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amed “one of the twenty-five most distinguished reference titles published during the past twenty-five years” by Reference Quarterly, the Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC) series provides readers with critical commentary and general information on more than 2,000 authors now living or who died after December 31, 1999. Volumes published from 1973 through 1999 include authors who died after December 31, 1959. Previous to the publication of the first volume of CLC in 1973, there was no ongoing digest monitoring scholarly and popular sources of critical opinion and explication of modern literature. CLC, therefore, has fulfilled an essential need, particularly since the complexity and variety of contemporary literature makes the function of criticism especially important to today’s reader.

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    Resource Links. Reproduced by permission.—Review of Contemporary Fiction, v. 14, spring, 1994; v. 23, spring, 2003. Copyright © 1994, 2003 by the Review of Contemporary Fiction. Both reproduced by permission.—Science-Fiction Studies, v. 20, July, 1993; 21, July, 1994; v. 22, March, 1995; v. 25, November, 1998 Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998 by Science-Fiction Studies. All reproduced by permission.—Sight and Sound, v. 5, July, 1995. Copyright © 1995, by Sight and Sound. Reproduced by permission.—Sojourners, v. 32, March-April, 2003. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission from Sojourners. (800) 714-7474, www.sojo.net.—South Atlantic Quarterly, v. 92, fall, 1993. Copyright © 1993, by Duke University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—The Spectator, v. 288, May 18, 2002. Copyright © 2002 by The Spectator. Reproduced by permission of The Spectator.—Times Literary Supplement, May 27, 1994; November 22, 1996; July 19, 2002 Copyright © 1994, 1996, 2002 by Times Literary Supplements Limited. All reproduced from the Times Literary Supplement by permission.—University of Toronto Quarterly, v. 62, September, 1992;

    v. 62, Winter, 1992/93. Copyright © 1992 by the University of Toronto Press. Both reproduced by permission of University of Toronto Press Incorporated.—Washington Post Book World, v. 26, October 27, 1996. Copyright © 1996, Washington Post Book World Service/Washington Post Writers Group. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Wired, v. 11, February 2003. Copyright © 2003, by Conde Nast Publications. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Women’s Review of Books, v. 15, April, 1998 for “Archetypes of Exile” by Suzanne Ruta. Reproduced by permission of author.— World Literature Today, v. 71, spring, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by the University of Oklahoma Press. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.

    COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN CLC, VOLUME 192, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

    Alkon, Paul. From Fiction 2000: Cyberpunk and the Future of Narrative. Edited by George Slusser and Tom Shippey. University of Georgia Press. 1992. Copyright © 1992, by the University of Georgia Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Brydon, Diana. From “Reading Dionne Brand’s ‘Blues Spiritual for Mammy Prater,’” in Inside the Poem: Essays and Poems in Honour of Donald Stephens. Edited by W. H. New. Oxford University Press, 1992. Copyright © Oxford University Press Canada 1992. Reproduced by permission.—Daurio, Beverley. From The Power to Bend Spoons: Interviews with Canadian Novelists. The Mercury Press, 1998. Copyright © 1998 Beverley Daurio. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Gibson, William, with Larry McCaffery. From Across the Wounded Galaxies: Interviews with Contemporary American Science Fiction Writers. University of Illinois Press. 1990. Copyright © 1990, by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Reproduced by permission.—Hayles, N. Katherine. From Immortal Engines: Life Extension and Immortality in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Edited by George Slusser, Gary Westfahl, and Eric S. Rabkin. University of Georgia Press. 1996. Copyright © 1996, by the University of Georgia Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Tanner, Tony. From Thomas Pynchon. Methuen, 1982. Copyright © 1982, by Tony Tanner. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and author.

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    Brand, Dionne, photograph by Neil Graham. Reproduced by permission.—Martel, Yann, photograph by Alastari Grant. AP/ Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.

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