Foundation: the international review of science fiction 89

by Farah Mendlesohn (Editor)

Foundation is published three times a year by the Science Fiction Foundation. Foundation is a peer reviewed journal. In this Gary Westfahl meditates on "Time is the Simplest Thing." Ernest Yanarella examines Robinson's Mars stories and Elizabeth Leane looks at Robinson's "Antartica." Matthew Moore sees ambivalence in Wyndham's Web. Christine Mains sees wizardry in Joan D. Vinge's "Hegemony." David Seed maps the post-nuclear landscape. Sara Martin compares the two versions of "Frankenstein Unbound" and Lavie Tidhar introduces sf in contemporary China.

128 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2003

About the author

Farah Mendlesohn is a Hugo Award-winning British academic and writer on science fiction. In 2005 she won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book for The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction, which she edited with Edward James.

Mendlesohn is Professor of Literary History at Anglia Ruskin University, where she is also Head of English and Media. She writes on Science Fiction, Fantasy, Children's Literature and Historical Fiction. She received her D.Phil. in History from the University of York in 1997.

Her book Rhetorics of Fantasy won the BSFA award for best non-fiction book in 2009; the book was also nominated for both Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.

In 2010 she was twice nominated for Hugo Awards in the Best Related Books category.

She was the editor of Foundation - The International Review of Science Fiction from 2002 to 2007. She formerly was Reviews Editor of Quaker Studies.