The Review of Contemporary Fiction

Rikki Ducornet/Richard Powers
* Jim Neilson, "Dirtying Our Hands: An Introduction to the Fiction of Richard Powers" * Jim Neilson, "An Interview with Richard Powers" * James Hurt, "Narrative Powers: Richard Powers as Storyteller" * Greg Dawes, "The Storm of Progress: Richard Powers's Three Farmers" * Joseph Dewey, "Hooking the Nose of the Leviathan: Information, Knowledge, and the Mysteries of Bonding in The Gold Bug Variations" * Trey Stecker, "Ecologies of Knowledge: The Encyclopedic Narratives of Richard Powers and His Contemporaries" * Ann Pancake, " 'TheWheel's Worst Illusion' ": The Spatial Politics of Operation Wandering Soul" * Sharon Snyder, "The Gender of Genius: Scientific Experts and Literary Amateurs in the Fiction of Richard Powers" * Charles B. Harris, " 'The Stereo View': Politics and the Role of the Reader in Gain" * A Richard Powers Checklist * Sinda Gregory, "Finding a Language: Introducing Rikki Ducornet" * Sinda Gregory and Larry McCaffery, "At the Heart of Things and Wild Beauty: An Interview with Rikki Ducornet" * Rikki Ducornet, "The Death Cunt of Deep Dell" * Rikki Ducornet, "Excerpts from Five Novels" * Raymond Leslie Williams, "Ducornet and Borges" * Allen Guttmann, "Rikki Ducornet's Tetralogy of Elements: An Appreciation" * Richard Martin, " 'The Tantalizing Prize': Telling the Telling of The Fountains of Neptune" * Giovanna Covi, "Gender Derision, Gender Corrosion, and Sexual Differences in Rikki Ducornet's Materialist Eden" * Lynne Diamond-Nigh, "Phosphor in Dreamland" * Warren Motte, "Desiring Words" * A Rikki Ducornet Checklist * Books Received * Annual Index