1966 - 1970

THE WAKE OF THE GODS: MELVILLE’S MYTHOLOGY. Stanford University Press, 1963. xii+240 pages. Second (revised) edition and paperback edition, 1966. Third (revised) edition, 1983.

FUTURE PERFECT: AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION OF THE 19TH CENTURY. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1966. xiii+401 pages. Second (revised) edition, 1968. Paperback edition (Galaxy Books, Oxford University Press), 1968. Expanded and revised edition (hardback and paperback), Oxford University Press, 1978. xiii+404 pages. 4th edition, expanded and revised, Rutgers University Press, 1995. 400 pages.

“Hawthorne and Science Fiction,” The Centennial Review of Arts and Sciences, 10 (Winter 1966), 112-130.

“How We Started Our War against North Vietnam,” Sequoia (Spring 1966), 4-12.

“Fictions of the Future,” Stanford Today (Summer 1966). With subtitle, “The Politics of Literary Prophecy,” as condensation in Current (December 1966). Revised, in THE FUTURIST, 4 (February 1970), 26-28.

Revelations about U.S. Air Force Activities, KGO-TV, February 2, 1966.

“Science Fiction in the Classroom,” California Conference on Instruction and the Curriculum, June 22, 1966.

“A History of Science Fiction,” with Anthony Boucher, Theodore Sturgeon, and A. E. Van Vogt, National Educational Television, Summer, 1966.

1966- : Referee for Yale University Press, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Publications of the Modern Language Association, University of California Press, North-western University Press, American Literature, Duke University Press, American Quarterly, Ramparts Press, Bobbs-Merrill, Harper & Row, Mosaic, Harcourt, Brace and World, Lippincott, University of Pittsburgh Press, Wesleyan University Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, Rutgers University Press, Kennikat Press, University of Minnesota Press, National Endowment for the Humanities, University of Tennessee Press, University of Oklahoma Press, Northern Illinois University Press, University of Georgia Press, University of Mississippi Press, University of North Carolina Press, University of Massachusetts Press, Cornell University Press, et al.

THE SCARLET LETTER, TOGETHER WITH MAIN STREET, ETHAN BRAND, AND HAWTHORNE’S PUBLISHED CRITICAL WRITINGS, compiled, edited, with critical introduction. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1967. xxxiv+355 pages.

HERMAN MELVILLE’S THE CONFIDENCE-MAN: HIS MASQUERADE. Annotated edition with critical introduction. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1967. xxxiv+355 pages. Revised edition with Preface by Daniel Handler. Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2007. xxxiii+355 pages.

“The Island Worlds of Darwin and Melville,” The Centennial Review of Arts and Sciences, 11 (Summer 1967), 353-370.

“Lenin, Youth, and Revolution,” Progressive Labor, 6 (November- December, 1967), 111-113.

English narrative for U.S. sequence and English translation of French narrative for Vietnamese sequence, Loin du Viet Nam, film by Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, Roger Pic, William Klein, Chris Marker, et al., Paris, 1967.

“Fictions of Science,” Southern Review, 12 (Autumn 1967), 1036- 1049.

“On Afro-American Liberation,” with Aimé Cesaire and Alioune Diop, La Société Africaine de Culture (Présence Africaine), Paris, July 8, 1967.

FUTURE PERFECT: AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION OF THE 19TH CENTURY. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1966. xiii+401 pages. Second (revised) edition, 1968. Paperback edition (Galaxy Books, Oxford University Press), 1968. Expanded and revised edition (hardback and paperback), Oxford University Press, 1978. xiii+404 pages. 4th edition, expanded and revised, Rutgers University Press, 1995. 400 pages.

“Science Fiction: The New Mythology,” with Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl, and Darko Suvin (MLA Forum, 1968), transcribed in Extrapolation, 10 (May 1969), 69-115.

“1968; Or, Bringing the War Home: The Vision of the Movement and the Alternative Press,” The Vietnam Era. Ed. Michael Klein. London: Pluto Press and Winchester, MA: Unwin Hyman, 1990, 65-81.

“On ‘A Strategy for American Studies,”‘ American Studies Association of Northern California, October 26, 1968.

“Science Fiction,” Chairperson and Panelist, Forum, Modern Language Convention, December, 1968.

“Who Should Run the Universities?” Rational Debate Series of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, January 24 and 31, 1968, Washington, D.C.

WHO SHOULD RUN THE UNIVERSITIES? John A. Howard, President of Rockford College, co-author. Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1969. v+243 pages.

“Science Fiction,” The World Book Encyclopedia. Chicago, 1969.

“Science Fiction: The New Mythology,” with Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl, and Darko Suvin (MLA Forum, 1968), transcribed in Extrapolation, 10 (May 1969), 69-115.

(“Moby-Dick: An Egyptian Myth” from The Wake of the Gods reprinted in Studies in Moby-Dick, Edited by Howard P. Vincent, Columbus, Ohio: Charles E. Merrill, 1969, 130-136.)

“The Subversiveness of Science Fiction,” Second Annual Conference, Science Fiction Writers of America, Los Angeles, March 15, 1969.

1969- : Lectures and talks at Amherst College, Antioch College; Brown University; University of California, Berkeley; UCLA; University of California, San Diego; University of California, Santa Cruz; Portland State University; Pennsylvania State University; University of Pennsylvania; Columbia University; New York University; Wesleyan University; State University of New York, Buffalo; Youngstown State University; University of Akron; Kent State University; Rutgers; Mills College; College of San Mateo; Foothill College; Cañada College; Cabrillo College; University of Connecticut; California State University, San Jose; California State University, San Diego; California State University, Sacramento; California State University, San Francisco; California State University, Hayward; University of Alberta; Valparaiso University (Indiana); Enoch Pratt Library (Baltimore); California State University, Fullerton; University of Santa Clara; University of Colorado; University of Oregon; University of Montana; Claremont Graduate School; Reed College; University of Massachusetts; University of Washington (Seattle); Sarah Lawrence College; Swarthmore College; Trinity College; University of California, Riverside; Yale University; et al.

“Fictions of the Future,” Stanford Today (Summer 1966). With subtitle, “The Politics of Literary Prophecy,” as condensation in Current (December 1966). Revised, in THE FUTURIST, 4 (February 1970), 26-28.

“J. G. Ballard’s Subliminal Man,” in The Mirror of Infinity (New York: Harper and Row, 1970), 237-242. In Perennial Library, paperback edition, 220-225. Reprinted in SF: The Other Side of Realism (Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1971), 199-203.

“The Teaching of Literature in the Highest Academies of the Empire,” The Politics of Literature (New York: Random House, Pantheon Books, 1972 and Vintage Books, 1973), 101-129. Earlier version in College English, 31 (March 1970), 548-557. Reprinted in 100 Flowers, 1 (Spring 1971), 47-52. Also in University Review, #21 (1971), 29-32.

“On Hearing from Some Professors of the American Empire,” College English, 32 (November 1970), 219-225. Reprinted in The Politics of Literature.

(Billy Budd chapter of The Wake of the Gods reprinted in edited form in Studies in Billy Budd, Edited by Haskell S. Springer, Columbus, Ohio: Charles E. Merrill, 1970, 118-130.)

“The Lumpenproletariat and the Revolutionary Youth Movement,” Monthly Review, 21 (January, 1970), 10-25.

“Don’t Look Where We’re Going: Visions of the Future in Science Fiction Films, 1970-1982,” Science-Fiction Studies, X (March, 1983), pp. 70-80. Also in Shadows of the Magic Lamp, Edited by George Slusser, Eric Rabkin, and Robert Scholes. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1985. Pp. 73-85.

(“Visions of the Future in Science Fiction Films from 1970 to 1982” [reprint] in Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema. Ed. Annette Kuhn. London and New York: Verso, 1990. 19-31.)

“Literary Criticism in the 1970s,” with Leslie Fiedler and Thomas Clayton, Special Forum, February 6-7, 1970, UCLA.

“Don’t Look Where We’re Going: Visions of the Future in Science Fiction Films, 1970-1981,” J. Lloyd Eaton Conference, University of California, Riverside, February 28, 1982.

1970-1974: Commentator and talk show host (monthly and bi-monthly), KPFA, Berkeley, California.