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Science fiction loves strangeness. It relishes oddities, even when it piles on fear and dystopian loathing. The technical term for a fascination with the strange and alien is xenophilia, just as the term for a terror of the strange is xenophobia. At its core, then, science fiction is...Xeno Fiction. So science fiction seeks out the strange, roams far from home in space and time, looks with avid eagerness upon the ways of the Others, human or a...

Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature is one of the world's leading journals of science fiction. Warriors of the Tao includes 16 essays from this landmark (but little-known) review, distilling its witty and sometimes controversial dialogue about fantastic writing during the last third of a century, including such topics as: the NON-sf writing of Philip K. Dick, sex with an intelligent ape, Cordwainer Smith's astonishing instrumen...

Fantastika are those abundant modes of telling the world that open out beyond myth, legend, prophecy and tales of horror. Science fiction can be seen as the natural voice of a persistent Apollonian pressure to reshape the unruly into spandex. Yet Dionysian fuming and glee will burst into this rationalized sf world. Suppressed elements of our human experience seethe up as horror tales and fantasies that expose the lure and fear of cruelty, of d...