It is no coincidence that the post-modern era is the era of the “happening.” The happening just happens—without past or future, without precedent or structure, without plan or rule ...

Larry McCaffery, in his collection of interviews with SF writers, also reviewed in this issue, argues that SF has become the pre-eminent literary genre of the postmodern era, since it alone has the ...

and generation in advanced capitalist countries in which postmodern cultural conditions make tracing these pattems difficult with conventional approaches.