Science Fiction Studies #114 Out Now

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Science Fiction Studies

#114 = Volume 38, Part 2 = July 2011 ESSAY Brian W. Aldiss. Metaphysical Realism ARTICLES Kevin LaGrandeur. The Persistent Peril of the Artificial Slave Geraldine Lawless. Unknown Futures: Nineteenth-Century Science Fiction in Spain Pavla Veselá. Neither Black nor White: The Critical Utopias of Sutton E. Griggs and George S. Schuyler Thomas Van Parys. A Fantastic Voyage to Inner Space: Description in Science-Fiction Novelizations Nicholas C. Laudadio. “Sounds like a Human Performance”: The Electronic Music Synthesizer in Mid-Twentieth-Century SF REVIEW-ESSAYS Joan Gordon. Learning to Live with Animals in SF: Vint’s Animal Alterity: Science Fiction and the Question of the Animal Patrick Parrinder. The War of Wells’s Lives: Sherborne’s H.G. Wells: Another Kind of Life Gary Westfahl. A Work of Art, If Not a Masterpiece: Frank’s Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists of the Twentieth Century BOOKS IN REVIEW Billings’s M.P. Shiel, The Middle Years 1897-1923 (Susan Zieger) Bolton’s Sublime Voices: The Fictional Science and Scientific Fiction of Abe Kobo (Takayuki Tatsumi) Booker/Thomas’s The Science Fiction Handbook (Len Hatfield) Busch’s The Utopian Vision of H.G. Wells (Graham J. Murphy) Cowan’s Sacred Space: The Quest for Transcendence in Science Fiction Film and Television (Jennifer Kavetsky) Evans/Csicsery-Ronay/Gordon/Hollinger/Latham/McGuirk’s The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (Kathleen Ann Goonan) Godwin’s The Man in the Moone (Patrick B. Sharp) Jones’s Essays and Talks on Fiction, Feminism, Technology, and Politics (David M. Higgins)   Mendlesohn’s On Joanna Russ (Ritch Calvin) Pintér’s The Anatomy of Utopia: Narration, Estrangement and Ambiguity in More, Wells, Huxley and Clarke (Amy J. Ransom) Tabachnick’s Teaching the Graphic Novel (Paul Rosa) Westfahl’s Islands in the Sky: The Space Station Theme in Science Fiction Literature (Neil Easterbrook) Yi’s Aesthetics and Ethics in the Age of Postmodernism (Paweł Frelik) NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE “For-a-While”: Remembering Joanna Russ (1937-2011)  Suburbia and the Dual City in The Iron Heel (Carl Abbott) John Wyndham and Octavia Butler (David Ketterer) The Trouble with Samuel Delany’s Pornography (Michael Hemmingson) Louis Armstrong: Secret SF Fan? (Barbara Bengels) Conferences, Calls for Papers, Corrections Notes on Contributors