Science fiction and conflict, Philip John Davies; where no man has gone before - sexual politics and science fiction, Jacqueline Pearson; yellow, black or tentacled - the race question in American science fiction, Edward James; the personal versus the political in Utopian SF, Anthony Easthope; Kozmick Kommie Konflicts - Stanislaw Lem's Solaris - an East Bloc parable, Carl Tighe; science, transformation and the individual in the work of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Chris Pike; violent revolution in American science fiction, Edward James; science fiction and the Vietnam War, Alasdair Spark; nuclear war fiction for young readers, Paul Brians; eternally safe for democracy - the ultimate weapon of American science fiction, H.Bruce Franklin; normative fiction, Martha Bartter.