Extrapolation is an international, peer-reviewed journal which publishes articles and book reviews on science fiction and fantasy texts, broadly conceived.
We invite papers on all areas of speculative culture, including print, film, television, comic books and video games, and we particularly encourage papers which consider popular texts within their larger cultural context. We welcome papers from a wide variety of critical approaches including but not limited to literary criticism, utopian studies, genre criticism, feminist theory, critical race studies, queer theory, and postcolonial theory. Extrapolation promotes innovative work which considers the place of speculative texts in contemporary culture. We are interested in promoting dialogue among scholars working within a number of traditions and in encouraging the serious study of popular culture.
We are particularly interested in the following areas of study:
- Racial constructions in speculative genres
- Children's and YA sf and fantasy
- Sexualities
- Fantastic motifs in mainstream texts
- Gender and speculative texts
- History of sf and fantasy
- New weird fiction
- Remakes, rewriting and retrofitting
- Pulp sf and fantasy
- The body in speculative texts
- Posthumanism
- Political sf and fantasy
- Non-Western speculative traditions
- Technoculture
Essay Guidelines
Essays should be approximately 4000-9000 words, written according to MLA standards and include a 100 word abstract. Neither embedded footnotes nor generated footnotes that some software systems make available should be used. Electronic submissions in MS Word are encouraged. Submissions should be sent to:
- javier.a.martinez @ utb.edu
- Javier A. Martinez
Department of English
University of Texas at Brownsville
80 Fort Brown
Brownsville, TX 78520
USA
Book Review Guidelines
Book reviews should be titled. The title should reflect the theme of the review. The title of the review should appear in boldface and be placed before the bibliographic information.
Bibliographic information should be listed at the beginning of the review, including: author(s) or editor (s), complete title (in italics), publication information (including city, state and publisher), year of publication, page count (including differently paginated introduction or preface), price and form of publication (hc or pbk).
Body Consciences. Sherryl Vint. Bodies of Tomorrow: Technology, Subjectivity, Science Fiction. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. 243 pp. $50 hdbk / pbk.
Book reviews should run an average of 2,500 words.
All references to outside sources should be made in the review. Reviews should not include a works cited or notes section.
Reviews should examine critically the work in question. We do not want only a synopsis of the book and the points it makes, but rather an engagement with the ideas expressed and a judgment on both their efficacy and the author’s ability to express them.
Review essays should follow the same format as above, except that they should be no less than 4,500 words. A works cited page is allowed in the case of review essays.
If you are interested in reviewing a book for Extrapolation or if you have published a book you would like reviewed by Extrapolation, please contact:
- pmelzer @ temple.edu
Or write to:
- Patricia Melzer
Director, Women's Studies Program
Temple University
816 Anderson Hall
1114 West Berks Street
Philadelphia, PA 1912
USA.
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