Science Fiction Studies 38.3

The latest issue (38.3) of Science Fiction Studies arrived today. Here are the contents from their website. Hyperlinks are to abstracts of each paper.

Science Fiction Studies 

#115 = Volume 38, Part 3 = November 2011 ESSAY Mike Davis. Ward Moore’s Freedom Ride ARTICLES Andrew Milner. Science Fiction and the Literary Field Charles Thorpe. Death of a Salesman: Petit-Bourgeois Dread in Philip K. Dick’s Mainstream Fiction Theo Finigan. “Into the Memory Hole”: Totalitarianism and Mal d’Archive in Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Handmaid’s Tale Elissa Gurman. “The holy and the powerful light that shines through history”: Tradition and Technology in Marge Piercy’s He, She and It Charles Paulk. Post-National Cool: William Gibson’s Japan  REVIEW-ESSAYS Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. Sound is the New Light: Whittington’s Sound Design and Science Fiction  Carl Abbott. The Imagination of Disaster, Revisited: Page’s The City’s End and Yablon’s Untimely Ruins. Jess Nevins. Defining Steampunk: Ashley’s Steampunk Prime, Bowser/Croxall’s “Steampunk, Science, and (Neo)Victorian Technologies,” and VanderMeers’ Steampunk II  Jerome Winter. Lab Coats, Not Straitjackets: Allen’s Master Mechanics and Wicked Wizards and Kirby’s Science, Scientists, and Film  BOOKS IN REVIEW Bolton/Csicsery-Ronay, Jr./Tatsumi’s Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams (Hajime Nakatani) Meehan’s The Fusion of Science Fiction and Film Noir and Botting’s Limits of Horror (Carl Freedman) Bould/Butler/Roberts/Vint’s Fifty Key Figures in SF (Eric S. Rabkin) Cherry’s Horror (Kimberly Hall) Chu’s Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sheep? (John Rieder) Fowler/Notkin’s 80! Memories & Reflections on Ursula K. Le Guin (Elizabeth Lundberg) Gomel’s Postmodern Science Fiction and Temporal Imagination (Joshua Raulerson) Hampton’s Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler (Arianna Gremigni) Mendlesohn/James’s A Short History of Fantasy (Kristin Noone) Rich’s C.M Kornbluth (Joe Sanders) Thaler’s Black Atlantic Speculative Fictions (Mark Young) Urbanski’s Essays on New Media Rhetoric (Lisa Yaszek) Books Received NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE Campbell, “Doc” Smith, and the CIC (Edward Wysocki) William Wilson (Richard Bleiler) Mullen Research Fellows for 2011-12 (Rob Latham) “Must-Read” SF (Carol McGuirk) New Associations, Conference Reports, Translation Awards, CFPs Volume Index Notes on Contributors “For-a-While”: Remembering Joanna Russ (1937-2011)