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#113 | Volume 38 | Part 1 | March 2011 | Special Issue on Slipstream | ||
Introduction and Critical Bibliography | 1 | |||||
Bruce Sterling | Slipstream 2 | 6 | ||||
Symposium on Slipstream | 11 | |||||
Paweł Frelik | Of Slipstream and Others: SF and Genre Boundary Discourses | 20 | ||||
Justin St. Clair | Borrowed Time: Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day and the Victorian Fourth Dimension | 46 | ||||
Brooks Landon | Slipstream Then, Slipstream Now: The Curious Connections between William Douglas O’Connor’s “The Brazen Android” and Michael Cunningham’s Specimen Days | 67 | ||||
T.S. Miller | Preternatural Narration and the Lens of Genre Fiction in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | 92 | ||||
N. Katherine Hayles | Material Entanglements: Steven Hall’s The Raw Shark Texts as Slipstream Novel | 115 | ||||
Sarah Dillon | “It’s a Question of Words, Therefore”: Becoming-Animal in Michel Faber’s Under the Skin | 134 | ||||
Andrew Wenaus | Fractal Narrative, Paraspace, and Strange Loops: The Paradox of Escape in Jeff Noon’s Vurt | 155 | ||||
REVIEW-ESSAYS | ||||||
Jeff Hicks and Mark Young | Slipstreams, Paraspheres, Interstices: Fictions of the New Millennium: Kelly/Kessel’s The Secret History of Science Fiction, Morrison/Keegan’s Paraspheres, Morrow’s Impossible Realism, Sherman/Goss/Barzak’s Anthology of Interstitial Writing (2 vols.), Team Bizarro’s Introduction to the Bizarro Genre (2 vols.), and Ann/Jeff Vandermeer’s The New Weird | 175 | ||||
Joshua Raulerson | Nanoculture and the Future of SF: Milburn’s Nanovision: Engineering the Future | 183 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
Baxter’s J.G. Ballard (Doug Davis) | 192 | |||||
Broderick’s Unleashing the Strange: Twenty-First Century Science Fiction Literature (Adam Guzkowski) | 194 | |||||
Greven’s Gender and Sexuality in STAR TREK (Jennifer Gunnels) | 195 | |||||
Magnanini’s Fairy-Tale Science (Jane Donawerth) | 199 | |||||
Perlich/Whitt’s Millennial Mythmaking (Adam Frisch) | 200 | |||||
Russell’s Trans/Forming Utopia (2 vols.) (Richard Hunt) | 202 | |||||
Books Received | 206 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
Further Readings in the Slipstream | 208 | |||||
SF Cold War Exhibit (Morgan Hubbard) | 219 | |||||
Gernsback Exhibit in Luxembourg (Gérard Kraus) | 220 | |||||
PKD Redux (Carol McGuirk) | 220 | |||||
New Directions of the European Fantastic | 220 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 221 | |||||
#114 | Volume 38 | Part 2 | July 2011 | ESSAY | ||
Brian W. Aldiss | Metaphysical Realism | 225 | ||||
ARTICLES | ||||||
Kevin LaGrandeur | The Persistent Peril of the Artificial Slave | 232 | ||||
Geraldine Lawless | Unknown Futures: Nineteenth-Century Science Fiction in Spain | 253 | ||||
Pavla Veselá | Neither Black nor White: The Critical Utopias of Sutton E. Griggs and George S. Schuyler | 270 | ||||
Thomas Van Parys | A Fantastic Voyage to Inner Space: Description in Science-Fiction Novelizations | 288 | ||||
Nicholas C. Laudadio | “Sounds like a Human Performance”: The Electronic Music Synthesizer in Mid-Twentieth-Century SF | 304 | ||||
REVIEW-ESSAYS | ||||||
Joan Gordon | Learning to Live with Animals in SF: Vint’s Animal Alterity: Science Fiction and the Question of the Animal | 321 | ||||
Patrick Parrinder: The War of Wells’s Lives: Sherborne’s H.G. Wells: Another Kind of Life | 327 | |||||
Gary Westfahl | A Work of Art, If Not a Masterpiece: Frank’s Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists of the Twentieth Century | 334 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
Billings’s M.P. Shiel | The Middle Years 1897-1923 (Susan Zieger) | 340 | ||||
Bolton’s Sublime Voices: The Fictional Science and Scientific Fiction of Abe Kobo (Takayuki Tatsumi) | 341 | |||||
Booker/Thomas’s The Science Fiction Handbook (Len Hatfield) | 344 | |||||
Busch’s The Utopian Vision of H.G. Wells (Graham J. Murphy) | 345 | |||||
Cowan’s Sacred Space: The Quest for Transcendence in Science Fiction Film and Television (Jennifer Kavetsky) | 346 | |||||
Evans/Csicsery-Ronay/Gordon/Hollinger/Latham/McGuirk’s The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (Kathleen Ann Goonan) | 348 | |||||
Godwin’s The Man in the Moone (Patrick B. Sharp) | 351 | |||||
Jones’s Essays and Talks on Fiction, Feminism, Technology, and Politics (David M. Higgins) | 352 | |||||
Mendlesohn’s On Joanna Russ (Ritch Calvin) | 354 | |||||
Pintér’s The Anatomy of Utopia: Narration, Estrangement and Ambiguity in More, Wells, Huxley and Clarke (Amy J. Ransom) | 357 | |||||
Tabachnick’s Teaching the Graphic Novel (Paul Rosa) | 358 | |||||
Westfahl’s Islands in the Sky: The Space Station Theme in Science Fiction Literature (Neil Easterbrook) | 359 | |||||
Yi’s Aesthetics and Ethics in the Age of Postmodernism (Paweł Frelik) | 363 | |||||
Books Received | 366 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
“For-a-While”: Remembering Joanna Russ (1937-2011) | 369 | |||||
Suburbia and the Dual City in The Iron Heel (Carl Abbott) | 370 | |||||
John Wyndham and Octavia Butler (David Ketterer) | 373 | |||||
The Trouble with Samuel Delany’s Pornography (Michael Hemmingson) | 376 | |||||
Louis Armstrong: Secret SF Fan? (Barbara Bengels) | 378 | |||||
Conferences, Calls for Papers, Corrections | 380 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 383 | |||||
#115 | Volume 38 | Part 3 | November 2011 | ESSAY | ||
Mike Davis | Ward Moore’s Freedom Ride | 385 | ||||
ARTICLES | ||||||
Andrew Milner | Science Fiction and the Literary Field | 393 | ||||
Charles Thorpe | Death of a Salesman: Petit-Bourgeois Dread in Philip K. Dick’s Mainstream Fiction | 412 | ||||
Theo Finigan | “Into the Memory Hole”: Totalitarianism and Mal d’Archive in Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Handmaid’s Tale | 435 | ||||
Elissa Gurman | “The holy and the powerful light that shines through history”: Tradition and Technology in Marge Piercy’s He, She and It | 460 | ||||
Charles Paulk | Post-National Cool: William Gibson’s Japan | 478 | ||||
REVIEW-ESSAYS | ||||||
Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. | Sound is the New Light: Whittington’s Sound Design and Science Fiction | 501 | ||||
Carl Abbott | The Imagination of Disaster, Revisited: Page’s The City’s End and Yablon’s Untimely Ruins | 508 | ||||
Jess Nevins | Defining Steampunk: Ashley’s Steampunk Prime, Bowser/Croxall’s “Steampunk, Science, and (Neo)Victorian Technologies,” and VanderMeers’ Steampunk II | 513 | ||||
Jerome Winter | Lab Coats, Not Straitjackets: Allen’s Master Mechanics and Wicked Wizards and Kirby’s Science, Scientists, and Film | 519 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
Bolton/Csicsery-Ronay, Jr./Tatsumi’s Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams (Hajime Nakatani) | 525 | |||||
Meehan’s The Fusion of Science Fiction and Film Noir and Botting’s Limits of Horror (Carl Freedman) | 528 | |||||
Bould/Butler/Roberts/Vint’s Fifty Key Figures in SF (Eric S. Rabkin) | 530 | |||||
Cherry’s Horror (Kimberly Hall) | 532 | |||||
Chu’s Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sheep? (John Rieder) | 534 | |||||
Fowler/Notkin’s 80! Memories & Reflections on Ursula K. Le Guin (Elizabeth Lundberg) | 538 | |||||
Gomel’s Postmodern Science Fiction and Temporal Imagination (Joshua Raulerson) | 539 | |||||
Hampton’s Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler (Arianna Gremigni) | 542 | |||||
Mendlesohn/James’s A Short History of Fantasy (Kristin Noone) | 545 | |||||
Rich’s C.M Kornbluth (Joe Sanders) | 547 | |||||
Thaler’s Black Atlantic Speculative Fictions (Mark Young) | 550 | |||||
Urbanski’s Essays on New Media Rhetoric (Lisa Yaszek) | 552 | |||||
Books Received | 555 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
Campbell, “Doc” Smith, and the CIC (Edward Wysocki) | 558 | |||||
William Wilson (Richard Bleiler) | 562 | |||||
Mullen Research Fellows for 2011-12 (Rob Latham) | 564 | |||||
“Must-Read” SF (Carol McGuirk) | 565 | |||||
New Associations, Conference Reports, Translation Awards, CFPs | 566 | |||||
Volume Index | 571 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 576 | |||||
#116 | Volume 39 | Part 1 | March 2012 | The 2011 SFS Symposium: The Singularity | ||
Rob Latham | Introduction | 1 | ||||
Brooks Landon | That Light at the End of the Tunnel: The Plurality of Singularity | 2 | ||||
Neal Easterbrook | Singularities | 15 | ||||
Rob Latham | From Outer to Inner Space: New Wave Science Fiction and the Singularity | 28 | ||||
ARTICLES | ||||||
Stephen Dougherty | Embodiment and Technicity in Geoff Ryman’s Air | 40 | ||||
Everett Hamner | Remembering the Disappeared: Science Fiction Film in Post-dictatorship Argentina | 60 | ||||
Steffen Hantke | A German Hero for the Cold War: Wolfgang F. Henschel’s Alpha Alpha (1972) | 81 | ||||
REVIEW-ESSAYS | ||||||
Christopher Palmer | Tracing and Complicating the Dickian Networks: Rossi’s The Twisted Worlds of Philip K. Dick and Rickels’s I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick | 105 | ||||
Umberto Rossi | A Sort of Homecoming: Fortin’s Philip K. Dick and the Spectacle of Home | 112 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
Auger’s Tech-Noir Film: A Theory of the Development of Popular Genres (Pawel Frelik) | 118 | |||||
Baxter’s The Life of J.G. Ballard (Umberto Rossi) | 120 | |||||
Booker’s Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction (Patrick B. Sharp) | 123 | |||||
Brown’s Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture (Jonathan Smith) | 125 | |||||
Clute’s Pardon this Intrusion: Fantastika in the World Storm (Gerry Canavan) | 127 | |||||
Duchamp’s Narrative Power (Veronica Schanoes) | 129 | |||||
Haywood Ferreira’s The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction (Juan C. Toledano Redondo) | 131 | |||||
Henthorne’s William Gibson: A Literary Companion (Russell Blackford) | 133 | |||||
Kang’s The Automaton in the European Imagination (Roger Luckhurst) | 135 | |||||
Paik’s Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe (Jeff Hicks) | 138 | |||||
Resnick/Malzberg’s The Business of Science Fiction (Gary Westfahl) | 141 | |||||
Stableford’s new edition of Han Ryner’s The Superhumans (Jesse Cohn) | 144 | |||||
Solomon’s Georges Méliès’s TRIP TO THE MOON (J.P. Telotte) | 147 | |||||
Schulman’s new edition of Jules Verne’s The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz (Arthur B. Evans) | 150 | |||||
Westfahl/Yuen/Chan’s Science Fiction and the Prediction of the Future (Andrew Ferguson) | 153 | |||||
Wolfe’s Evaporating Genres (Andrew M. Butler) | 155 | |||||
Books Received | 158 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
Astounding and World War II (Ed Wysocki) | 162 | |||||
Asimov versus Robinson (Carl Freedman) | 165 | |||||
Exegesis on Exegesis (Rob Latham) | 166 | |||||
Conference Report from Israel (Sherryl Vint) | 166 | |||||
Call for Applications: R.D. Mullen Fellowship (Rob Latham) | 167 | |||||
Calls for Papers, Upcoming Conferences, etc | 168 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 174 | |||||
#117 | Volume 39 | Part 2 | July 2012 | ARTICLES | ||
Elana Gomel | Posthuman Voices: Alien Infestation and the Poetics of Subjectivity | 177 | ||||
Thomas M. Barrett | Heart of a Serpent? The Cold War Science Fiction of Murray Leinster | 195 | ||||
Carl Abbott | Rocky Mountain Refuge: Constructing “Colorado” in Science Fiction | 221 | ||||
Umberto Rossi | The Shunts in the Tale: The Narrative Architecture of Philip K. Dick’s VALIS | 243 | ||||
Amanda Thibodeau | Alien Bodies and a Queer Future: Sexual Revision in Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild” and James Tiptree, Jr.’s “With Delicate Mad Hands” | 262 | ||||
Andrew Hageman | The Challenge of Imagining Ecological Futures: Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl | 283 | ||||
REVIEW-ESSAYS | ||||||
Mark Bould | From Llanvihangel Crucorney and Zagreb to the Stars!: Milner’s Raymond Williams on SF, Utopias, and Dystopias and Suvin’s Essays on Utopia, SF, and Political Epistemology | 304 | ||||
Brooks Landon | Reading the Red Planet: Crossley’s Imagining Mars and Hendrix/Slusser/Rabkin’s Visions of Mars | 313 | ||||
Patrick A. McCarthy | Two Briefs on Science Fiction: Bould/Vint’s The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction and Seed’s Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction | 327 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
Caroti’s The Generation Starship in Science Fiction (Michael Levy) | 332 | |||||
New edition of De Mille’s A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (Nicholas Ruddick) | 333 | |||||
Lavender’s Race in American Science Fiction (André Carrington) | 336 | |||||
Lovén’s Virtual Reality in Science Fiction (Jason W. Ellis) | 338 | |||||
McGrath’s Religion and Science Fiction (Matthew Bond) | 341 | |||||
Saint-Gelais’s Fictions transfuges (Roger Bozzetto) | 343 | |||||
Geetha/Amit Sarwal’s Exploring Science Fiction and Sawyer/Wright’s Teaching Science Fiction (Craig B. Jacobsen) | 344 | |||||
Wittkower’s Philip K. Dick and Philosophy (Joshua Pearson) | 348 | |||||
Books Received | 350 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
Report from the Key West Seminar (Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.) | 353 | |||||
Conference on Global SF Cinema (Pawel Frelik) | 357 | |||||
Correspondence: On the “Singularity Symposium” (Alan C. Elms) | 358 | |||||
SFRA Awards for 2012 (Ritch Calvin) | 359 | |||||
2012-13 Mullen Fellows (Rob Latham) | 360 | |||||
SF Magazines Online (Patrick Scott Belk) | 360 | |||||
University of Iowa Acquires SF Collection (Greg Prickman) | 361 | |||||
Steampunk Exhibition (Mike McGee) | 362 | |||||
New SF Page in the Los Angeles Review of Books (Rob Latham) | 362 | |||||
Heinlein Society Scholarships (Geo Rule) | 363 | |||||
Calls for Papers, Upcoming Conferences and Exhibitions, etc | 363 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 365 | |||||
#118 | Volume 39 | Part 3 | November 2012 | Special Issue on SF and Globalization | ||
Introduction | 369 | |||||
Symposium on Science Fiction and Globalization | 374 | |||||
Roger Luckhurst | Laboratories for Global Space-Time: Science-Fictionality and the World’s Fairs, 1851-1939 | 385 | ||||
Sherryl Vint | Orange County: Global Networks in Tropic of Orange | 401 | ||||
Lysa Rivera | Future Histories and Cyborg Labor: Reading Borderlands Science Fiction after NAFTA | 415 | ||||
Diane Nelson | Pirates, Robbers, and Mayan Shamans: The Terrible and Fine Allure of the Spirits of Capital | 437 | ||||
Jerome Winter | Epistemic Polyverses and the Subaltern: The Postcolonial World-System in Ian McDonald’s Evolution’s Shore and River of Gods | 459 | ||||
Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. | What Do We Mean When We Say “Global Science Fiction”? Reflections on a New Nexus | 478 | ||||
REVIEW-ESSAYS | ||||||
Gerry Canavan | Decolonizing the Future: Langer’s Postcolonialism and Science Fiction and Hoagland/Sarwal’s Science Fiction Imperialism and the Third World | 494 | ||||
Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. | Of Enigmas and Xenoencyclopedias: Saint-Gelais’s Modernités de la science-fiction and Langlet’s La sciencefiction: Lecture et poétique d’un genre littéraire | 500 | ||||
Terry Harpold | Other Kingdoms: Chatelain/Slusser’s Three Science Fiction Novellas by J.-H.Rosny aîné and Stableford’s The Navigators of Space and Other Alien Encounters by J.-H. Rosny aîné | 512 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
Raja/Ellis/Nandi’s The Postnational Fantasy (Weihsin Gui) | 521 | |||||
McCracken-Flesher’s Scotland as Science Fiction (Carol McGuirk) | 523 | |||||
Francis’s The Psychological Fictions of J.G. Ballard (Jeannette Baxter) | 527 | |||||
Gibson’s Distrust that Particular Flavor (Jason W. Ellis) | 529 | |||||
Edwards’s Race, Aliens, and the U.S. Government in African-American Science Fiction (Isiah Lavender III) | 531 | |||||
Williams’s Race, Ethnicity and Nuclear War (Alan Lovegreen) | 533 | |||||
Saler’s As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality (Brian Attebery) | 535 | |||||
Willis’s Vision, Science and Literature, 1870-1920 (Patrick Parrinder) | 537 | |||||
Betz’s The Lesbian Fantastic (Amy J. Ransom) | 539 | |||||
Rawlinson’s new edition of Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange (Michael Jarvis) | 541 | |||||
Scheckter’s new edition of Neville’s The Isle of Pines (Paul Alkon) | 543 | |||||
Kapell/McVeigh’s The Films of James Cameron (Stacey Abbott) | 545 | |||||
Wasson/Alder’s Gothic Science Fiction (Elizabeth Berkebile McManus) | 547 | |||||
Eller’s Becoming Ray Bradbury (David Bañuelos) | 549 | |||||
Lyau’s The Anticipation Novelists of 1950s French SF (Marie-Hélène Huet) | 550 | |||||
Books Received | 552 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
Wartime Stories in Astounding (Edward Wysocki) | 556 | |||||
Evans Receives Clareson Award (Joan Gordon) | 558 | |||||
Africa in Science Fiction (Mark Bould) | 559 | |||||
Note on the Pulp Magazines Project (Patrick Scott Belk) | 561 | |||||
SF at FAU (Carol McGuirk) | 562 | |||||
Third SF Hire at UC Riverside (Rob Latham) | 562 | |||||
Winners of the 2012 SF&F Translation Awards (Cheryl Morgan) | 562 | |||||
Calls for Papers and Other Announcements | 563 | |||||
Volume Index | 565 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 570 | |||||
#119 | Volume 40 | Part 1 | March 2013 | Special Issue on Chinese Science Fiction | ||
Yan Wu | “Great Wall Planet”: Introducing Chinese Science Fiction | 1 | ||||
Han Song | Chinese Science Fiction: A Response to Modernization | 15 | ||||
Liu Cixin | Beyond Narcissism: What Science Fiction Can Offer Literature | 22 | ||||
Nathaniel Isaacson | Science Fiction for the Nation: Tales of the Moon Colony and the Birth of Modern Chinese Fiction | 33 | ||||
Shaoling Ma | “A Tale of New Mr. Braggadocio”: Narrative Subjectivity and Brain Electricity in Late Qing Science Fiction | 55 | ||||
Lisa Raphals | Alterity and Alien Contact in Lao She’s Martian Dystopia, Cat Country | 73 | ||||
Mingwei Song | Variations on Utopia in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction | 86 | ||||
Jia Liyuan | Gloomy China: China’s Image in Han Song’s Science Fiction | 103 | ||||
Qian Jiang | Translation and the Development of Science Fiction in Twentieth-Century China | 116 | ||||
Wei Yang | Voyage into an Unknown Future: A Genre Analysis of Chinese SF Film in the New Millennium | 133 | ||||
REVIEW-ESSAYS | ||||||
Michael Saler | Science, the Paranormal, and Science Fiction: Cheng’s Astounding Wonder and Kripal’s Mutants and Mystics | 148 | ||||
Nicholas Ruddick | Unheimlich Maneuvers: Beaumont’s The Spectre of Utopia and James’s Maps of Utopia | 157 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
Clarke’s Conversations with Jonathan Lethem and Lethem’s The Ecstasy of Influence (Paweł Frelik) | 163 | |||||
Gaspar’s The Time Ship: A Chrononautical Journey (David Wittenberg) | 166 | |||||
Dillon’s Walking the Clouds (Amy Ransom) | 167 | |||||
Murphy/Vint’s Beyond Cyberpunk (Gerry Canavan) | 169 | |||||
Page’s The Literary Imagination from Erasmus Darwin to H.G. Wells: Science Evolution, and Ecology (Patrick Parrinder) | 172 | |||||
Schmeink/Böger’s Collision of Realities and Schmeink/Müller’s Fremde Welten: Wege und Räume der Fantastik (Franz Rottensteiner) | 174 | |||||
Smith’s The Journalism of H.G. Wells (John Huntington) | 177 | |||||
Stallings/Evans’s Murray Leinster: The Life and Works (Joe Sanders) | 179 | |||||
Westfahl’s The Spacesuit Film: A History, 1918-1969 (J.P. Telotte) | 181 | |||||
Zgorzelski’s Born of the Fantastic (Grzegorz Trźbicki) | 184 | |||||
Books Received | 185 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
Cutting Up in der Kunsthalle (Rob Latham) | 188 | |||||
The Politics of Adaptation Conference (Gerry Canavan) | 188 | |||||
The PKD Festival in San Francisco (Umberto Rossi) | 189 | |||||
Tales from the British Museum (Roger Luckhurst) | 191 | |||||
Fi-Sci (Alexis Kirke and Eduardo Miranda) | 194 | |||||
The Posthuman at Home (Hallvard Haug) | 195 | |||||
“Sounds of Space” Workshop (Paweł Frelik) | 198 | |||||
Who Originated the Term “Chronoclasm”? (David Ketterer) | 199 | |||||
A Feminist Utopia for Annie Denton Cridge? (Taryne Jade Taylor) | 200 | |||||
SFS Symposium at the 2013 Eaton/SFRA Conference (SFS editors) | 203 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 204 | |||||
#120 | Volume 40 | Part 2 | July 2013 | Alan C. Elms | Building Alpha Ralpha Boulevard | 209 |
David M. Higgins | Psychic Decolonization in 1960s Science Fiction | 228 | ||||
Carter F. Hanson | Memory’s Offspring and Utopian Ambiguity in Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Day Before the Revolution” and The Dispossessed | 246 | ||||
Jaak Tomberg | On the “Double Vision” of Realism and SF Estrangement in William Gibson’s BIGEND TRILOGY | 263 | ||||
Arthur B. Evans | The Apocalyptic Science Fiction of Jacques Spitz | 286 | ||||
Andrea L. Bell | The Critique of Chilean Industrialization in Hugo Correa’s Avatar Stories | 301 | ||||
M. Elizabeth Ginway | A Paradigm of the Tropical: Brazil in Contemporary Anglo-American Science Fiction and Fantasy | 316 | ||||
Umberto Rossi | Valerio Evangelisti: The Italian Way to Slipstream | 335 | ||||
REVIEW-ESSAYS | ||||||
Neil Easterbrook | Cognitive Estrangement is Us: Youngquist’s Cyberfiction After the Future | 364 | ||||
John Huntington | Future Wars: Krome’s An Anthology of Science Fiction War Stories, 1914-1945 and Seed’s Future Wars | 368 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
Allen/Williams’s Afterimages of Slavery (Isiah Lavender III) | 373 | |||||
Atwood’s In Other Worlds (Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.) | 374 | |||||
Bould’s Science Fiction (Steven Shapiro) | 376 | |||||
Brooke’s Strange Divisions and Alien Territories (Jerome Winter) | 378 | |||||
Dick’s The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick (Umberto Rossi) | 379 | |||||
Layton’s The Humanism of Dr. Who (Elizabeth Lundberg) | 382 | |||||
Lindow’s Le Guin and Moral Development (Stina Attebery) | 384 | |||||
Miller/Van Riper’s 1950s “Rocketman” TV Series and Their Fans: Cadets, Rangers, and Junior Space Men (Lincoln Geraghty) | 385 | |||||
Otto’s SF and Transformative Environmentalism (Gerry Canavan) | 387 | |||||
Scheerbart’s Lesabéndio, trans. Svendsen. (William B. Fischer) | 389 | |||||
Sellars/O’Hara’s Interviews with J.G. Ballard (Umberto Rossi) | 391 | |||||
Books Received | 394 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
Another Look at Leinster’s “Four Little Ships” (Edward Wysocki) | 396 | |||||
Response from the Author (Thomas Barrett) | 398 | |||||
Corrections (Rob Latham and Sherryl Vint) | 398 | |||||
Octavia E. Butler Celebration (Nalo Hopkinson) | 399 | |||||
2014 PKD Festival (Umberto Rossi) | 401 | |||||
Stanley Kubrick Returns to LA (Pedro Groppo) | 401 | |||||
2013-14 Mullen Fellows Announced (Rob Latham) | 402 | |||||
2013 New Genre Army Conference (Christos Callow Jr.) | 403 | |||||
Women and Science Fiction (Joan Gordon) | 404 | |||||
ICFA 2013 (Stina Attebery) | 404 | |||||
Eaton/SFRA 2013 | 405 | |||||
Biohacking and Synthetic Biology (Karin Tybjerg and Louis Whiteley) | 406 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 410 | |||||
#121 | Volume 40 | Part 3 | November 2013 | Essays on Stanisław Lem's Summa Technologiae | ||
N. Katherine Hayles | Stanisław Lem’s Summa Technologiae: Mirror Text to The Cyberiad | 417 | ||||
David Wittenberg | Indecision and Splendid Excess: Analogies of Evolution in Stanisław Lem’s Summa Technologiae | 428 | ||||
Paweł Frelik | Stanisław Lem’s Summa Technologiae as Impossible Utopia | 439 | ||||
Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. | The Summa and the Fiction | 451 | ||||
ARTICLES | ||||||
Mariano Martín Rodríguez | Longing for the Empire? Modernist Lost-Race Fictions and the Dystopian Mode in Spain | 463 | ||||
Eileen McGinnis | Remediated Readers: Gender and Literacy in Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age | 480 | ||||
Jonathan Newell | Abject Cyborgs: Discursive Boundaries and the Remade in China Miéville’s Iron Council | 496 | ||||
Stephen Dougherty | The Dangerous Rays of the Future: Democracy, Media, Science Fiction | 510 | ||||
REVIEW-ESSAYS | ||||||
Stephen Dougherty | The Self Is a Reader, The Reader a Time Traveler: Wittenberg’s Time Travel | 529 | ||||
Arthur B. Evans | Good News from France: Vas-Deyres’s Ces Français qui ont écrit demain, Bréan’s La Science-fiction en France, Fondanèche’s La Littérature d’imagination scientifique | 534 | ||||
Paweł Frelik | How We Think When We Think About Science Fiction: Hayles’s How We Think | 540 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
Adams’s Exploring Invented Languages and Rogers’s A Dictionary of Made-Up Languages (Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.) | 546 | |||||
Baxter/Wymer’s J.G. Ballard (Taylor Evans) | 549 | |||||
Butler’s Science Fiction in the 1970s (David M. Higgins) | 551 | |||||
Capanna’s Cordwainer Smith (Carol McGuirk) | 553 | |||||
Lavigne’s Cyberpunk Women, Feminism, and SF (Rebecca Holden) | 555 | |||||
McAvan’s The Postmodern Sacred (Matthew J. Bond) | 558 | |||||
Macdonald/Bleiler/Donovan’s Political Future Fiction (David Seed) | 559 | |||||
McNally’s Monsters of the Market (Sherryl Vint) | 562 | |||||
Milner’s Locating Science Fiction (John Rieder) | 564 | |||||
Seed’s The Atomic Bomb and Cold War Narratives (Pedro Groppo) | 568 | |||||
Stiles’s Popular Fiction and Brain Science (Lorenzo Servitje) | 570 | |||||
Walter’s New Translation of Verne’s Sphinx (Arthur B. Evans) | 572 | |||||
Books Received | 576 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
International Science Fiction Symposium in Japan (Pat Murphy et al.) | 579 | |||||
Communiqués from the First and Second International Science Fiction Symposia (Brian Aldiss et al.) | 581 | |||||
Slavic Science Fiction in the Slavic Review (Anindita Banerjee) | 584 | |||||
Imagine Local: A New Kind of Science Fiction Convention (Katharine Kittredge and Elizabeth Bleicher) | 584 | |||||
Speculative Visions of Race, Technology, Science, & Survival (Tamara Ho) | 589 | |||||
SF and Technoculture Studies (Rob Latham and Sherryl Vint) | 592 | |||||
A Celebration of Doctor Who (Paul Booth) | 593 | |||||
Current Research in Speculative Fictions (Chris Pak and Michelle Yost) | 594 | |||||
Memory Palace (Mark Bould) | 596 | |||||
The Spirit of Utopia (Andrew M. Butler) | 598 | |||||
New Acquisition at the Eaton (Melissa Conway) | 600 | |||||
Frederik Pohl (SFS Editors) | 600 | |||||
Volume Index | 601 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 607 | |||||
#122 | Volume 41 | Part 1 | March 2014 | Brian J. McAllister | “You’ll remember Mercury”: The Avant-Garde Worlds of Edwin Morgan’s SF Poetry | 1 |
George M. Johnson | Evil is in the Eye of the Beholder: Threatening Children in Two Edwardian Speculative Satires | 26 | ||||
Andrew Lison | “The very idea of place”: Form, Contingency, and Adornian Volition in The Man in the High Castle | 45 | ||||
Carl Gutiérrez-Jones | Stealing Kinship: Neuromancer and Artificial Intelligence | 69 | ||||
Nicholas Serruys | Revisiting and Revising History through Subjectivity in Élisabeth Vonarburg’s BRIDGE CYCLE | 93 | ||||
Sean McQueen | Biocapitalism and Schizophrenia: Rethinking the Frankenstein Barrier | 120 | ||||
Aaron Santesso | Fascism and Science Fiction | 136 | ||||
Ewa Mazierska and Eva Näripea | Gender Discourse in Eastern European SF Cinema | 163 | ||||
REVIEW-ESSAYS | ||||||
Andrew Ferguson | Unearthing the Shaver Mysteries: Nadis’s Ray Palmer’s Amazing Pulp Journey and Toronto’s Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer and the Strangest Chapter of 1940s Science Fiction | 181 | ||||
Wendy Gay Pearson | Sex-as-Discourse vs. Sex-as-Practice: Ginn and Cornelius’s Essays on the Carnal Side of Science Fiction | 191 | ||||
Jaymee Goh Sook Yi | Steaming into the Retro-Future: Taddeo and Miller’s A Steampunk Anthology | 197 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
Attebery/Hollinger’s Parabolas of Science Fiction (Elana Gomel) | 203 | |||||
Banerjee’s We Modern People: Science Fiction and the Making of Russian Modernity (Mike Davis) | 206 | |||||
Blaim’s English Utopian Fictions, 1516-1800 (Patrick Parrinder) | 210 | |||||
Coelsch-Foisner/Herbe’s New Directions in the European Fantastic (Paweł Frelik) | 212 | |||||
Condry’s The Soul of Anime (Takayuki Tatsumi) | 215 | |||||
Croft’s Lois McMaster Bujold (Rebecca Holden) | 217 | |||||
Gaillard/Goffi/Roukhomovsky/Roux’s L’Automate: Modèle Métaphor Machine Merveille (Marie-Hélène Huet) | 219 | |||||
Grebowicz/Merrick’s Adventures with Donna Haraway (Joan Gordon) | 220 | |||||
Holden/Shawl’s Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler (Gerry Canavan) | 223 | |||||
Miller’s Exploring the Limits of the Human (Graham J. Murphy) | 225 | |||||
Smith’s John Brunner (Jeffrey Hicks) | 227 | |||||
First English Translation of Jules Verne’s Travel Scholarships (Paul Alkon) | 229 | |||||
Books Received | 231 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
Frederik Pohl, 1919-2013 (Rob Latham) | 233 | |||||
D.C. Art Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER) on SF (Alana Quinn) | 233 | |||||
Writing Another Future: SF, the Arts and Humanities (Brandon Jones) | 236 | |||||
Conference on the Posthuman (Francesca Ferrando) | 238 | |||||
News from the South (Diego Samuelle Guillén) | 241 | |||||
The David Hartwell ’63 SF Symposium (Paul Park) | 241 | |||||
Adapting (to) Philip K. Dick’s Perceptual Play (Rubén Mendoza) | 242 | |||||
On Tomberg on William Gibson’s BIGEND TRILOGY (David Ketterer) | 247 | |||||
Author’s Response (Jaak Tomberg) | 248 | |||||
Corrigenda (Franz Rottensteiner, Jordana Rosenberg) | 252 | |||||
CFP: SF/F Now and Irradiating the Object: M. John Harrison at Warwick University (Mark Bould) | 252 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 254 | |||||
#123 | Volume 41 | Part 2 | July 2014 | The 2013 SFS Symposium: SF Media(tions) | ||
Rob Latham | Introduction | 257 | ||||
Mark Bould | Of Eight Oscillations and Several Messages Carved in Flesh: Spectacle, Spectatorship, Cognition, and Affect in Dredd and Looper | 258 | ||||
Vivian Sobchack | Sci-Why? On the Decline of a Film Genre in an Age of Technological Wizardry | 284 | ||||
Istvan Csicsery-Ronay | The Eye of Gort | 301 | ||||
ARTICLES | ||||||
Amy J. Ransom | The First Last Man: Cousin de Grainville’s Le Dernier homme | 314 | ||||
Justin Prystash | Sexual Futures: Feminism and Speculative Fiction in the Fin de Siècle | 341 | ||||
Adam Głaz | Rorschach, We Have a Problem! The Linguistics of First Contact in Watts’s Blindsight and Lem’s His Master’s Voice | 364 | ||||
James Pulizzi | Language After Humans: On the Disembodied Language of Joseph McElroy’s Plus | 392 | ||||
Jacob Emery | A Clone Playing Craps Will Never Abolish Chance: Randomness and Fatality in Vladimir Sorokin’s Clone Fictions | 410 | ||||
REVIEW-ESSAYS | ||||||
Jerome Winter | All Hail the Slide-Rule? Clareson/Sanders’s The Heritage of Heinlein, Herbe’s Characters in New British Hard Science Fiction, and Slusser’s Gregory Benford | 436 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
Colebrook/Cox’s The Transgressive Iain Banks (Stephen Dougherty) | 443 | |||||
Everett/Roman’s Time Travel and Warp Drives (David Wittenberg) | 445 | |||||
Geppert’s Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century (De Witt Douglas Kilgore) | 447 | |||||
McGrath’s The J.G. Ballard Book (Pedro Groppo) | 450 | |||||
Orthia’s Doctor Who and Race (Stina Attebery) | 452 | |||||
Polcini’s Oltre la fantascienza: Paradigmi e intertestualità nella narrative di J.G. Ballard (Umberto Rossi) | 454 | |||||
Sims’s Tech Anxiety: Artificial Intelligence and Ontological Awakening in Four Science Fíction Novels (M. Keith Booker) | 456 | |||||
Wagner’s The Scientist as God: A Typological Study of a Literary Motif, 1818 to the Present (Colin Drumm) | 458 | |||||
Westfahl’s William Gibson (Michael M. Levy) | 460 | |||||
Books Received | 462 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
Imaging Alternatives (Josh Pearson) | 464 | |||||
ICFA-235 (Graham J. Murphy) | 464 | |||||
“Embattled Heavens” Conference (Paweł Frelik) | 466 | |||||
Forgotten Spaces 2013 (Mark Bould) | 467 | |||||
Science Fiction: New Death (Chris Pak) | 469 | |||||
New Journal (Sean Redmond) | 473 | |||||
Corrigenda (Rob Latham) | 473 | |||||
John Wyndham’s “The Living Lies” in Other Worlds (David Ketterer) | 473 | |||||
John B. Harris’s Mars Rover on Earth (David Ketterer) | 474 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 476 | |||||
#124 | Volume 41 | Part 3 | November 2014 | ARTICLES | ||
Grzegorz Trêbicki | Supragenological Types of Fiction versus Contemporary Non-Mimetic Literature | 481 | ||||
Jonathan Alexander | Aesthetics and Artificiality from À Rebours to Avatar: Some Varieties of the Virtual since 1884 | 502 | ||||
Andrew Pilsch | Self-Help Supermen: The Politics of Fan Utopias in World War II-Era Science Fiction | 524 | ||||
Andrew Ferguson | R.A. Lafferty’s Escape from Flatland; or, How to Build a World in Three Easy Steps | 543 | ||||
Steffen Hantke | Star Trek’s Mirror Universe Episodes and US Military Culture through the Eyes of the Other | 562 | ||||
Malisa Kurtz | Nomadic Figurations: Reorienting the Colonial Gaze in Ian McDonald | 579 | ||||
Stephen Dougherty | Adam Roberts’s Alien Invasion | 597 | ||||
Rhys Williams | Recognizing Cognition: On Suvin, Miéville, and the Utopian Impulse of the Contemporary Fantastic | 617 | ||||
REVIEW-ESSAYS | ||||||
Rudi Kraeher | Neoliberalism, Posthumanism, and Memory in Latin American SF and Technoculture Studies: Ginway and Brown’s Latin America Science Fiction: Theory and Practice | 634 | ||||
Marie-Hélène Huet | Art, Bricolage, and Engineering at the End of the World: Williams’s The Triumph of Human Empire | 642 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
Bould’s “Africa SF” in Paradoxa (Jalondra Davis Brown) | 650 | |||||
Chilese/Preußer’s Technik in Dystopien (Peter Seyferth) | 653 | |||||
Gomel’s Narrative Space and Time (Stephen Dougherty) | 655 | |||||
Jones’s Gothic Machine: Textualities, Pre-cinematic Media and Film in Popular Visual Culture, 1670-1910 (Mackenzie Gregg) | 658 | |||||
Gulyas’s Extraterrestrials and the American Zeitgeist (Laura Thursby) | 660 | |||||
Huet’s The Culture of Disaster (Roger Luckhurst) | 662 | |||||
Krementsov’s Revolutionary Experiments: The Quest for Immortality in Bolshevik Science and Fiction (Anindita Banerjee) | 664 | |||||
LaGrandeur’s Androids and Intelligent Networks in Early Modern Literature and Culture (Deborah Willis) | 667 | |||||
Newell/Lamont’s Judith Merril: A Critical Study and George’s Gendering Science Fiction Films: Invaders from the Suburbs (Stina Attebery) | 670 | |||||
Smyrniw’s Ukranian Science Fiction (Brittany Roberts) | 674 | |||||
Smith’s Globalization, Utopia, and Postcolonial Science Fiction: New Maps of Hope (Jerome Winter) | 676 | |||||
O’Driscoll’s Translation of Verne’s Golden Danube (Arthur B. Evans) | 678 | |||||
Wieser/C.Zolles/Feik/M.Zolles/Schlöndorff’s Abendländische Apokalyptik (Lars Schmeink) | 681 | |||||
Books Received | 683 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
UCR Awarded Sawyer Seminar Fellowship (Sherryl Vint, Nalo Hopkinson, Rob Latham) | 686 | |||||
Eaton Collection Receives $3.5 Million Donation (Rob Latham) | 687 | |||||
Enhanced Mullen Fellowships (Sherryl Vint) | 688 | |||||
R.U.R. (Alana Quinn) | 688 | |||||
New Approaches to SF Criticism (Rebekah Sheldon) | 689 | |||||
French SF Conference (Sherryl Vint) | 690 | |||||
2014 Pilgrim Award (Roger Luckhurst, Lisa Yaszek, Craig Jacobsen) | 691 | |||||
Edgeland Futurism in San Diego (Nalo Hopkinson) | 692 | |||||
Panel on Italian SF (Giulia Iannuzzi) | 693 | |||||
Wyndham’s Martian Rover (David Ketterer) | 694 | |||||
Corrigenda (Rob Latham) | 695 | |||||
Variorum Moreau Available (Robert Philmus) | 695 | |||||
Volume Index | 696 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 701 | |||||
#125 | Volume 42 | Part 1 | March 2015 | ARTICLES | ||
Graham J. Murphy | Archivization and the Archive-as-Utopia in H.G. Wells’s The First Men in the Moon and “The Empire of the Ants” | 1 | ||||
Steven Mollmann | Air-Ships and the Technological Revolution: Detached Violence in George Griffith and H.G. Wells | 20 | ||||
Ian Campbell | Science Fiction and Social Criticism in Morocco of the 1970s: Muhammad `Azîz Lahbâbî’s The Elixir of Life | 42 | ||||
N. Katherine Hayles | Greg Egan’s Quarantine and Teranesia: Contributions to the Millennial Reassessment of Consciousness and the Cognitive Nonconscious | 56 | ||||
Joseph P. Weakland | “Forked Tongues”: Languages of Estrangement in China Miéville’s Embassytown | 78 | ||||
J.P. Telotte | The Empire’s New Robots | 99 | ||||
Brian Baker | “Here on the Outside”: Mobility and Bio-politics in Michael Winterbottom’s Code 46 | 115 | ||||
Nidesh Lawtoo | Avatar Simulation in 3Ts: Techne, Trance, Transformation | 132 | ||||
REVIEW-ESSAYS | ||||||
Carol McGuirk | God in a Yellow Bathrobe: Patterson’s Robert A. Heinlein in Dialogue with his Century. Volume 2. 1948-88 | 151 | ||||
Patricia Melzer | Future Sex and Power? Call’s BDSM in American Science Fiction and Fantasy | 158 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
Adler’s Physics and Math in Science Fiction (Gregory Benford) | 163 | |||||
Attebery’s Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth (Michael Levy) | 164 | |||||
Brittain’s Eduardo Paolozzi at New Worlds (Andrew M. Butler) | 166 | |||||
Evans’s Vintage Visions: Essays on Early Science Fiction (Adam Roberts) | 170 | |||||
Fritzsche’s The Liverpool Companion to World SF Film (J.P. Telotte) | 173 | |||||
Höglund’s The American Imperial Gothic (Liz Gumm) | 176 | |||||
Hottois’s Généalogies Philosophique, Politique et Imaginaire de la Techoscience (Annabelle Dolidon) | 178 | |||||
Londero’s Futuro Esquecido: A Recepção da Ficção Cyberpunk na América Latina (Pedro Groppo) | 181 | |||||
Raulerson’s Singularities: Technoculture, Transhumanism, and Science Fiction in the 21st Century (Veronica Hollinger) | 182 | |||||
Smith’s Conversations with William Gibson (Graham J. Murphy) | 185 | |||||
Telotte’s Science Fiction TV (Brooks Landon) | 187 | |||||
Vint’s Science Fiction: A Guide for the Perplexed (Grace L. Dillon) | 191 | |||||
Books Received | 193 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
Israeli SF Anthology (Sheldon Teitelbaum) | 197 | |||||
Irradiating the Object and SF/F Now (Chris Pak) | 197 | |||||
Call for Papers: SF and the Subj ect of South Asia (Joan Gordon) | 202 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 204 | |||||
#126 | Volume 42 | Part 2 | July 2015 | SPECIAL ISSUE ON ITALIAN SCIENCE FICTION | ||
Arielle Saiber and Umberto Rossi | Introduction: Italian SF: Dark Matter or Black Hole? | 209 | ||||
Salvatore Proietti | The Field of Italian SF | 217 | ||||
Symposium on Italian SF | 232 | |||||
Valerio Evangelisti | Science Fiction: A Narrative in Line With the Times | 245 | ||||
Domenico Gallo | Fantascienza Outside the Ghetto: The Science-Fictional Writings of Italian Mainstream Authors | 251 | ||||
Roberta Mori | Worlds of “Un-knowledge”: Dystopian Patterns in Primo Levi’s Short Stories | 274 | ||||
Luca Somigli | My Name Is Pantera: On Valerio Evangelisti’s “Slipstream” Western Fiction | 292 | ||||
Simone Brioni | Fantahistorical vs. Fantafascist Epic: “Contemporary” Alternative Italian Colonial Histories | 305 | ||||
Eliot Chayt | Revisiting Italian Post-Neorealist SF Cinema (1963-74) | 322 | ||||
Robert Rushing | The Weight of History: Immunity and the Nation in Italian SF Cinema | 339 | ||||
Arielle Saiber and Salvatore Proietti | A Selection of Italian SF Novels and Short Stories Translated and Published in English | 353 | ||||
REVIEW-ESSAYS | ||||||
Felice Beneduce | Progress and Reaction in Early Italian SF: A New Translation of Paolo Mantegazza’s The Year 3000: A Dream | 357 | ||||
Paweł Frelik | Greener Than You Think: Canavan and Robinson’s Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction | 361 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
Burnham’s Greg Egan (Graham J. Murphy) | 366 | |||||
Chapman/Cull’s SF and Popular Cinema (Sonja Fritzsche) | 369 | |||||
Clarke’s Neocybernetics and Narrative (Walter Merryman) | 371 | |||||
Germaná/Mousoutzanis’s Apocalyptic Discourse in Contemporary Culture (Malisa Kurtz) | 373 | |||||
Gomel’s Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism (Seo-Young Chu) | 376 | |||||
Hrotic’s Religion in Science Fiction (Gerry Canavan) | 378 | |||||
Kakoudaki’s Anatomy of a Robot (Lisa Swanstrom) | 380 | |||||
Kerman/Browning’s The Fantastic in Holocaust Literature and Film (Elana Gomel) | 383 | |||||
Kincaid’s Call and Response (Gary K. Wolfe) | 386 | |||||
McGrath’s Deep Ends: The J.G. Ballard Anthology 2014 (Michael Jarvis) | 388 | |||||
McMillan’s Orbiting Ray Bradbury’s Mars (Paris Brown) | 390 | |||||
Ranisch/Sorgner’s Post- and Transhumanism (Hallvard Haug) | 391 | |||||
Vas-Deyres/Bergeron/Guay/Plet-Nicolas/André’s Les Dieux cachés de la science-fiction française et francophone (1950-2010) (Arthur B. Evans) | 395 | |||||
Books Received | 398 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
George Edgar Slusser (1939-2014) (Arthur B. Evans) | 400 | |||||
ICFA 36 (Graham Hall) | 400 | |||||
The Mimetic, Hermetic, and Apocalyptic (David Ketterer) | 401 | |||||
Aesthetics, Artificiality, and Virtuality in SF (David Ketterer) | 405 | |||||
Howell Davies and John Wyndham (David Ketterer) | 405 | |||||
2015-2016 Mullen Fellowships (Sherryl Vint) | 408 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 410 | |||||
#127 | Volume 42 | Part 3 | November 2015 | J.P. Telotte | Animation, Modernism, and the Science Fiction Imagination | 417 |
Adam Stock | The Blind Logic of Plants: Enlightenment and Evolution in John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids | 433 | ||||
Słavomir Kozioł | “Those Clunky Things You Have to Carry Around”: Textual Materiality in Vernor Vinge’s Rainbows End | 458 | ||||
Chuck Robinson | Minority and Becoming-Minor in Octavia Butler’s Fledgling | 483 | ||||
Scott Selisker | “Stutter-Stop Flash-Bulb Strange”: GMOs and the Aesthetics of Scale in Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl | 500 | ||||
Hua Li | The Political Imagination in Liu Cixin’s Critical Utopia: China 2185 | 519 | ||||
Ian Campbell | Prefiguring Egypt’s Arab Spring: Allegory and Allusion in Ahmad Khâlid Tawfîq’s Utopia | 541 | ||||
REVIEW-ESSAYS | ||||||
Arthur B. Evans | Culminating a Decade of Scholarship on Jules Verne: Noiset’s New Translation of The Self-Propelled Island, Taves’s Hollywood Presents Jules Verne, and Butcher’s Jules Verne inédit: les manuscrits déchiffrés | 557 | ||||
John Rieder | Utopia, SF, and the Ideology of Form: Moylan’s Demand the Impossible (2nd ed.), Tally Jr.’s Utopia in the Age of Globalization, and Wegner’s Essays on Science Fiction, Globalization, and Utopia | 566 | ||||
David M. Higgins | The Cutting Edges of SF Scholarship: Bould/Williams’s SF Now | 574 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
Eller’s Ray Bradbury Unbound (Ezekiel Crago) | 583 | |||||
Grace’s The Science Fiction of Phyllis Gotlieb (Adam Guzkowski) | 585 | |||||
Lavender III’s Black and Brown Planets (Graham Hall) | 587 | |||||
Link/Canavan’s The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction (Carl Freedman) | 590 | |||||
Milburn’s Mondo Nano (Paweł Frelik) | 593 | |||||
Montross’s Science Fiction, Space Travel, and Postwar Art of the Americas (Rob Latham) | 597 | |||||
Shanahan’s Philosophy and BLADE RUNNER (Jeffrey Hicks) | 599 | |||||
Tanaka’s Apocalypse in Japanese Science Fiction (Peter Y. Paik) | 601 | |||||
Weinstock’s The Works of Tim Burton (Sean Matharoo) | 604 | |||||
Books Received | 606 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
Sawyer Seminar Year Begins at UCR (Sherryl Vint) | 609 | |||||
The SF Music of Steve Reich (Conor Reid) | 610 | |||||
Tracing the New Wave (Michael Butterworth) | 612 | |||||
Triffid Alley (David Ketterer) | 613 | |||||
CFP: H.G. Wells Society (Paul Malcolm Allen) | 613 | |||||
UCR Hires New SF Librarian (Alison Scott) | 614 | |||||
Volume Index | 615 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 620 | |||||
#128 | Volume 43 | Part 1 | March 2016 | Digital Science Fiction(s) | ||
Paweł Frelik | Introduction: Digital Science Fiction(s) | 1-3 | ||||
Symposium on Digital Science Fiction | 4-13 | |||||
Lisa Swanstrom | External Memory Drives: Deletion and Digitality in Agrippa (A Book of The Dead) | 14-32 | ||||
Rebekah Sheldon | Spectrum Orders: Digital Science Fiction and the Corrected Present | 33-50 | ||||
David M. Higgins | Dreams of Accumulation: The Economics of SF Video Games | 51-66 | ||||
Lars Schmeink | “Scavenge, Slay, Survive”: The Zombie Apocalypse, Exploration, and Lived Experience inDayZ | 67-84 | ||||
Lorenzo Servitje | H5N1 for Angry Birds: Plague Inc. , Mobile Games, and the Biopolitics of Outbreak Narratives | 85-103 | ||||
Keren Omry | Bodies and Digital Discontinuities: Posthumanism, Fractals, and Popular Music in theDigital Age | 104-122 | ||||
Mark Young | Digital Aurality and the Science-fictional Public Sphere | 123-139 | ||||
REVIEW-ESSAYS | ||||||
Umberto Rossi | Review: Centrifugal Interpretations | 145-152 | ||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
Review: Transhistorical Symmetries (Justin Cosner) | 153-154 | |||||
Review: A Fruitful Miscellany (David Wittenberg) | 157-159 | |||||
Review: Lofty Legacies (Alan Lovegreen) | 159-160 | |||||
Review: A Valuable Reprint from Italy (Salvatore Proietti) | 160-163 | |||||
Review: The Psychopathology of Postwar SF (Anthony Enns) | 163-167 | |||||
Review: Possible Worlds (Francisco J. López Arias) | 171-172 | |||||
Books Received | 178-180 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
Sawyer Seminar on Alternative Futurisms at UC Riverside (Brian Hudson) | 181-182 | |||||
Radical Politics, Recent Exhibitions, and Utopianism Now (Rhys Williams) | 183-187 | |||||
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Conference Report (Stina Attebery) | 187-188 | |||||
Notes on Contributors | 189-190 | |||||
#129 | Volume 43 | Part 2 | July 2016 | The 2015 SFS Symposium: Retrofuturism | 193 | |
Arthur B. Evans | Anachronism in Early French Futuristic Fiction | 194-206 | ||||
Rachel Haywood Ferreira | How Latin America Saved the World and Other Forgotten Futures | 207-225 | ||||
Paweł Frelik | Gazing (Back) in Wonder: Visual Megatext and Forgotten Ocularies of Science Fiction | 226-236 | ||||
Patrick Whitmarsh | “Imagine You're a Machine”: Narrative Systems in Peter Watts's Blindsight and Echopraxia | 237-259 | ||||
Andrew Rose | The Unknowable Now: Passionate Science and Transformative Politics in Kim StanleyRobinson's Science in the Capital Trilogy | 260-286 | ||||
Paul Mountfort | The I Ching and Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle | 287-309 | ||||
Gerry Canavan | “A Dread Mystery, Compelling Adoration”: Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker, and Totality | 310-330 | ||||
Cameron Awkward-Rich | The Fiction of Ethnography in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland | 331-350 | ||||
REVIEW-ESSAYS | ||||||
Review: Surrealism and Science Fiction (Arthur B. Evans) | 351-358 | |||||
Review: Coming to Terms with SF (David Higgins) | 359-364 | |||||
Review: A Useful Overview of SF Criticism (Michael M. Levy) | 373-376 | |||||
Review: A Groundbreaking Guide to Arab-Language SF (Salvatore Proietti) | 376-379 | |||||
Review: Transhumanism and Its Ethical Dilemmas (Annabelle Dolidon) | 390-392 | |||||
Books Received | 416-418 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts 37 (Daniel Creed) | 424-425 | |||||
#130 | Volume 43 | Part 3 | November 2016 | Indian SF | ||
Joan Gordon | Introduction: Indian Science Fiction | 433-434 | ||||
Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay | On the Mythologerm: Kalpavigyan and the Question of Imperial Science | 435-458 | ||||
Anwesha Maity | Estrangement, History, and Aesthetic Relish: A Reading of Premendra Mitra's ManuDwadosh | 459-478 | ||||
Sami Ahmad Khan | The Others in India's Other Futures | 479-495 | ||||
Suparno Banerjee | Crossing the Border: The Depiction of India in Ian McDonald's River of Gods andCyberabad Days | 496-513 | ||||
Eric D. Smith | Universal Love and Planetary Ontology in Vandana Singh's Of Love and Other Monsters | 514-533 | ||||
Malisa Kurtz | “Alternate Cuts”: An Interview with Vandana Singh | 534-545 | ||||
REVIEW-ESSAYS | ||||||
Review: Playing Dice with the Universe (Amy Ransom) | 553-562 | |||||
Review: Possibilities for a Science-Fiction Cinema (Sherryl Vint) | 563-572 | |||||
BOOKS IN REVIEW | ||||||
Review: SF as Social Theory (Rebecca Evans) | 573-575 | |||||
Review: The Power of Fabulation (Steven Shaviro) | 575-577 | |||||
Review: Obsession and the Aca-Fan (Benjamin Robertson) | 595-597 | |||||
Review: The Unknown Lem (Brittany Roberts) | 598-601 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
CFPs and a Farewell to an SFS Editor | 616 | |||||
#131 | Volume 44 | Part 1 | March 2017 | Thomas Strychacz | The Political Economy of Potato Farming in Andy Weir's The Martian | 1-20 |
Stephanie Peebles Tavera | Utopia, Inc.: A Manifesto for the Cyborg Corporation | 21-42 | ||||
Ian Campbell | False Gods and Libertarians: Artificial Intelligence and Community in Aḥmad 'Abd al-Salāmal-Baqqāli's The Blue Flood and Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress | 43-64 | ||||
Robert Yeates | Urban Decay and Sexual Outlaws in the Blade Runner Universe | 65-83 | ||||
Sara Martín | The Antipatriarchal Male Monster as Limited (Anti)Hero in Richard K. Morgan's BlackMan/Thirteen | 84-103 | ||||
Stephen Dougherty | Radio, the Genome, and Greg Bear's Biological Fiction | 104-121 | ||||
Chris Pak | “Then Came Pantropy”: Grotesque Bodies, Multispecies Flourishing, and Human-AnimalRelationships in Joan Slonczewski's A Door Into Ocean | 122-136 | ||||
Derek J. Thiess | Bodies That Remember: Historical Revision and Embodied Age in Joan Slonczewski'sChildren Star and Brain Plague | 137-158 | ||||
REVIEW-ESSAYS | ||||||
Review: A History That Repeats Itself (Robert Crossley) | 159-163 | |||||
Review: Further Deliberations on Black SF Criticism (Isiah Lavender III) | 164-171 | |||||
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE | ||||||
Calls for Papers | 203-205 | |||||
#132 | Volume 44 | Part 2 | July 2017 | Spanish SF | ||
Francisco J. López Arias | The Spanish Civil War in Spanish Alternate History: Jesús Torbado's En el día de hoy | 255-267 | ||||
Irene Sanz | Human and Nonhuman Intersections in Rosa Montero's Bruna Husky Novels | 323-330 | ||||
Sara Martín and Fernando Ángel Moreno | A Bibliography and Filmography of Spanish SF | 331-340 | ||||
REVIEW-ESSAYS | ||||||
Review: Is Virtual Reality? (Dale Knickerbocker) | 356-358 | |||||
Review: Not that Cthulhu (Miranda Butler) | 368-371 | |||||
#134 | Volume 45 | Part 1 | March 2018 | Raechel Dumas | Monstrous Motherhood and Evolutionary Horror in Contemporary Japanese Science Fiction | 24-47 |