and Young People." Children's Literature Association Quarterly 15.4(Winter 1990): 185-89. Discusses novels by Lee Harding, Victor Kelleher, and Gillian Rubinstein which focus on characters dissatisfied with the oppressive societies and usually bleak futures that are the result of devastating warfare. G.A.
Pierce, Meredith Ann. "Out of this World: Science Fiction Booktalks for the Adolescent as Public Library Sponsored Programs in the Schools." VOYA 14.3(August 1991): 148-58, 163-64. Suggestions on how to establish effective book talk programs. Includes annotated bibliography of sources on booktalking and on science fiction for young adults. K.P.
Sullivan, C. W. III. Welsh Celtic Myth in Modern Fantasy. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1989. Appendices, 3 Bibliographies, Index. Essay review, Norma Bagnall, Children's Literature Association Quarterly 16.1 (Spring 1991): 38-39. How the tales of the Mabinogian are translated into modern fantasy by six 20th cen. writers: Alan Garner, Evangeline Walton, Kenneth Morris, Nancy Bond, Lloyd Alexander, and Susan Cooper. Begins with an overview of the Welsh influence on Western literature and includes chapters on aesthetic and thematic uses of Welsh myth. "Thorough and sound." G.A.
See also AUTHORS: Bujold, Card, Heinlein, Paxson, Mahy, Rodenberry, Rubinstein, Tolkien, Verne; BIBLIOGRAPHIES: "VOYA"; FOLKLORE: Gauch, White; ILLUSTRATION: Newsinger; MEDIA: Slaughter.
