ariel 33:1, 2002
Introduction
Writing Back: Speculative Fiction and the Politics of Postcolonialism, 2001
Dominic Alessio
Close Encounters of the Earliest Kind: A Postcolonial Sighting of Aliens from the Planet Venus and the First Human Colony in Science Fiction (1881)
Matthew Candelaria
The Overlordís Burden: The Source of Sorrow in Childhoodís End
Maria Cristina Fumagalli
Representing the World Instead of Reproducing It: M. P. Shielís The Purple Cloud
Elizabeth Leane
Chromodynamics: Science and Colonialism in Kim Stanley Robinsonís Mars Trilogy
Judith Leggatt
Other Worlds, Other Selves: Science Fiction in Salman Rushdieís The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Ralph Pordzik
“Thinking about the Future”: Ireland and the Irish Conflict in Irish Utopian Literature Since the Nineteenth Century
Rebecca Tillett
“Your Story Reminds Me of Something”: Spectacle and Speculation in Aaron Carrís Eye Killers
Interview
 
 
  “Caught by a genre”: An Interview with Nalo Hopkinson by Nancy Batty  
Poems
 
 
Rabindra K. Swain
All the Cravings
Rabindra K. Swain
The Face of Memory
Bev Braune
Homeless (or post-Colonial)
Bev Braune
from The Real Coulibri
Shane Rhodes
Daybreak on 5th Street
Shane Rhodes
Excerpts from The Book of Saints
Brian Burke
no sleep
Brian Burke
night beneath a tree
Book Reviews
 
 
Nancy Batty
Sheree R. Thomas, ed. Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Nalo Hopkinson, ed. Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction.
Nusya James Thomas Campbell
Arthur F. Kinney, ed. The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500-1600.
Carol Bere
Elaine Feinstein, Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet.
Notes on Contributors