Science Fiction Studies No. 119 for March 2013

Forever catching up:

Science Fiction Studies

#119 = Volume 40, Part 1 = March 2013

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ARTICLES SPECIAL ISSUE ON CHINESE SCIENCE FICTION (Edited by Yan Wu and Veronica Hollinger)

• Yan Wu. “Great Wall Planet”: Introducing Chinese Science Fiction

• Han Song. Chinese Science Fiction: A Response to Modernization

• Liu Cixin. Beyond Narcissism: What Science Fiction Can Offer Literature

• Nathaniel Isaacson. Science Fiction for the Nation: Tales of the Moon Colony and the Birth of Modern Chinese Fiction

• Shaoling Ma. “A Tale of New Mr. Braggadocio”: Narrative Subjectivity and Brain Electricity in Late Qing Science Fiction

• Lisa Raphals. Alterity and Alien Contact in Lao She’s Martian Dystopia, Cat Country

• Mingwei Song. Variations on Utopia in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction

• Jia Liyuan. Gloomy China: China’s Image in Han Song’s Science Fiction

• Qian Jiang. Translation and the Development of Science Fiction in Twentieth-Century China

• Wei Yang. Voyage into an Unknown Future: A Genre Analysis of Chinese SF Film in the New Millennium                
  

REVIEW-ESSAYS

• Michael Saler. Science, the Paranormal, and Science Fiction: Cheng’s Astounding Wonder and Kripal’s Mutants and Mystics 

• Nicholas Ruddick. Unheimlich Maneuvers: Beaumont’s The Spectre of Utopia and James’s Maps of Utopia          

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Clarke’s Conversations with Jonathan Lethem and Lethem’s The Ecstasy of Influence (Paweł Frelik)

•  Gaspar’s The Time Ship: A Chrononautical Journey (David Wittenberg)

• Dillon’s Walking the Clouds (Amy Ransom)

• Murphy/Vint’s Beyond Cyberpunk (Gerry Canavan)

• Page’s The Literary Imagination from Erasmus Darwin to H.G. Wells: Science Evolution, and Ecology (Patrick Parrinder)

• Schmeink/Böger’s Collision of Realities and Schmeink/Müller’s Fremde Welten: Wege und Räume der Fantastik (Franz Rottensteiner)

• Smith’s The Journalism of H.G. Wells (John Huntington)     

• Stallings/Evans’s Murray Leinster: The Life and Works (Joe Sanders)    

• Westfahl’s The Spacesuit Film: A History, 1918-1969 (J.P. Telotte) 

• Zgorzelski’s Born of the Fantastic (Grzegorz Trźbicki)      

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• Cutting Up in der Kunsthalle (Rob Latham) 
• The Politics of Adaptation Conference (Gerry Canavan)               
• The PKD Festival in San Francisco (Umberto Rossi)         
• Tales from the British Museum (Roger Luckhurst)           
• Fi-Sci (Alexis Kirke and Eduardo Miranda)          
• The Posthuman at Home (Hallvard Haug)           
• “Sounds of Space” Workshop (Paweł Frelik)
•  Who Originated the Term “Chronoclasm”? (David Ketterer)  
• A Feminist Utopia for Annie Denton Cridge? (Taryne Jade Taylor)     
• SFS Symposium at the 2013 Eaton/SFRA Conference (SFS editors)