Review-Articles:

• “J.G. Ballard, Grand Master?,” covering Andrzej Gasiorek’s J.G. Ballard, V. Vale’s J.G. Ballard: Conversations, and V. Vale and Mike Ryan’s J.G. Ballard: Quotes, forthcoming in Science Fiction Studies (November 2007).
• "Autopia or Autogeddon? Recent Books on 'Car Culture'," in special "Suburbia" issue of The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies 3 (Fall 2003).
• "A Tendentious Tendency in SF Criticism," covering Patrick Parrinder, ed., Learning from Other Worlds: Estrangemant, Cognition and the Politics of SF and Utopia and Tom Moylan, Scraps of the Untainted Sky: Science Fiction, Utopia, Dystopia, in Science Fiction Studies 29:1 (March 2002), pp. 100-110.
• "Recent Reference Works on SF, Fantasy, and Horror," covering Richard Bleiler, ed. Science Fiction Writers: Critical Studies of the Major Authors from the Early Nineteenth Century to the Present Day; Neil Barron, ed. Fantasy and Horror: A Critical and Historical Guide to Literature, Illustration, Film, TV, Radio, and the Internet; Robert Sabella's Who Shaped Science Fiction?; and Roger Shepard's Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, in Science Fiction Studies 28:3 (November 2001), pp. 436-442.
• "Phallic Mothers and Monster Queers: Gender and Horror Cinema," covering Barry Keith Grant, ed., The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film and Harry M. Benshoff, Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film, in Science-Fiction Studies 25:1 (March 1998).
• "The Modern World Is an Enormous Fiction," covering J.G. Ballard's A User's Guide to the Millenium, in The New York Review of Science Fiction 103 (March 1997).
• "Reality Bites: The Gen-X Vampire," covering Anne Billson's Suckers, Michael Cadnum's The Judas Glass, and Christopher Moore's Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story, in Necrofile: The Review of Horror Fiction 20 (Spring 1996).
• "Violent Insertion and Destruction Penetration: The Homoerotics of Suspense Fiction," covering Iain Banks' Complicity and Marc Laidlaw's The Orchid Eater, in The New York Review of Science Fiction 70 (June 1994).
• "Cyberpunk = Gibson = Neuromancer," covering George Slusser and Tom Shippey, eds., Fiction 2000: Cyberpunk and the Future of Narrative, in Science-Fiction Studies 20:2 (July 1993).
• "Their Day Out of the Sun: The Youth Culture Vampire," covering Poppy Z. Brite's Lost Souls, S.P. Somtow's Valentine, and Anne Rice's Tale of the Body Thief,in Necrofile: The Review of Horror Fiction 9 (Summer 1993).
• "Cultural Studies and Science Fiction," covering Antony Easthope's Literary into Cultural Studies, Lawrence Grossberg et al., eds., Cultural Studies, Andrew Ross's Strange Weather: Culture, Science, and Technology in the Age of Limits, and Andrew Ross and Constance Penley, eds., Technoculture, in SFRA Review 198 (June 1992).
• "Clanker vs. Gulper: Philip K. Dick's Mechanical Gothic," covering three novels of Philip K. Dick (The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Ubik, and A Scanner Darkly), in Necrofile: The Review of Horror Fiction 4 (Spring 1992).
• "The Garden City Utopia," covering Robert Beevers' The Garden City Utopia: A Critical Biography of Ebenezer Howard and Stanley Buder's Visionaries and Planners: The Garden City Movement and the Modern Community, in Utopian Studies 2:1-2 (1991).
• "Wrong Book at the Right Time," covering Sarah Lefanu's Feminism and Science Fiction, in SFRA Newsletter 170 (September 1989).
• "Gunn Misfires: Nicholls Still the Standard," covering James Gunn, ed., The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, in SFRA Newsletter 160 (September 1988). Reprinted in The Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review Annual: 1989.
• "What Next, Cyberpunks," on current cyberpunk science fiction, in Fantasy Review 10:2 (March 1987).
• "Three Perspectives on the Computerization of Culture," covering Pamela McCorduck's The Universal Machine: Confessions of a Technological Optimist, William Barrett's Death of the Soul: From Descartes to the Computer, and Racter's The Policeman's Beard is Half-Constructed: A Bizarre and Fantastic Journey into the Mind of a Machine, in Fantasy Review 9:11 (December 1986).

Reference Book Entries:

• 2000-word entry on Michael Moorcock in Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction, edited by Mark Bould, Andrew M. Butler, Adam Roberts, and Sherryl Vint, forthcoming from Routledge Press, 2007.
• 1000-word enry on “The Sexual Revolution” in Encyclopedia of the Culture Wars, edited by Roger Chapman, forthcoming from M.E. Sharpe, 2007.
• 3000-word entry on "Science Fiction" in The Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, edited by Carl Mitcham et al., forthcoming from Macmillan USA.
• 1000-word entries on "Communication," "Messiahs," and "Paranoia" in The Encyclopedia of Themes in Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Gary Westfahl, forthcoming from Greenwood Press.
• Two-dozen entries on specific authors, texts, and topics inWorld Supernatural Literature: An Encyclopedia, 3 volumes, edited by S.T. Joshi and Stefan Dziemianowicz, forthcoming from Greenwood Press.
• Entries on Mark Adlard, M. John Harrison, and Iain M. Banks, in Dictionary of Literary Biography volume on British Fantasy and Science-Fiction Writers Since World War II, ed. Darren Harris-Fain, Gale Press, 2002.
• Entry on Rachell Ingalls, in The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, ed. John Clute and John Grant, St. Martin's Press, 1997.
• Entries on Steven R. Boyett, Grania Davis, and Stephen Millhauser, in The St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, ed. David Pringle, St. James Press, 1996.
• Editorial Consultant for chapter covering Contemporary Science Fiction, and annotator of two dozen selected titles, for Anatomy of Wonder: A Reader's Guide to Science Fiction, ed. Neil Barron, Bowker, 1995. Also annotated five non-fiction titles on SF film in cinema chapter.

Reviews:

Non-Fiction:

• Serge Grüneberg, David Cronenberg: Interviews, forthcoming in the Journal of Science Fiction Film and Television, 2008.
• Brian Stableford, The Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Literature and Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia, forthcoming in The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 2007.
• David Seed, Brainwashing: The Fictions of Mind Control, A Study of Novels and Films Since World War II, Science Fiction Studies 33.3 (November 2006).
• George Pendle, Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons, Science Fiction Studies 33.3 (November 2006).
• Priscilla L. Walton, Our Cannibals, Ourselves, in Contemporary Literature 47:12 (Fall 2006).
• Mike Ashley, Transformations: The Story of the Science Fiction Magazines from 1950 to 1970, in Science Fiction Studies 32:3 (November 2005).
• Gary Cross, The Cute and the Cool: Wondrous Innocence and Modern American Children's Culture, forthcoming in The Journal of Consumer Culture in 2005.
• LINK TO: Carl Freedman, The Incomplete Projects: Marxism, Modernity, and the Politics of Culture, in Science Fiction Studies 31:3 (November 2004).
• LINK TO: Martin Jones, Psychedelic Decadence: Sex Drugs Low-Art in Sixties & Seventies Britain and Ruth Mayer. Artificial Africas: Colonial Images in the Times of Globalization, in Science Fiction Studies 30:1 (March 2003).
• LINK TO: Lee Server, Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers, in Science Fiction Studies 30:1 (March 2003).
• LINK TO: Dennis Fischer, Science Fiction Film Directors, in Science Fiction Studies 29:2 (July 2002).
• LINK TO: Frank Robinson, Science Fiction of the 20th Century and Brian Stableford, The Dictionary of Science Fiction Places, in Science Fiction Studies 27:2 (July 2000).
• LINK TO: Edgar Chapman, The Road to Castle Mount: The Science Fiction of Robert Silverberg, in Science Fiction Studies 27:2 (July 2000).
• LINK TO: Camille Paglia, The Birds and Iain Sinclair, Crash: David Cronenberg's Post-Mortem on J.G. Ballard's "Trajectory of Fate," in Science Fiction Studies 27:2 (July 2000).
• Michael Swanwick, The Postmodern Archipelago, in Science Fiction Studies 27:2 (July 2000).
• LINK TO: Glennis Byron, ed., New Casebooks: "Dracula," Clive Leatherdale, ed., Bram Stoker's "Dracula" Unearthed, and Slyvia Starshine, ed., Dracula: or The Un-Dead: A Play in Prologue and Five Acts, by Bram Stoker, in Science Fiction Studies 27:2 (July 2000).
• Brief Notice reviews covering Alan Morton, The Complete Directory to Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Television Series: A Comprehensive Guide to the First 50 Years, 1946 to 1996, and Roger Fulton and John Betancourt, The Sci-Fi Channel Encyclopedia of TV Science Fiction, in Science Fiction Studies 27:1 (March 2000)
• LINK TO: Tony Magistrale, ed., Discovering Stephen King's "The Shining": Essays on the Bestselling Novel by America's Premier Horror Writer, 2nd ed.; Bill Munster, ed., Discovering Dean Koontz: Essays on America's Bestselling Writer of Suspense and Horror Fiction; Darrell Schweitzer, Windows of the Imagination: Essays on Fantastic Literature; William F. Touponce, Ray Bradbury and the Poetics of Reverie: Gaston Bachelard , Wolfgang Iser, and the Reader's Response to Fantastic Literature; and James Gunn, ed., The British Way: The Road to Science Fiction, Volume 5, in Science Fiction Studies 26:3 (November 1999).
• LINK TO: Keith Allen Daniels' Arthur C. Clarke and Lord Dunsany: A Correspondence, James Grauerholz and Ira Silverberg's Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader, Magali Cornier Michael's Feminism and the Postmodern Impulse: Post-World War II Fiction, Teresa A Goddu's Gothic America: Narrative, History, Nation, and David G. Hartwell and Milton T. Wolf, eds. Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology, in Science Fiction Studies 26:2 (July 1999).
• Nina Auerbach, Our Vampires, Ourselves and Bram Dijkstra, Evil Sisters: The Threat of Female Sexuality and the Cult of Manhood, in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 24:3 (Spring 1999).
• LINK TO: Stephen T. Miller and William G. Contento's Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Weird Fiction Magazine Index (1890-1997), Charles N. Brown and William G. Contento's The Locus Index to Science Fiction, with Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections (by Contento), both cd-roms , in Science Fiction Studies 26:1 (March 1999).
• LINK TO: Clive Bloom's Gothic Horror: A Reader's Guide from Poe to King and Beyond, in Science Fiction Studies 26:1 (March 1999).
• LINK TO: Nina Auerbach and David J. Skal, eds., Dracula: A Norton Critical Edition, and Carol Davison, Bram Stoker's "Dracula": Sucking Through the Century, 1897-1997, in Science-Fiction Studies 26:1 (March 1999).
• LINK TO: Madelyn Jablon's Black Metafiction: Self-Consciousness in African American Literature, Mikita Brottman's Offensive Films: Towards an Anthropology of Cinema Vomitif, and Joseph Pearce's Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton, in Science Fiction Studies 25:3 (November 1998).
• Thomas McLaughlin, Street Smarts and Critical Theory: Listening to the Vernacular, in The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 31:2 (Winter 1998).
• John Clute and John Grant, eds., The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, in The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 9:1 (1998). Also reviewed in Necrofile: The Review of Horror Fiction 28 (Spring 1998)
• LINK TO: Applewhite Minyard, ed., Decades of Science Fiction, in Science-Fiction Studies 25:1 (March 1998).
• Brooks Landon, Science Fiction After 1900: From the Steam Man to the Stars, in The New York Review of Science Fiction 111 (November 1997).
• LINK TO: Tom Easton's Periodic Stars: An Overview of Science Fiction Literature in the 1980s and '90s, in Science-Fiction Studies 24:3 (November 1997).
• LINK TO: James C. Holte's Dracula in the Dark: The Dracula Film Adaptations, in Science-Fiction Studies 24:3 (November 1997).
• Gregory Stephenson's The Satirical World of Robert Sheckley, in Science-Fiction Studies 24:3 (November 1997).
• LINK TO: Mike Featherstone and Roger Burrows, eds., Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological Embodiment, in Science-Fiction Studies 24:1 (July 1997).
• Richard D. Erlich and Thomas P. Dunn, eds., Clockworks: A Multimedia Bibliography of Works Useful for the Study of the Human/Machine Interface in SF, in Utopian Studies 7:2 (1996).
• Susan Strehle's Fiction in the Quantum Universe, in Utopian Studies, 1995.
• John Clute and Peter Nicholls, eds., The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, in The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 6:4 (1995).
• Scott Bukatman's Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction, in The New York Review of Science Fiction 80 (April 1995).
• David J. Skal's The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror, in Other Dimensions: The Journal of Multimedia Horror 1 (Summer 1993).
• LINK TO: Charles L. Elkins and Martin Harry Greenberg, eds., Robert Silverberg's Many Trapdoors: Critical Essays on His Science Fiction, in Science-Fiction Studies 20:2 (July 1993).
• Brooks Landon's The Aesthetics of Ambivalence: Rethinking Science Fiction Film in the Age of Electronic (Re)Production, in SFRA Review 205 (May/June 1993).
• Mike Benton's Superhero Comics of the Golden Age: The Illustrated History, in SFRA Review 203 (January/February 1993).
• Paul Nathanson's Over the Rainbow: "The Wizard of Oz" as a Secular Myth of America, in SFRA Review 202 (December 1992).
• LINK TO: Jerry Palmer's Potboilers: Methods, Concepts, and Case Studies in Popular Fiction, in Science-Fiction Studies 19:3 (November 1992).
• Mike Benton's Superhero Comics of the Silver Age: The Illustrated History, in SFRA Review 198 (June 1992).
• Paul Coates' The Gorgon's Gaze: German Cinema, Expressionism, and the Image of Horror, in SFRA Review 197 (May 1992).
• Paul Williams, ed., The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick: 1974, in SFRA Review 197 (May 1992).
• Sally Robinson's Engendering the Subject: Gender and Self-Representation in Contemporary Women's Fiction, in SFRA Review 197 (May 1992).
• Walter Kendrick's The Thrill of Fear: 250 Years of Scary Entertainment, in Studies in Weird Fiction 11 (Spring 1992).
• Joseph Dewey's In a Dark Time: The Apocalyptic Temper in the American Novel of the Nuclear Age, in SFRA Review 196 (April 1992).
• Carl Malmgren's Worlds Apart: Narratology of Science Fiction, in SFRA Review 196 (April 1992).
• Lee Milazzo, ed., Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates, in SFRA Review 196 (April 1992).
• Les Daniels' Marvel: Five Fabulous Decades of the World's Greatest Comics, in SFRA Review 195 (March 1992).
• N. Katherine Hayles' Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science, in IAFA Newsletter (Spring 1992).
• Allan Lloyd-Smith's Uncanny American Fiction: Medusa's Face, in SFRA Newsletter 193 (December 1991).
• Roberta E. Pearson and William Uricchio, eds., The Many Lives of the Batman: Critical Approaches to the Superhero and His Media, in SFRA Newsletter 190 (September 1991).
• Robert S. Baker's "Brave New World": History, Science, Dystopia, in SFRA Newsletter 188 (June 1991).
• Daphne Patai, ed., Looking Backward, 1988-1888: Essays on Edward Bellamy, in SFRA Newsletter 188 (June 1991).
• Review covering two biographies of Philip K. Dick (Lawrence Sutin's Divine Invasions and Gregg Rickman's To the High Castle), in IAFA Newsletter (Fall 1991).
• Robert L. Savage, James Combs and Dan Nimmo, eds., The Orwellian Moment: Hindsight in the Post-1984 World, in SFRA Newsletter 187 (May1991).
• Thomas Doherty's Teenagers and Teenpics: The Juvenilization of American Movies in the 1950s, in SFRA Newsletter 163 (December 1988).
• Larry McCaffery, ed., Postmodern Fiction: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide, in SFRA Newsletter 160 (September 1988).
• Robert Eliot Fox's Conscientious Sorcerers: The Black Postmodernist Fiction of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Ishmael Reed, and Samuel R. Delany, in IAFA Newsletter (Spring 1988).
• Gregory A. Waller, ed., American Horrors: Essays on the Modern American Horror Film, in SFRA Newsletter 157 (April 1988).
• Larry McCaffery and Sinda Gregory, eds., Alive and Writing: Interviews with American Authors of the 1980s, in IAFA Newsletter (Fall 1988).
• Brian McHale's Postmodernist Fiction, in SFRA Newsletter 154 (January 1988).
• V. Vale and Andrea Juno, eds., Incredibly Strange Films, in Fantasy Review 10:6 (July/August 1987).
• Vivian Sobchack's Screening Space: The American Science Fiction Film, in Fantasy Review 10:4 (May 1987).

Fiction (selected):

• Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, in Dead Reckonings 2 (forthcoming).
• J.G. Ballard, Kingdom Come, in Dead Reckonings 1 (Spring 2007).</