Index

ABBOT ZERCHI 24, 79 Abel-Musgrove, Kurt

Der Bazillenkrei g 25n Abish, Walter How German Is It? 200 Acker, Kathy Empire o[ the Senseless 215 ADAMS, NICK 124-7 Alamargordo 88,89,92,109 Aldiss, Brian Heliconia Trilogy 27-8 Alexander the Great 47 Alkon, Paul 1, 13n, Origins o[ Future

Fiction 25n ALLDERA 210-11 Allott, Miriam (ed.) The Poems o[

Matthew Arnold 13n Amen, Carol 'The Last Testament' 116n America 6,9; to China 17;

Malthus on 18; Trosky to 9 Amistad 171 Amis, Martin Time's Arrow 211 Ancient of Days 45 Anderson, Paul Tau Zero 32,51-2, 60n;

Trader to the Stars 43n Anglo-American Magazine 168 Ant, Adam 185 Antichrist 48,51,56,57,58 Anticipation or the Voyage o[ an American

to England in the Year 1980 25n Antiochus Epiphanes 47 Apocalypse 7,9, 187; Apocalypses 38,

43n; Four Horsemen of, 53-4 Apocalypse, The Dragon of the, 12n;

Apocalypse, Mirrors 9 Aquarius 27 Arab States 57 Armageddon 38, 47, 50, 51,

104, 118, 205 Arnason, Eleanor Ruins o[ Swords 209;

The Warlords o[ Saturn's Moons 222 Arnold, Jack and Matheson, Richard

The Incredible Shrinking Man 118, 119,127

Arnold, Matthew 5-6 Asimov, Isaac The Gods Themselves 44n

ATAHUALPA 223 Atlas, Children of 29,42n Atomic:

Age 90 Bomb 55

Attaway, William Blood on the Forge 173n

St. Augustine Concerning the City o[ God Against the Pagans 16, 24n, 48;

'Letter to Hesychius' 48 Auschwitz 53,211 AZMOBAANA 161-2

BabyIon: Fall of 27; Astrology 40

Bacon, Francis 16 Balfour Declaration 55 Ball, John 67 Ballard, J. G. 'The Terminal Beach' 3; 8,

14n; The Atrocity Exhibition 136; Crash 136-150, 228n

Baraka, Imani Amin see LeRoi Jones Barr, Marleen vi, vii 199-214 Bartter, Martha A. 6, The Way to

Ground Zero: The Atomie Bomb in American Seienee Fietion 60n

Bartorstown 28 Batchelor, John Calvin The Birth o[ the

People's Republic o[ Antarica 79 Baudrillard 'Ballard' s Crash' 136,

218-19,221-3; The Ecstasy o[ Communieation 219

Baxter, Stephen Ring 32, 36; Timelike In[inity 35; The Time Ships 38

Bear, Greg Bloodmusic 34 Beasts, The 47, 57 Beatus of Liebana Commentary on the

Apoealypse 47 BEK, EYKAR 211 BELIAL 23 BELGRAVE, BERNARD 170 Bellamy, Edward Looking Backwards

2000-1887 216

230

Index 231

Bell, Madison Smart Waiting for the End ofthe World 9-11

BENSINGTON 67 Benford, Gregory 32, 39, In the Oceans

of the Night 44n; Across the Sea of Suns 44n

Benson, Msg. Robert Hugh The Lord of the World 20, 50; The Dawn of All 60n

Bennett, HaI Lord of Dark Places 175 Beowulf 155 Bergman, Ignmar The Se·uenth Seal 84 Betzer, Dan Beast: A Novel of the Future

World Dictator 61n Bible 1

Genesis 9,52,78,21: 15-20 156; Ecclesiastes 1 :6. 5; Daniel 45, 46,69; 2:34 45; 2:44 46; 7:846; 9:26 47; Exodus 208; Isaiah 11:652; Peter 3:1056; Old Testament 9 Revelation 10,188; 6:8 9; 21:2 37, 43n, 62; 6:13 45; 2:1 50; Samuel 1:1747

Bidwell, Sheldon World War Three 13n Big Bang 27,41,45 BIGGER, MARY AND THOMAS 174-5 Bikini Atoll 92 BLACKMAN, CAPTAIN

ABRAHAM 176 BLAKE, HENRY 169-70 Black Death 75,86 Black Holes 41 Bleiler, E. F. Science Fiction:

The Early Years 50 Blish, James 33,34, Black Easter 38,

50; The Day After Judgment 38, 50 They Shall Have Stars 43n; The Triumph of Time or The Clash of Cymbals 43n, 51, 60n

Boccaccio 86; Decameron 86 Bontemps, Arna Drums at Dusk 171;

Black Thunder: Gabriel's Revolt: Virginia: 1800 172

BOND, JAMES 8 Bowie, David 184 Boyer, Paul When Time Shall Be No More:

Propheey Belief in Modern American Culture 49, 59n, 60n

Brackett, Leigh The Long Tomorrow 23

Bradbury, Malcolm Doetor Criminale 213n

Brautigan, Richard In Watermelon Sugar 215

Brent Linda see Harriet Jacobs Bretonne, Restif de La L'An 2000,

ou la regeneration 25n British National Corpus 153 Brians, Paul 4, Nuclear Holocaust: Atomie

War Fiction 13,60n Brookes, Samuell. see George Schuyler Brown, John 170 Brown, William Wells Clotel 168 Budry, Algis Some Will Not Die 34 Bull, Malcolm 13n Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 4

Burdick, Eugene and Wheeler, Harvey Fail-Safe 110

Burgess, Anthony The End of the World News: An Entertainment 8; 14n.

Burrows, John 35 Burrows, William 12 Butler, Octavia E. Pattern master 177;

Mind of my Mind 177 Byron 18,20

CAERUE 196 Cain, George Blueschild Baby 175 CADDLES 67 CAL 182, 184, 186, 189-90, 191, 196 Caldicott, Helen Missile Envy 112, 117n Camp bell, Thomas

'The Last Man' 18-19 Camus 143 Capek, Karel R.U.R. 171 Carlyle, Thomas 13n Carter, Frederick The Dragon of the

Apocalypse 12n Carter, Angela Heroes and Villa ins 185 CAREY, ROBERT SCOTT 128-33 CASSE, RUSSELL 205 CASSI 210 Catastrophes 34 CATERHAM 67 Chang, Mona 203 Charnas, Suzy McKee Walk to the End of

the World 7, 179n; Motherlines 7, 179n; The Furies 179n, 210-11

Chester Mystery Cycle 'Noyes Fludd' 78

232 Index

Chesnutt, Charles The Marrow of Tradition 175

Chesterton, G. K. 37, 'The Ballad of the White Horse' 37; 'The Actor and the Alibi' 164

China 57, 92; to America 17 Christopher, John The Death of Grass 35 Christos 47 Clarke, Arthur C. 84, Childhood's

End 34, 36; 'The Star' 84; 'The Nine Billion Names For God' 59n; Prelude to Space 43n; 3001: The Final Odyssey 216-17

Clarke, LF. v, vii, , 13n, 15-26 Clarke, Stephen RL. v, vii, 5, 27-44;

How to Live Forever 44n Clarkson, Helen The Last Day 3; 13n Cleaver, Eldridge 169 Clements, Hai Cycle of Fire 28 Clute, J. 'Survivalist Fiction' 53, 60n;

Look at the Evidence 225-6 Clute, J. and Nicholls, P. (eds.) The

Encyclopedia of Science Fiction 60n Clute, J., Pringle, D. and Ounsley, S.

'Introduction' to Interzone: The 2nd Anthology 215

Cohn, Norman 49, The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and the Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages 59n

Cold War 6 Constantine, Storm 7, Wraeththu 181-97;

Hermtech 195; The Monstrous Regiment 195

Conventional Armed Forces 1990, Treaty on, 213

Coomaswamy, Amanda K. 24n Cooper, Ken 'The Whiteness of the

Bomb' 89 Cooper, Susan Silver on the Tree 37 Coppola, Francis Ford Apocalypse Now 8 Corliss, Richard 'The Invasion

Has Begun' 204 Cosmic:

Conflagration, Fire of 15 Fatalism 6

COSSAR 67 COULTER, LEN AND ESAU 23 Cousin de Granville, Jean-Baptiste

Francois-Xavier Le Dernier Homme

(trans.) The Last Man; or Omegarus and Syderia. A Romance in Futility 1, 17, 25n

Creuze de Lesser, Auguste Fran<;ois, Baron Le Dernier Homme, poem imite de Grainville 25n

Crichton, Michael Andromeda Strain 110 Crossley, Robert v, vii, 10, 75-87 Crombie, Winifred Discourse and

Language Learning: a Relational Approach to Syllabus Design 165n; Process and Relation in Discourse and Language Learning 165n;

Crowley, John Engine Summer 35, 41-2, 44n; Aegypt 43n; Little Big 432n; Love and Sleep 43n

Csicsery-Ronary Jr., Istvan 'The SF of Theory: Baudrillard and Haraway' 218

Dalton, Moray The Black Death. Sampson Low 25n

Darby, John 54 Darley, George 18,18 Daniel, Book of see Bible Davis, Nick v, vii, 136-50 Day After 23 Day Zero 22, 23 Dechend, Herbert Von see

Giorgio di Santillana DeHaan, M. R The Days ofNoah 61n Delany, Martin, R Blake; or the Huts of

America; a Tale of the Mississippi Valley, the Southern United States, and Cuba 168

Delany, Samuel R Neveryou 177 Dellamora, Richard Postmodern

Apocalypse 12 Depression, the 55 Derrida, Jacques 'No Apocalypse,

Not Now' 12 Desmond, Shaw Ragnarok 25n Destruction 6 see Post Nuclear Dick, Philip K. and Zelazny, Roger

Deus Irae 50 Dickson, Gordon 38, The Final

Encyclopedia 38, 43n; Chantry Guild 38, 43n

DOMINATRIX 195 Donne, John 119

Index 233

Doomsday 11 Douglass, Frederick 'What To The

Slave is the Fourth of July?' 166; Narrative 171; The Heroie Slave 171

Dove, Rita 'David Walker' 167 Dowling, David Fictions of Nuclear

Disaster 60n Dunbar, Paul Laurence 'The Colored

Soldier' 172

Easterman, Daniel The Number of the Beast 51

Eco, Umberto 184 ELDREN 151, 158-9, 160 ELHMEN 192 Eliot, T. S. 'The Hollow Men' 3 Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man 6; 13n,

175; 'Mister Toussan' 172 ELOI 62,208 Endtime 53-4 Enlightenment 16 Enola Gay 90-1 Emmerich, Roland Independance Day

202-13 Emerson, Ralph Waldo 133,

'Self Reliance' 120; 'Nature' 122-3 ENNISCORTHY SWEENY 43N Enzensberger, Hans Magnus 7,14n Epic of Gilgamesh, The 45 Erikson, Kai A New Species ofTrouble:

Explorations in Disaster, Trauma and Community 199,213

EREKOSE 151,155,158-9,160,162,164 Equiano, Olaudah The Interesting

Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Hirnself 171

Evans, Caroline and Gamman, Lorraine 'The Gaze Revisited, Or Reviewing Queer Viewing' 193

EVESHAM 66

Fabian Society 63 Farren, Mike The Arrmageddon Crazy 50 FELSENBURGH 20-1,51 Fergusson, David 'Eschatology' 48-9,

59n Fiedler, Leslie Waiting for the End 2 Findlay, Timothy Not Wanted

On Voyage 78, 84

Flammarion, Camille La Fin du Monde 20

DR. FLINT 171 Forbidden Planet (film) 223 Forrest, Leon The Bloodworth

Orphans 176 Foucault, Michael Discipline and

Punishment: The Birth of the Prisons 198n; Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 198n

Frank, Pat Alas, Babyion 108 Freud, Sigmund 8, 136-7,

Totem to Taboo 140 Friedan, Betty The Female

Mystique 199,202 Frith, Simon 'Only Dancing: David

Bowie Flirts with the Issues' 184

GABRIELLE 146-8 Gagne, Elise Omegar ou le dernier hornrne,

pro se-poesie dramatique de la fin des temps en douze chants 25n

Gaines, Ernest The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman 173

Galileo 39 Gammon, Lorraine and Makinen, Merja

Female Fetishism: A New Look 198n also see Caroline Evans

Gannon, Charles E. v, vii, 103-17 Garvey, Marcus 'The Future as

I See It' 167 Gelaming Tribe 182 Gennadius of Marseilles 48 Gershon, Karen 'Experiments

with God' 76 George, Peter Dr. Strange/ove Or, How

I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 13n

Gibbon, Lewis Grassic see J. Leslie Mitchell

Gibson, William Neuromancer 226n Godzilla 11 0 Gog 48 Goldblum, Jeff 205 Goldhagen, Daniel J. Hitler's Willing

Executioners 200-1 Goth 184-7,192 Gough, Val vi, viii, 7, 181-98 Götterdämmerung 15

234 Index

Graham, Peter Anderson The Collapse of Homo-Sapiens 25n

MRS. GRALES 80 Gramsci 164 GRAVE DIGGER JONES 176 Great Whore of BabyIon 48 Griggs, Sutton Imperium

in Imperio 170, 177 GROTESCHELE 112-13 Groves, General Leslie R. 88 Grosz, Elizabeth 'Voyeurism /

Exhibitionism / the Gaze' 198n

Hackett, Sir John The Third World War: A Future History (IV. documentary) 4; The Third World War: The Untold Story (IV. documentary) 4; 13n

Hagar 154, 156-8 Haldane, J. B. S. Possible Worlds 43n Haley, Alex Roots 169; Roots 77 169;

Roots: The Next Generation 169 Hamilton, Cicely Theodore Savage 25n Hamilton, Edmond Oay of Wrath 50 Hamilton, Peter Mindstar Rising 36 Hand, Elizabeth Glimmerings 58 HAR 182,188 Haraway, Donna 218 Hargreaves, Roger Mr. Nosey 159 HartweIl, David Age of Wonders:

Exploring the World of Seienee Fiction 228n

Harvey, J acqueline 1. ' A Sting in the Tale: An Examination of the Features of Surprise Ending Narratives' 152

Hayden, Robert 'Middle Passage' 169 Hebdige, Dick Subeulture: The Meaning

of Style 184, 187 HEDON 66 HeinIein, Robert A. Waldo 43n; Job:

A Comedy of Justiee 50; 'Blowups Happen' 114; Farnham's Freehold 134; Starship Troopers 216

Hemingway 'Big Two-Hearted River' 124-7

Herbert, Edward Oe Veritate 44n Hersey, John Into the Valley 92, 102n;

Hiroshima 96-9, 102n Hesiod Work and Oays 29

Hili, Christopher 49, Antichrist in the Seventeenth-Century England 59n; The English Bible and the Seventeenth­Century Revolution 59n

HILLER, CAPTAIN STEVE 205 Hirnes, Chester For Love of Imabelle 176;

Blind Man with a Pistol 176; Plan B 176

Hitler 56, 213 Hiroshima 4,19,22,88,89,92,

93,95,100,205 Hoban, Russell Riddley Walker 24,

35, 187 Hoey, Michael v, viii, 151-65;

Signalling in Oiseourse 165n; On The Surfaee of Oiscourse 165n; 'Overlapping patterns of discourse organization and their implications for dause relationship analysis in problem-solution texts' 165n

Hollinger, Veronica vi, viii, 3, 215-29, 'Specular SF: Postmodern Allegory' 215

Holocaust 6, 7, 53, 86, 188204,211; Nudear 56,57

Hood, Thomas 'The Last Man' 3, 18 Hughes, David Y. (ed.) Early Writings in

Seienee Fietion and Seienee Fietion by H. G. Wells 13n

Huxley, Aldous Ape and Essenee 23 HWARHATH 209 Hyperspace 38,40, 44n

IOLINDA 161 Israel 57

Jacobs, Harriet and Brent, Linda Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 171

James, Edward v, viii, 45-61 James, Henry 68 Jameson, Frederick Postmodernism, or,

The Cultural Logie ofCapitall91; 'Progress Versus Utopia, or, Can We Imagine the Future' 220

Jarre, Alfred 191 Jaws (film) 201 JEFFSON, ADAM 20 Jeffcrson, Thomas 168 Jehovah's Witnesses 54

Index 235

Jen, Gish Mona In The Promised Land 203 Jenner, Edward Inquiry in to the Cause

and Effeet of the Variolae Vaecinae: known by the name of the Cow Pax 17

Jersusalem 9,37; Old Jerusalem 57 Joachim of Fiore 49 St. John of Patamos 45-6,51,55, 59n Jordan, Michael 'Short texts to explain

problem-solution structures and vice versa' 165n

Jewish Apocrypha 46 Jones, LeRoi also known as Amirir

Baraka 'State-meant' 167; The System ofDante's Hell 175; Slaveship: A Historieal Pageant 171

JOHNSON, COFFIN ED 176 JOHNSON, LUTIE 175 BROTHER JUNIPER 95, 97 Jungk, Robert Children of the Ashes 101;

Brighter than a Thousand Suns 101n

KAKKAHAAR 182 KAMAGRIANS 196 KATE 196 Kavan, Anna Ice 215 Kennedy, J. F. K. 143 KENT, CLARK 207 Kermode, Frank 2-5, 11, 12, The Sense

of an Ending 2-3; 4-5, 13n, 14n Kessel, Jacob Good News From Outer

Spaee 58,223; Invaders 223 Ketterer, David 4-5, New Worlds for

Old: The Apoealyptic Imagination in Seienee Fietion and Ameriean Literature 13n; Imprisoned in a Tesseraet: The Life and Work of fames Blish 60n

KING LEAR 75 KING RIGENOS 160-2 King, Martin Luther 6, 13n King, Rodney 177 King, Stephen The Stand 51 Kipling, Rudyard 29 FATHER KLEINSORGE 94, 101 Kolowski, Jacob Crash Injuries: The

Integrated Medical Aspects of Automobile Injuries and Deaths 147

Kornbluth and Pohl Wolfbane 44n Kramer (dir.: film) On The Beach 127

Kubrick, Stanley (dir.) Dr Strangelove 111, 115, 117n, 152

Kumar, Krishan 7,14n Kunte Kinte 169

Lacan, Jacques 182 Laing, Dave One Chord Wonder: Power

and Meaning in Punk Rock 185 Last Days 21,22,23 Last Judgment 16, 50 Last Things 18 LARKIN 10 Laurence, William L. 88,100, Dawn

Over Zero 90,92, 101n, 102n; Men and Atoms 92, 101n; The Hell

Bomb 92, 102n; 'The Atomic Age Begins' 95; 'My Life in Atomland' 101n

Lawrence, D. H. 1; Apocalypse 1-2 LEADFORD, WILLIE 68-70 Lee, A.Robert vi, viii, 6, 166-80 Le Guin, Ursula Always Coming

Home 35,118-19 Le May, General Curtis 114 Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr

Von, 16 Lern, Stanislaw His Master's Voice Lessing, Doris Shikasta 43n, Memoires

of a Survivor 185 LEVINSON, DAVID AND

JULIUS 206-7 Lewis, C. S. The Last Battle 42 Life 91, 88, 95 Lindsey, HaI The Late Great

Planet Earth 11, 56 LINGRI 208 LORD RAYMOND 20 Lucien of Samosata 45

MacArthur 101 MacDonald, Dwight 97 MacIntyre, Vondra Superluminal 43n M.A.D. (Mutually Assured

Destruction) 103, 110 MADMAX 106 Mahabharata 15 Magog 48 Malcolm X 169 Malthus, T. R. 17-18

236 Index

Manhattan Project 88,89,90 Mannix, Patrick The Rhetoric of

Antinuclear Fiction: Persuasive Strategies in Novels and Films 104-5, 116n, 111-12, 117n

Mansfield, Jayne 143 Matheson, Richard The Incredible

Shrinking Man 128, 135n Marcus, J. S. The Captain's Fire 200 MARCUS KARENIN 72 Martin, John The Last Man (painting) 19 Martians 43,64,67 Marx, Robert Pirate Port: The Story of the

Sunken City of Port Royal 87n McCullough, David Truman 90, 10ln McGinn, Bernard Antichrist:

Two Thousand Years of the Human Fascination with Evil 59n

McKay, Claude Home to Harlem 174; The Marrow ofTradition 175

McNeill, William H. Plagues and People 75

Meek, Ronald L. Turgot on Progress, Sociology and Economics 25n

Melville, Herman 'Benito Cereno' 172 Mengele, Dr. 209 Mercier,Sebastien 16-17 Mexico 18 Meyer, Nicholas 105, The Day After

(dir. film) 104-6 Michelangelo 16 Michelet, Jules Histoire du XIXe siecle

jusqu'a Waterloo 18,25n Miles, also known as Stephen Southwold

The Gas War of 1940 25n Millenarianism 7 Miller, J. Hillis 12 Miller, Walter A Canticle for

Leibowitz 23, 26n, 35, 79, 108, 190 Miller Jr., Walter M. (ed)

Beyond Armageddon: Survivors of the Megawar 50

Miller, William 54 Mitchell, Leslie J. Gay Hunter 50 Mitchell, Magaret Gone With

The Wind 173 Mitchison, Naomi Memoirs of a

Spacewoman 42n Modernists 1

Moi, Tori Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory 198n

More, Thomas Utopia 216 Morgan-Witts, Max and Thomas,

Gordon Ruin from the Air: The Atomic Mission to Hiroshima 91, 101

Mormon 45 Moorcock, Michael The Eternal

Champion 151-65 Moore, Catherine L. 'Vintage Season' 53 Moore, Donald L. Mirrors of

Apocalypse 9 Moore,Suzanne 194 MORLOCK 62, 208 Morrison, Toni Beloved 168,177 Morrow, James Blameless in Abaddan or

Bible Stories for Adults 50; Only Begotten Daughter 50; This is the Way the Earth Ends 50; Towing Jehovah 50

Nadel, Alan Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism and the Atomic Age 97, 102n

Nagasaki 22,88,91,92,101,205 Naked Singularities 41 Nationalism 23 Naylor, Gloria The Women of

Brewster Place 175 Nazis 124, 199-213, 212 Negro Revolution 6 Nemesis 39 Newcomb, Simon 'The End of the

World' 2 New Yorker 92 New York Times 88, 200 Nichols, P. and Clute, J. The Encyclopedia

of Science Fiction 60n Niven, Larry and Pournelle, Jerry

Lucifer's Hammer 35; The Mote in God's Eye 37, 42, 44n

MR. NOSEY 159 NOAH 50, 52, 107; God of 78 Noorbeergen, Rene Invitation 10 a

Holocaust 11 Norris, Christopher 12, 14n Nostrodamus 11 Nowlan, Philip Francis Armageddon

2419AD 50

Index 237

Noyes, Alfred 22, The Last Man 25n Noyes Fludd 78 Nuclear:

Bomb 10; Holocaust 8

O'Donnell, Laurence see Catherine 1. Moore

Oilar, Forrest Loman Be Thou Prepared for lesus is Coming 55

O'Leary, Stephen Arguing the Apoealypse: A Theory of Millenium Rhetorie 61n

O'Meara, John 24n O'Neill, Joseph The Day of Wrath 50 Operation Olympic 110, 116n Oort Cloud 39 Orwell, George Nineteen

Eighty-Four 40, 44n Ouseley, Thomas 18

Palmer, Susan AIDS as an Apocalyptie Metaphor in North Ameriea 87n

Palestine 55 Paraquay 18 Parringer, Patrick v, viii, 2, 62-74 Pascal 132-3 Pax Americana 92 PIEDMONT, BELMONT 170 PELL 183, 184, 186, 188, 191, 196 Petry, Ann The Street 175 Pharr, Robert Deane S.KO. 175 Philmus, Robert (ed.) Early Writings in

Seienee F ietion and Seienee F ietion of H. G.Wells 13n

Pizzaro 223 Plieads 29 Plato 30,39,45 Plutonium 10 Plymouth Brethern 54 Polaris 53 Poe, Edgar Allan 'Conversations of

Eiros and Charmian' 20 Pohl, Frederick 32, 33; The Annals of

Heeehee 43n Pohl, Frederick and Kornbluth

WoIfbane 44n Pohl, Frederick and Williamson J.

The Reefs of Spaee 43n POPE SYLVESTER 20-1,51 Port Royale Jamacia 86

Pre-Copernican 45 Propheeies ofSt. Malaehy, the 50-1 Professeur X La Guerre Mierobienne 25n Propp, Vladimir The Morphology of the

Folktale 155 Prosser, Gabriel 172 Puranas 15 Purple Death 21

Ragnarök 15 Reagan, Ronald 138-9 REDWOOD 67 Reed, Ismael Flight to Canada 177;

The Free-Lance Pallbearers 177 Reich, June 1. 'Genderfuck: The Law of

the Dildo' 192 Remington, Helen 145 Revelations see Bible Reeves, Majorie The Influenee of Propheey

in the Late Middle Ages 49 Rickover, Admiral 114 Robinson, Kim Stanley Blue Mars 58;

Paeifie Edge 58 Roboeop 203 Roessner, Michael

Vanishing Point 211-12 Rohan, Michael Scott The Winter of the

World 37 Roosevelt, 88 Roshwald, Mordechai Level 7 5,23,

26n,52 Roswell 207 Ruh, A.K. Guirlanden um die Urnen der

Zukunft 25n Rushkoff, Douglas ehildren of Chaos:

Survivng the End of the World as we Know it 6

Russia 57

Sabarhagen 44n Sanders, D. lohn Hersey 96, 102n Santillana, Giorgio de and von

Dechend, Hamlet's Mill 31,40, 43n SASAKI, MISS 96-8 Satan 47-8 Schenk, Hilbert A Rose

for Armageddon 50 Schieck, William J. 'The Binuclear Voice

of Hersey Hiroshima' 99,102n

238 Index

Schuyler, George Blaek No More 173-4, 177; Blaek Empire 177

Schwenger, Peter 12 Scott, Melissa Five Twelfths oj

Heaven 43n SEAGROVE 146 Second Coming 64 Seed, David v, vii, 1, 88-102,

'Recycling the Texts of the Culture: Walter M. Miller's A Canticle jor Leibowitz, Extrapolation 37' 87n

SEEL 182, 185 Serviss, Gareth P. The Second Deluge 50 SETHE SUGGS 177 Seventh Day Adventists 54 Shanks, Edward The People oj the Ruin 21 Sheckley, Robert 'The Life of

Anybody' 219 Shell, Ray Iced 175 Shelley, Mary 5, Last Man: By the Author

oj Frankenstein, The 18; 19, 86, 85; Frankenstein 67

Shelley, P. B. 20 Shiel, M. P. The Purple Cloud 20 Shlovsky, Victor Theory of Prose 12 Shute, Neville On the Beach 3 Sibson, Francis, H. Unthinkable 25n Siemes, John A. 'Hiroshima: Eye

Witness' 93-4,100, 102n Silverberg, Robert 'In Another

Country' 53, 61n; When We Went to See the End of the World 9, 14

Simmons, Herbert A. Corner Boy 175 Sinclair, John McH. 'Planes of

Discourse' 165 SINMAN 175 Sissons, Michael (ed.) Asleep in

Armageddon 50; Small Armageddon, ASO

SKINNER, MR. AND MRS 67 Slusser, George v, ix, 118-35 Slonczewski, Joan Daughters oj

Elysium 210,212 BERT SMALLWAYS 70 Smetak, Jacquelin 'Sex and Death in

Nuclear Holocaust Literature of the 1950's' 111,117n

Smith, E. E. Lensman 43n Smith, Captain John 168

Smith, Joseph Fielding Doetrines of Salvation 59n

Sobchack, Vivian 'The Violent Dance: A Personal Memoir of Death in the Movies' 106, 116n

Socialism 67 Soddy, Frederick The Interpretation oj

Radium 64, 73n Somme 86 Sontag, Susan 'The Imagination of

Disaster' 8, 14n, 106, 116n, 201-2 Soumet, Alexander La Divine tpopee 25n Southwold, Stephen The Seventh Bowl 50 Sprague De Camp, L. Lest Darkness

Falls 229n Spengler, Oswald 33, 34 Spinrad, Norman 'The Big Flash' 53 Stableford, Brian 3, 13n; 'Man-Made

Catastrophes in SF' 60n Stanley, John World War Three 13n Stapledon, Olaf Star Maker 28,31,42,

82-3, 87n; Last and First Man 31, 44n, 81-2

Star Trek 221 Star Wars 220 Stead, W. T. 'The Latest Apocalypse of

the End of the World' 62 Steinbeck, John The Grapes ofWrath 5 Stewart, George R. Earth Abides 5-6,

13n,34 Streiber, Whitley and Kunetha,

James War Day: And the Journey Onwards 116n

Stimson 88 Strangelove Or How I learned to Stop

Worrying and Love the Bomb, Dr. 7,15

Stoker, Bram Jewel oj Seven Stars, The 1-2,13n

Styron, William Conjessions oj Nat Turner 171

Sukenick, Ronald The Death oj the Nouel 3

Survivalism 118, 113 Fiction 53n, 60

Suvin, Darko Metamorphoses oj Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History oj a Literary Genre 228n

Swetman, Rev. William 76, 86n

Index 239

Swift, J. 45, 191, 193 Swinburne 43n SYLVESTER, POPE see POPE

SYLVESTER

TANIMOTO 101 Tenn, William 'Generation of Noah' 50 Tepper, S. Gibbon's Decline and Fall 58 THIEDE 194 Thomas, Gordon and Morgan-Witts,

Max Ruin from the Air: The Atopmic Mission to Hiroshima 91, 101n

Thoreau Waiden 119-27,134 Time-travel 9 Tolkein, J. R. R. 37,38; Lord of

The Rings 37 TRAVEN 3,13n Truman Harry S. 89,90, 101n Truth, Sojourner 172 Tubman, Harriet 172 TURGIDSON, GENERAL BUCK 111-12 Turgot, Anne Robert Jacques Baron de

Laulne, 16, 25n Turner, Nat 171 Tyconius 48

U .N.I.A. 167 Uris, Leon Exodus 208 Ussher, Archbishop 51 Utopia 7,45,52,216

Van Vogt, A. E. The Voyage of the Space Beagle 43n

Varley, John Ophiuchi Hotline 35-6 VAUGHAN 142-3,145-9 Verhoeven, Paul (dir) Robo-Cop 203;

Total Recall 203 VERNEY, LIONEL 5, 80, 85 Vesey,Denmark 171 Vietnam 53 Virtual Reality 40,41 Voltaire 76 Vonnegut, Kurt Galapagos 24 Von Neumann probes 38 Völuspa 15

Wager, W. Warren 3, 4, 13n Terminal Visions: The Literature of Last Things 50,72, 74n

Walker, Alice Color Purpie, The 173; Meridian 173; Temple of My Familiar, The 173

WALDO 43n Walker, David Walker's Appeal in Four

Articles: Together with a Preamble, to the Colored Citizens of the World, but in Particular and Very Expressly for Those of the United States 169

Walker, Margaret Jubilee 173 Wallace, Edward 18 Watkins Harper, Frances Ellen Iola Leroy Washingto, Booker T. Up from

Slavery 171 Weart, Spencer Nuclear Fear: A History

of Images 95, 102n, 114 Weber, David The Armageddon

Inheritance 50 Weekly Anglo-African 168 Wells, H. G. 2;

All Aboard for Ararat 50; Anticipations 62; 'Dream of Armageddon, A: 66; Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth, The 63, 65, 67, 73n, 74n; In the Days of the Comet 63,65,68-9, 73n, 74n; Mind at the End of Its Tether 72-3, 74n; 'Modern Utopia, A: 65, 73n; 'On Extinction' 3,4; Star Begotten 33; War in the Air, The 21, 25n, 62, 65-6, 70-1, 73n; Discovery of the Future, The 62, 64; War of the Worlds, The 21, 43n, 62, 62-4, 75, 76, 106, 116n; Time Machine, The 20, 25n, 62,63,64,208,217; 'Vision of Judgement, A: 64; War That Will End All War, The 66; World Set Free, The 21, 25n, 62, 65, 72,73, 74n 107

Wheatley, Phillis 'Goliath of Gath' 170-1 Wheeler, Harvey and Burdick, Eugene

Fail-Safe 110 White, Walter Flight 175 WHITTMAN, GENERAL

ISHMAEL 176 Wilder, Thornton The Bridges of San Luis

Rey 94,96,97,102n Williams, J. Captain Blackman 176; Man

Who Cried I Am, The 176

240 Index

Williamson, J. and Pohl, F. The reefs of Space 43n

Willis, Paul Common Culture 183 Winter, Eugene 'Fundamentals of infor­

mation structure: a pilot manual for further development according to student need' 165

Wolcott, James 'Rebom on the Fourth of July' 213

Wolfe, Evelyn 113 Wolfe, Gary K. 6, 13n Wolfe, Gene Book of the New Sun 36 World War 1 21, 55 Wordsworth, William The Prelude 91 Wormwood 10 Wright, Richard Native Son 174

Wylie, Philip The Smuggled Atomic Bomb 10, 14n

Wyndham, John Chrysalids, The 190

XEELEE 36

Yavenditti, Michael J. 'John Hersey and the American Conscience' 101n

Yeats, W. B. 4; 'Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen' 4

Zelazny, Roger and Dick, Philip K. Deus Irae 50

Zizek, Slavoj Looking Awry: an introduc­tion to /acques Lacan through Popular Culture 140