Gary Westfahl is adjunct professor at the University of La Verne, CA. His previous books include No Cure for the Future (2002), Unearthly Visions (2002), Worlds Enough and Time (2002), Science Fiction, Canonization, Marginalization, and the Academy (2002), Science Fiction, Children's Literature, and Popular Culture (2000), Space and Beyond (2000), and Cosmic Engineers (1996), all available from Greenwood Press.

• Introduction How Charlie Made Children Hate Him: Fantasy and Reality in Stories for Small Children The Three Lives of Superman--and Everybody Else Mystery of the Amateur Detectives: The Early Days of the Hardy Boys Giving Horatio Alger Goosebumps, or, from Hardy Boys to Hapless Boys: The Changing Ethos of Juvenile Series Fiction From the Back of the Head to Beyond the Moon: The Novel and Film This Island Earth Opposing War, Exploiting War: The Troubled Pacifism of Star Trek Even Better than the Real Think: Advertising, Music Videos, Postmodernism, and (Eventually) Science Fiction Legends of the Fall: Going Not Particularly Far Behind the Music Hollywood Strikes a Pose: Seven Tales of Triumph, Treachery, and Travail in Old Tinseltown In Defense of Stone Tablets: Isaac Asimov Explains Why Science Fiction is Skeptical about "New Information Technologies" Partial Derivatives: Popular Misinterpretations of H. G. Well's The Time Machine Bibliography Index

Gary Westfahl is adjunct professor at the University of La Verne, CA. His previous books include No Cure for the Future (2002), Unearthly Visions (2002), Worlds Enough and Time (2002), Science Fiction, Canonization, Marginalization, and the Academy (2002), Science Fiction, Children's Literature, and Popular Culture (2000), Space and Beyond (2000), and Cosmic Engineers (1996), all available from Greenwood Press.

• Introduction How Charlie Made Children Hate Him: Fantasy and Reality in Stories for Small Children The Three Lives of Superman--and Everybody Else Mystery of the Amateur Detectives: The Early Days of the Hardy Boys Giving Horatio Alger Goosebumps, or, from Hardy Boys to Hapless Boys: The Changing Ethos of Juvenile Series Fiction From the Back of the Head to Beyond the Moon: The Novel and Film This Island Earth Opposing War, Exploiting War: The Troubled Pacifism of Star Trek Even Better than the Real Think: Advertising, Music Videos, Postmodernism, and (Eventually) Science Fiction Legends of the Fall: Going Not Particularly Far Behind the Music Hollywood Strikes a Pose: Seven Tales of Triumph, Treachery, and Travail in Old Tinseltown In Defense of Stone Tablets: Isaac Asimov Explains Why Science Fiction is Skeptical about "New Information Technologies" Partial Derivatives: Popular Misinterpretations of H. G. Well's The Time Machine Bibliography Index

Gary Westfahl is adjunct professor at the University of La Verne, CA. His previous books include No Cure for the Future (2002), Unearthly Visions (2002), Worlds Enough and Time (2002), Science Fiction, Canonization, Marginalization, and the Academy (2002), Science Fiction, Children's Literature, and Popular Culture (2000), Space and Beyond (2000), and Cosmic Engineers (1996), all available from Greenwood Press.

• Introduction How Charlie Made Children Hate Him: Fantasy and Reality in Stories for Small Children The Three Lives of Superman--and Everybody Else Mystery of the Amateur Detectives: The Early Days of the Hardy Boys Giving Horatio Alger Goosebumps, or, from Hardy Boys to Hapless Boys: The Changing Ethos of Juvenile Series Fiction From the Back of the Head to Beyond the Moon: The Novel and Film This Island Earth Opposing War, Exploiting War: The Troubled Pacifism of Star Trek Even Better than the Real Think: Advertising, Music Videos, Postmodernism, and (Eventually) Science Fiction Legends of the Fall: Going Not Particularly Far Behind the Music Hollywood Strikes a Pose: Seven Tales of Triumph, Treachery, and Travail in Old Tinseltown In Defense of Stone Tablets: Isaac Asimov Explains Why Science Fiction is Skeptical about "New Information Technologies" Partial Derivatives: Popular Misinterpretations of H. G. Well's The Time Machine Bibliography Index