1986-1990

Guest Editor and Introduction, Nuclear War and Science Fiction, Special Issue of Science-Fiction Studies, 13 (July 1986).

“Strange Scenarios: Science Fiction, the Theory of Alienation, and the Nuclear Gods,” Science-Fiction Studies, 13 (July 1986), 117-128.

Review of Critique of Commodity Aesthetics by Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Criticism, 27 (Fall 1986), 480-483.

“Vietnam and America” (with Jane Franklin), WFMU, January 22, 1986.

“Loomings,” Melville Section, Northeast Modern Language Association, April 4, 1986.

“The Myth of the Superweapon in American Culture,” News/Sun-Sentinel, March 15, 1987, pp. 1G, 3G, 6G.

“Fantasies of Power: The Superweapon in American Culture,” University of Miami, February 19, 1987.

“Writing from America’s Prisons,” Center for American Culture Studies, Columbia University, April 6, 1987.

“Nuclear Culture: Popular Perspectives,” Commentator, American Studies Association International Convention, November 22, 1987.

THE VICTIM AS CRIMINAL AND ARTIST: LITERATURE FROM THE AMERICAN PRISON. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1978. xxvi+337 pages. Paperback (revised and expanded) edition published as PRISON LITERATURE IN AMERICA: THE VICTIM AS CRIMINAL AND ARTIST. Westport, CT: Lawrence Hill & Co., 1982. xxx+303 pages. [Annotated bibliography published as companion volume.] Third edition, revised and expanded, including “Annotated Bibliography of Literature by American Prisoners, 1798-1988,” New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. xxxvi+341 pages.

VIETNAM AND AMERICA: A DOCUMENTED HISTORY. Co-edited with historical introductions and notes co-authored with Marvin E. Gettleman, Jane M. Franklin, and Marilyn Young. New York: Grove Press, 1985; 1988. xvi+524 pages. Revised and expanded edition, New York: Grove/Atlantic, 1995. xv+560 pages.

WAR STARS: THE SUPERWEAPON AND THE AMERICAN IMAGINATION. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. x+256 pages. Paperback edition, 1990. Revised and expanded edition, Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. xii+280 pages. [WAR STARS: GUERRA, CIENCIA FICCIÓN Y HEGEMONÍA IMPERIAL. (Spanish edition.) Translated by Mario Iribarren. Introduction by Andrés Criscaut. Buenos Aires: Final Abierto, 2011. 462 pages.] [Japanese edition, Translated by Nobuo Kamioka (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2011.] [Cuban edition, forthcoming, 2018, Instituto Cubano del Libro.]

“Theodore Sturgeon: ‘Thunder and Roses'” in The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology. NY: Harper & Row, 1988.

(“Animal Farm Unbound” [reprint] in Modern Critical Interpretations: Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, edited by Harold Bloom. New Haven: Chelsea House, 1988, 29-44.)

Review of Nuclear Fears: A History of Images by Spencer R. Weart, Science, 240 (May 20, 1988), 1051-52.

Review essay on The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam by James William Gibson, American Quarterly, 40 (Fall 1988), 422-28.

“Nuclear Promise/Threat,” The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. NY and London: Viking/Penguin, 1988, 336-38.

“The Superweapon and American Culture,” Newark Museum, March 8, 1988.

“The Bomber, the Bomb, and the Screen,” Conference on the War Film: Contexts and Images, University of Massachusetts at Boston, March 24, 1988.

“Teaching the Vietnam War,” Socialist Scholars Conference, New York, April 10, 1988.

“Urban Violence in Recent Science Fiction” (Panelist), J. Lloyd Eaton Conference, University of California, Riverside, April 15, 1988.

Keynote Address, “Science Fiction, Hiroshima, and the Baruch Plan,” J. Lloyd Eaton Conference, University of California, Riverside, April 16, 1988.

“Domesticating the Bomb: Nuclear Weapon in Testament and the Fiction of Judith Merril, Helen Clarkson, Kate Wilhelm, and Carol Amen,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, October 30, 1988.

“From Outsider to Insider: Melville’s Narrative Strategies,” Melville Society Annual Meeting, Modern Language Association Convention, December 28, 1988.

“The Bomb in the Home,” Special Session, “Nuclear Texts for the English Class,” Modern Language Association Convention, December 28, 1988.

Discussions of War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination: WFAD, Vermont (November 29, 1988); KLBJ-AM Austin, TX (November 29, 1988); KING-AM, Seattle, WA (December 2, 1988); WBZ-AM, Boston (December 4, 1988); WBAI-FM, New York (December 7, 1988); International Media Service, national syndication on 200 radio stations (taped in December 1988); “Consider the Alternatives,” national syndication on 140 radio stations (taped in December 1988); “Ask Washington,” National Chamber of Commerce TV, national syndication on 130 TV stations (taped in December 1988); Copley News Service, syndicated to 1300 radio stations (December 22, 1988); WBEZ, Chicago (January 3, 1989); WGN-AM, Chicago (January 4, 1989); WHP, Harrisburg, PA (January 11, 1989); KPFA-FM, Berkeley (January 13 and 18, 1989); KALW, San Francisco (taping, January 13,1989); Modern Times Bookstore, San Francisco (January 13, 1989); “Radio for Peace,” Costa Rica (taping, January 14, 1989); Midnight Special Bookstore, Santa Monica (January 15, 1989); KPFK-FM, Los Angeles (taping, January 16, 1989); ABC-AM Network, two-hour live broadcast from Los Angeles (January 17, 1989); KGIL-AM, San Fernando Valley (January 17, 1989); KGO- AM, San Francisco (January 18, 1989); KCSM-FM, San Mateo, CA (January 19); Kepler’s Bookstore, Menlo Park, CA (January 19); Cody’s Bookstore, Berkeley (January 20); KLAX-FM, Berkeley (taping, January 21); KFI-AM, Los Angeles (January 24); WNWS-AM, Miami (January 26); KLBJ-AM, Austin, TX (January 30); WPVI-TV, Channel 6, Philadelphia (January 31); KFRU-AM, Columbia, Missouri (February 9); QIK-FM, Calgary, Alberta (February 14); KQED, San Francisco (February 23); WTOP, Washington (March 3); WABC, New York (March 7); WPTF, Raleigh, NC (March 28); WHYY, Philadelphia (May 9).

(“What Are We to Make of J. G. Ballard’s Apocalypse?” [reprint] in Short Story Criticism. Detroit: Gale Research, 1989.)

“The Superweapon and Its Cultural Images” (excerpted from War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination), Zeta Magazine, 2 (February 1989), 97-103.

(“Teaching Vietnam Today: Who Won, and Why?” [reprint] in Points of View On American Higher Education. Edited by Stephen H. Barnes. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1989, 148-53.)

Afterword, Mordecai Roshwald, Level 7. New York: Lawrence HillBooks, 1989, 185-92.

“Fatal Fiction: A Weapon to End All Wars,” The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 45 (November 1989), cover, 18-25.

Review of W. Warren Wagar, A Short History of the Future, Book World, Washington Post, December 25, 1989.

“From Outsider to Insider: Melville’s Narrative Strategies,” Melville Society Extracts, 76 (February 1989), 3-5.

“The Greatest Fantasy on Earth: The Superweapon in Fiction and Fact,” Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, March 16, 1989.

Discussions of Prison Literature in America: The Victim as Criminal and Artist: WFAD, Vermont (April 27, 1989); WTOP, Washington (May 9); International Media Service, national syndication on 200 radio stations (taped in May, 1989); “Meet the Authors,” National Chamber of Commerce TV, national syndication on 130 TV stations (taped in May, 1989); WBAI, New York (May 22, 1989); WPVI-TV, Channel 6, Philadelphia (May 28, 1989).

“Will the Future Be Marxist?” World Science Fiction Convention, September 1, 1989.

“The Ultimate Weapon of American Science Fiction,” World Science Fiction Convention, September 2, 1989.

“The Work of Robert A. Heinlein,” World Science Fiction Convention, September 3, 1989.

“Apocalyptic Visions: The Prehistory of Strategic Bombing,” National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, October 5, 1989.

“Fatal Fictions” (interview), WBEZ (Chicago), November 2, 1989.

“Superweapons Past and Present” (interview), WBEZ (Chicago), December 5, 1989.

“1968; Or, Bringing the War Home: The Vision of the Movement and the Alternative Press,” The Vietnam Era. Ed. Michael Klein. London: Pluto Press and Winchester, MA: Unwin Hyman, 1990, 65-81.

Review of Rationalizing Genius: Ideological Strategies in the Classical American Science Fiction Short Story by John Huntington, Science-Fiction Studies, 17 (March 1990), 115-17.

(“Science Fiction” [extended excerpts from Future Perfect]. Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, 24. Ed. Janet Mullane and Robert T. Wilson. Detroit: Gale Research, 1990. 283-90.)

“The Vietnam War as American Science Fiction and Fantasy,” Science-Fiction Studies, 17 (November 1990), 341-59.

“Eternally Safe for Democracy: The Final Peace of American Science Fiction,” Science Fiction, Social Conflict and War, Ed. Philip Davies. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990. 151-168.

“Teaching the Vietnam War in the 1990s,” Educational Resources Information Center, U.S. Department of Education, 1995.

“Visions of the Ultimate Weapon in American Technology, Culture, and Policy,” Science and Public Policy Section, New York Academy of Sciences, February 7, 1990.

“The Ultimate Weapon in American Culture,” National Association for Science, Technology & Society Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, February 3, 1990.

“The Vietnam War as Fantasy and Science Fiction,” The Fantastic Imagination in New Critical Theories Conference, Texas A&M University, March 2, 1990.

Guest Scholar Speech, Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. March 23, 1990.

“Science Fiction, Fantasy, and War” (panel), Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. March 23, 1990.

“Sexualizing Technology,” Session Chairperson, Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. March 24, 1990.

“The Biggest Addiction of All: America’s Superweapons,” Montclair State College, May 1, 1990.

“War Stars: The Ultimate Weapon of American Culture,” State University of New York at Binghamton, November 14, 1990.

“Teaching the Vietnam War in the 1990s,” Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association Conference, Philadelphia, April 15, 1995.