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Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy Books in Order

This page lists the complete Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy reading order by Frederik Pohl, with book numbers, publication years, and a publication-order view for readers who want to start at the beginning.

Updated 2026-06-22 / 82 books / 2005-2023

Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy Reading Order

01 Worlds Apart? Dualism and Transgression in Contemporary Female Dystopias(By: Dunja M. Mohr) 2005 Buy
02 Culture, Identities and Technology in the Star Wars Films(By: Tony M. Vinci,Carl Silvio) 2007 Buy
03 Tolkien and Shakespeare(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Janet Brennan Croft) 2007 Buy
04 Hugo Gernsback and the Century of Science Fiction(By: Gary Westfahl) 2007 Buy
05 The Influence of Star Trek on Television, Film and Culture(By: Lincoln Geraghty) 2007 Buy
06 The Evolution of Tolkien's Mythology(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Elizabeth A. Whittingham) 2007 Buy
07 Dreams and Nightmares(By: Mordecai Roshwald) 2008 Buy
08 H. Beam Piper(By: John F. Carr) 2008 Buy
09 Science Fiction and the Two Cultures(By: George Edgar Slusser,Gary Westfahl) 2009 Buy
10 Stephen R. Donaldson and the Modern Epic Vision(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Christine Barkley) 2009 Buy
11 The Science of Fiction and the Fiction of Science(By: Neil Gaiman,Frank McConnell,Gary Westfahl,Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III) 2009 Buy
12 The Inter-Galactic Playground(By: Farah Mendlesohn) 2009 Buy
13 Portals of Power(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Lori M. Campbell) 2010 Buy
14 Illuminating Torchwood(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Andrew Ireland) 2010 Buy
15 Comics as a Nexus of Cultures(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Jochen Ecke,Mark Berninger,Gideon Haberkorn) 2010 Buy
16 The Animal Fable in Science Fiction and Fantasy(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Bruce Shaw) 2010 Buy
17 The Twilight Mystique(By: Donald E. Palumbo,Amy M. Clarke,Marijane Osborn) 2010 Buy
18 The Anticipation Novelists of 1950s French Science Fiction(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Bradford Lyau) 2010 Buy
19 Science Fiction and the Prediction of the Future(By: Gary Westfahl,Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Wong Kin Yuen,Amy Kit-sze Chan) 2011 Buy
20 Apocalypse in Australian Fiction and Film(By: unknown author) 2011 Buy
21 The Mythic Fantasy of Robert Holdstock(By: Donald E. Morse,Kalman Matolcsy) 2011 Buy
22 British Science Fiction Film and Television(By: Derek Johnston,James Leggott,RebeccaWilliams,Tobias Hochscherf) 2011 Buy
23 Apocalypse in Australian Fiction and Film: A Critical Study(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Roslyn Weaver) 2011 Buy
24 The Postnational Fantasy(By: Masood Ashraf Raja,Donald M. Hassler,Jason W. Ellis,Swaralipi Nandi) 2011 Buy
25 Cult Telefantasy Series(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Sue Short) 2011 Buy
26 Heinlein's Juvenile Novels(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III) 2011 Buy
27 Welsh Mythology and Folklore in Popular Culture(By: Kristin Noone,Audrey Becker) 2011 Buy
28 Of Bread, Blood and the Hunger Games(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Mary F. Pharr,Leisa A. Clark) 2012 Buy
29 The Sex Is Out of This World(By: Michael G. Cornelius,Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Sherry Ginn) 2012 Buy
30 I See You(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Ellen Grabiner) 2012 Buy
31 The Sex Is Out of This World: Essays on the Carnal Side of Science Fiction(By: Michael G. Cornelius,Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Sherry Ginn) 2012 Buy
32 Orbiting Ray Bradbury's Mars(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Gloria McMillan) 2013 Buy
33 Girls Transforming(By: Sanna Lehtonen) 2013 Buy
34 The Worlds of Farscape(By: Sherry Ginn) 2013 Buy
35 Lois McMaster Bujold(By: Sylvia Kelso,Linda Wight,Amy H. Sturgis,Shannan Palma,Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Regina Yung Lee,Sandra J. Lindow,Janet Brennan Croft,David D. Oberhelman,Virginia Bemis,Andrew Hallam,John Lennard) 2013 Buy
36 Doctor Who in Time and Space(By: Racheline Maltese,J.M. Frey,Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Janet Brennan Croft,Gillian I. Leitch,Dunja M. Mohr) 2013 Buy
37 The Past That Might Have Been, the Future That May Come(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Lauren J. Lacey) 2013 Buy
38 The Heritage of Heinlein(With: Thomas D. Clareson,Joe Sanders,Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III) 2013 Buy
39 Nature and the Numinous in Mythopoeic Fantasy Literature(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Chris Brawley) 2014 Buy
40 Environments in Science Fiction(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Susan M. Bernardo) 2014 Buy
41 Discworld and the Disciplines(By: Anne Hiebert Alton) 2014 Buy
42 Stephen R. Donaldson and the modern epic vision : a critical study of the "Chronicles of Thomas Covenant" novels(By: Christine Barkley) 2014 Buy
43 J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert E. Howard and the Birth of Modern Fantasy(By: ) 2014 Buy
44 The Monomyth in American Science Fiction Films(By: Donald E. Palumbo) 2014 Buy
45 The Fantastic in Holocaust Literature and Film(By: John Edgar Browning,Judith B. Kerman) 2015 Buy
46 Michael Moorcock(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Mark Scroggins) 2015 Buy
47 Star Wars in the Public Square(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Derek R. Sweet) 2016 Buy
48 An Asimov Companion: Characters, Places and Terms in the Robot/Empire/Foundation Metaseries(By: Donald E. Palumbo) 2016 Buy
49 An Asimov Companion(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III) 2016 Buy
50 The Science Fiction Mythmakers: Religion, Science and Philosophy in Wells, Clarke, Dick and Herbert(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Jennifer Simkins) 2016 Buy
51 The Science Fiction Mythmakers(By: Jennifer Simkins) 2016 Buy
52 The Last Midnight(By: Mary F. Pharr,Leisa A. Clark,Amanda Firestone) 2016 Buy
53 Gender and the Quest in British Science Fiction Television(By: Tom Powers) 2016 Buy
54 Saving the World Through Science Fiction(By: ) 2017 Buy
55 Science Fiction and Futurism(By: Ace G. Pilkington) 2017 Buy
56 Wells Meets Deleuze(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Michael Starr) 2017 Buy
57 Patricia A. McKillip and the Art of Fantasy World-Building(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Audrey Isabel Taylor) 2017 Buy
58 Science Fiction in Classic Rock(By: Robert McParland) 2017 Buy
59 A Dune Companion(By: Donald E. Palumbo) 2018 Buy
60 The Fabulous Journeys of Alice and Pinocchio(By: Donald E. Palumbo,Peter Hunt,Laura Tosi) 2018 Buy
61 Fantasy Literature and Christianity(By: ) 2018 Buy
62 The Archive Incarnate(By: Joseph Hurtgen) 2018 Buy
63 The British Comic Book Invasion(By: Jochen Ecke) 2018 Buy
64 Hailing frequencies open: Communication in Star Trek(By: Thomas D. Parham) 2019 Buy
65 Women's Space(By: Melanie A Marotta) 2019 Buy
66 The Global Vampire(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Cait Coker) 2020 Buy
67 Philip K. Dick: Essays of the Here and Now(By: David Sandner,Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III) 2020 Buy
68 Caitl’n R. Kiernan: A Critical Study of Her Dark Fiction(By: James Goho,Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III) 2020 Buy
69 The Fortean Influence on Science Fiction(By: Tanner F. Boyle) 2020 Buy
70 Michael Bishop and the Persistence of Wonder(By: Joe Sanders,Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III) 2021 Buy
71 In Frankenstein's Wake(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Alison Bedford) 2021 Buy
72 The Truths of Monsters(By: Ildik’ Limp’r) 2021 Buy
73 The Mythopoeic Code of Tolkien(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Jyrki Korpua) 2021 Buy
74 English Magic and Imperial Madness(By: Peter D. Mathews) 2021 Buy
75 Speculative Modernism(By: William Gillard,James Reitter,Robert Stauffer) 2021 Buy
76 Arab and Muslim Science Fiction(By: Emad El-Din Aysha,Hosam A. Ibrahim Elzembely) 2022 Buy
77 The Self and Community in Star Trek(By: Susan M Bernardo) 2022 Buy
78 Magic Words, Magic Worlds(By: Matthew Oliver) 2022 Buy
79 Arab and Muslim Science Fiction: Critical Essays(By: Emad El-Din Aysha,Hosam A. Ibrahim Elzembely) 2022 Buy
80 Science, Technology and Magic in the Witcher(By: Donald E Palumbo,C W Sullivan III,Kristine Larsen) 2022 Buy
81 Nnedi Okorafor(By: Sandra J Lindow) 2022 Buy
82 Analyzing Adventure Time(By: Paul A.Thomas) 2023 Buy

Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy Books by Publication Order

2005 Worlds Apart? Dualism and Transgression in Contemporary Female Dystopias(By: Dunja M. Mohr) #1
2007 Culture, Identities and Technology in the Star Wars Films(By: Tony M. Vinci,Carl Silvio) #2
2007 Tolkien and Shakespeare(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Janet Brennan Croft) #3
2007 Hugo Gernsback and the Century of Science Fiction(By: Gary Westfahl) #4
2007 The Influence of Star Trek on Television, Film and Culture(By: Lincoln Geraghty) #5
2007 The Evolution of Tolkien's Mythology(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Elizabeth A. Whittingham) #6
2008 Dreams and Nightmares(By: Mordecai Roshwald) #7
2008 H. Beam Piper(By: John F. Carr) #8
2009 Science Fiction and the Two Cultures(By: George Edgar Slusser,Gary Westfahl) #9
2009 Stephen R. Donaldson and the Modern Epic Vision(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Christine Barkley) #10
2009 The Science of Fiction and the Fiction of Science(By: Neil Gaiman,Frank McConnell,Gary Westfahl,Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III) #11
2009 The Inter-Galactic Playground(By: Farah Mendlesohn) #12
2010 Portals of Power(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Lori M. Campbell) #13
2010 Illuminating Torchwood(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Andrew Ireland) #14
2010 Comics as a Nexus of Cultures(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Jochen Ecke,Mark Berninger,Gideon Haberkorn) #15
2010 The Animal Fable in Science Fiction and Fantasy(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Bruce Shaw) #16
2010 The Twilight Mystique(By: Donald E. Palumbo,Amy M. Clarke,Marijane Osborn) #17
2010 The Anticipation Novelists of 1950s French Science Fiction(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Bradford Lyau) #18
2011 Science Fiction and the Prediction of the Future(By: Gary Westfahl,Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Wong Kin Yuen,Amy Kit-sze Chan) #19
2011 Apocalypse in Australian Fiction and Film(By: unknown author) #20
2011 The Mythic Fantasy of Robert Holdstock(By: Donald E. Morse,Kalman Matolcsy) #21
2011 British Science Fiction Film and Television(By: Derek Johnston,James Leggott,RebeccaWilliams,Tobias Hochscherf) #22
2011 Apocalypse in Australian Fiction and Film: A Critical Study(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Roslyn Weaver) #23
2011 The Postnational Fantasy(By: Masood Ashraf Raja,Donald M. Hassler,Jason W. Ellis,Swaralipi Nandi) #24
2011 Cult Telefantasy Series(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Sue Short) #25
2011 Heinlein's Juvenile Novels(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III) #26
2011 Welsh Mythology and Folklore in Popular Culture(By: Kristin Noone,Audrey Becker) #27
2012 Of Bread, Blood and the Hunger Games(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Mary F. Pharr,Leisa A. Clark) #28
2012 The Sex Is Out of This World(By: Michael G. Cornelius,Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Sherry Ginn) #29
2012 I See You(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Ellen Grabiner) #30
2012 The Sex Is Out of This World: Essays on the Carnal Side of Science Fiction(By: Michael G. Cornelius,Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Sherry Ginn) #31
2013 Orbiting Ray Bradbury's Mars(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Gloria McMillan) #32
2013 Girls Transforming(By: Sanna Lehtonen) #33
2013 The Worlds of Farscape(By: Sherry Ginn) #34
2013 Lois McMaster Bujold(By: Sylvia Kelso,Linda Wight,Amy H. Sturgis,Shannan Palma,Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Regina Yung Lee,Sandra J. Lindow,Janet Brennan Croft,David D. Oberhelman,Virginia Bemis,Andrew Hallam,John Lennard) #35
2013 Doctor Who in Time and Space(By: Racheline Maltese,J.M. Frey,Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Janet Brennan Croft,Gillian I. Leitch,Dunja M. Mohr) #36
2013 The Past That Might Have Been, the Future That May Come(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Lauren J. Lacey) #37
2013 The Heritage of Heinlein(With: Thomas D. Clareson,Joe Sanders,Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III) #38
2014 Nature and the Numinous in Mythopoeic Fantasy Literature(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Chris Brawley) #39
2014 Environments in Science Fiction(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Susan M. Bernardo) #40
2014 Discworld and the Disciplines(By: Anne Hiebert Alton) #41
2014 Stephen R. Donaldson and the modern epic vision : a critical study of the "Chronicles of Thomas Covenant" novels(By: Christine Barkley) #42
2014 J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert E. Howard and the Birth of Modern Fantasy(By: ) #43
2014 The Monomyth in American Science Fiction Films(By: Donald E. Palumbo) #44
2015 The Fantastic in Holocaust Literature and Film(By: John Edgar Browning,Judith B. Kerman) #45
2015 Michael Moorcock(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Mark Scroggins) #46
2016 Star Wars in the Public Square(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Derek R. Sweet) #47
2016 An Asimov Companion: Characters, Places and Terms in the Robot/Empire/Foundation Metaseries(By: Donald E. Palumbo) #48
2016 An Asimov Companion(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III) #49
2016 The Science Fiction Mythmakers: Religion, Science and Philosophy in Wells, Clarke, Dick and Herbert(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Jennifer Simkins) #50
2016 The Science Fiction Mythmakers(By: Jennifer Simkins) #51
2016 The Last Midnight(By: Mary F. Pharr,Leisa A. Clark,Amanda Firestone) #52
2016 Gender and the Quest in British Science Fiction Television(By: Tom Powers) #53
2017 Saving the World Through Science Fiction(By: ) #54
2017 Science Fiction and Futurism(By: Ace G. Pilkington) #55
2017 Wells Meets Deleuze(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Michael Starr) #56
2017 Patricia A. McKillip and the Art of Fantasy World-Building(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Audrey Isabel Taylor) #57
2017 Science Fiction in Classic Rock(By: Robert McParland) #58
2018 A Dune Companion(By: Donald E. Palumbo) #59
2018 The Fabulous Journeys of Alice and Pinocchio(By: Donald E. Palumbo,Peter Hunt,Laura Tosi) #60
2018 Fantasy Literature and Christianity(By: ) #61
2018 The Archive Incarnate(By: Joseph Hurtgen) #62
2018 The British Comic Book Invasion(By: Jochen Ecke) #63
2019 Hailing frequencies open: Communication in Star Trek(By: Thomas D. Parham) #64
2019 Women's Space(By: Melanie A Marotta) #65
2020 The Global Vampire(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Cait Coker) #66
2020 Philip K. Dick: Essays of the Here and Now(By: David Sandner,Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III) #67
2020 Caitl’n R. Kiernan: A Critical Study of Her Dark Fiction(By: James Goho,Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III) #68
2020 The Fortean Influence on Science Fiction(By: Tanner F. Boyle) #69
2021 Michael Bishop and the Persistence of Wonder(By: Joe Sanders,Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III) #70
2021 In Frankenstein's Wake(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Alison Bedford) #71
2021 The Truths of Monsters(By: Ildik’ Limp’r) #72
2021 The Mythopoeic Code of Tolkien(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Jyrki Korpua) #73
2021 English Magic and Imperial Madness(By: Peter D. Mathews) #74
2021 Speculative Modernism(By: William Gillard,James Reitter,Robert Stauffer) #75
2022 Arab and Muslim Science Fiction(By: Emad El-Din Aysha,Hosam A. Ibrahim Elzembely) #76
2022 The Self and Community in Star Trek(By: Susan M Bernardo) #77
2022 Magic Words, Magic Worlds(By: Matthew Oliver) #78
2022 Arab and Muslim Science Fiction: Critical Essays(By: Emad El-Din Aysha,Hosam A. Ibrahim Elzembely) #79
2022 Science, Technology and Magic in the Witcher(By: Donald E Palumbo,C W Sullivan III,Kristine Larsen) #80
2022 Nnedi Okorafor(By: Sandra J Lindow) #81
2023 Analyzing Adventure Time(By: Paul A.Thomas) #82

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