Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.

novum n.	2009 I. Csicsery-Ronay SF/Porn: The Case for ‘The Gas’ in Science Fiction Studies (vol. 36 part 3) Nov. 451 The Gas begins with a big technical accident that causes everything that happens in the story…. It is a strong science-fictional novum.
science-fictionality n.	1997 I. Csicsery-Ronay in Science-Fiction Studies Mar. 146 The elements of ‘science-fictionality’ in the everyday life of mass culture are largely ignored.
science-fictionality n.	2009 I. Csicsery-Ronay SF/Porn: The Case for ‘The Gas’ in Science Fiction Studies (vol. 36 part 3) Nov. 441 How could The Gas not be sf? What secret quality of its depiction of sexual pleasure and ‘slapstick sadomasochism’ run amok neutralized its science-fictionality?
slipstreamer n.	1997 I. Csicsery-Ronay in Science-Fiction Studies Mar. 143 Slipstreamers, alpha males, difficult women.
widescreen baroque n.	2015 I. Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. Science Fiction & the Imperial Audience in Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts (vol. 26, iss, 1) 9 When empires are most robust the peripheries communicate and exchange goods directly with the core…. Then comes the inevitable senescence—the center cannot hold, peripheries revolt, factionalism and fanaticism erupt, infrastructure decays, external enemies penetrate, peripheral customs become more interesting than central ones. This is history on a blockbuster scale—widescreen baroque melodrama.