Science Fiction for Young Readers

C. W. SULLIVAN III is Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies in English at East Carolina University. An authority on medieval Welsh literature, mythology, folklore, and fantasy, his publications include Welsh Celtic Myth in Modern Fantasy (Greenwood Press, 1989). He is Editor of The Children's Folklore Review and current President of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts.

The Shapers of Science Fiction for Young Readers The Tom Swift Books by Francis J. Molson Heinlein's Juveniles: Growing Up in Outer Space by C. W. Sullivan III The Formulaic and Rites of Passage in Andre Norton's Magic Series by Roger C. Schlobin Asimov: Man Thinking by Elizabeth Anne Hull The Terrible Journey past Dragons in the Water to House like Lotus: Faces of Love in the Fiction of Madeleine L'Engle by M. Sarah Smedman Specific Authors and Their Works The Things of a Child: Coming Full-Circle With Alan E. Nourse's Raiders From the Rings by Howard V. Hendrix Masters, Slaves, and Rebels: Dystopia as Defined and Defied by John Christopher by K.V. Bailey Danger Quotient, Fiskadoro, Riddley Walker, and the Failure of the Campbellian Monomyth by Millicent Lenz Growing Home: The Triumph of Youth in the Novels of H.M. Hoover by Thom Dunn and Karl Hiller The British Science Fiction of Louise Lawrence by Marilyn Fain Apseloff The Debate Continues: Technology or Nature--A Study of Monica Hughes' SF Novels by J.R. Wytenbroek Myth in Action: The Trials and Transformation of Menolly by Patricia Harkins SF as Vehicle for Ideas True Myth: Female Archetypes in Monica Hughes' The Keeper of the Isis Light by Raymond E. Jones Neo-Gnostic Elements in Louise Lawrence's Moonwind by Judith N. Mitchell Captain Kirk and Dr. Who: Meliorist and Spenglarian World Views in Fiction for Young Adults by Joseph O. Milner Raymond Briggs' When the Wind Blows: Toward an Ecology of the Mind for Young Readers by Millicent Lenz Selected Bibliography of Criticism Index About the Editor and Contributors