Science Fiction Studies for July 2013

The latest number of Science Fiction Studies is now available. It is a mixed bag of essays, as the following contents list details. Clicking the links below will take you to abstracts for the essays. :

Science Fiction Studies

#120 = Volume 40, Part 2 = July 2013

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ARTICLES

• Alan C. Elms. Building Alpha Ralpha Boulevard 

• David M. Higgins. Psychic Decolonization in 1960s Science Fiction

• Carter F. Hanson. Memory’s Offspring and Utopian Ambiguity in Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Day Before the Revolution” and The Dispossessed

• Jaak Tomberg. On the “Double Vision” of Realism and SF Estrangement in William Gibson’s Bigend Trilogy

• Arthur B. Evans. The Apocalyptic Science Fiction of Jacques Spitz 

• Andrea L. Bell. The Critique of Chilean Industrialization in Hugo Correa’s Avatar Stories

• M. Elizabeth Ginway. A Paradigm of the Tropical: Brazil in Contemporary Anglo-American Science Fiction and Fantasy

• Umberto Rossi. Valerio Evangelisti: The Italian Way to Slipstream
  

REVIEW-ESSAYS 

• Neil Easterbrook. Cognitive Estrangement is Us: Youngquist’s Cyberfiction After the Future

• John Huntington. Future Wars: Krome’s An Anthology of Science Fiction War Stories, 1914-1945 and Seed’s Future Wars  
               

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Allen/Williams’s Afterimages of Slavery (Isiah Lavender III) 

• Atwood’sIn Other Worlds (Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.) 

• Bould’s Science Fiction (Steven Shaviro) 

• Brooke’s Strange Divisions and Alien Territories (Jerome Winter) 

• Dick’s The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick (Umberto Rossi) 

• Layton’s The Humanism of Dr. Who (Elizabeth Lundberg)

• Lindow’s Le Guin and Moral Development (Stina Attebery) 

• Miller/Van Riper’s 1950s “Rocketman” TV Series and Their Fans: Cadets, Rangers, and Junior Space Men (Lincoln Geraghty) 

• Otto’s SF and Transformative Environmentalism (Gerry Canavan) 

• Scheerbart’s Lesabéndio, trans. Svendsen. (William B. Fischer) 

• Sellars/O’Hara’s Interviews with J.G. Ballard (Umberto Rossi)  

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• Another Look at Leinster’s “Four Little Ships” (Edward Wysocki)             
• Response from the Author (Thomas Barrett)     
• Corrections (Rob Latham and Sherryl Vint)         
• Octavia E. Butler Celebration (Nalo Hopkinson)               
• 2014 PKD Festival (Umberto Rossi)         
• Stanley Kubrick Returns to LA (Pedro Groppo)
• 2013-14 Mullen Fellows Announced (Rob Latham)         
• 2013 New Genre Army Conference (Christos Callow Jr.)              
• Women and Science Fiction (Joan Gordon)        
• ICFA 2013 (Stina Attebery)         
• Eaton/SFRA 2013             
• Biohacking and Synthetic Biology (Karin Tybjerg and Louis Whiteley)