Science Fiction Studies for November 2013

The latest number of Science Fiction Studies arrived this week. Here are the contents from the journal's website: http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/covers/cov121.html:

Science Fiction Studies
#121 = Volume 40, Part 3 = November 2013

ESSAYS ON STANISŁAW LEM’S SUMMA TECHNOLOGIAE
Edited by Rob Latham

• N. Katherine Hayles. Stanisław Lem’s Summa Technologiae: Mirror Text to The Cyberiad

• David Wittenberg. Indecision and Splendid Excess: Analogies of Evolution in Stanisław Lem’s Summa Technologiae

• Pawel Frelik. Stanisław Lem’s Summa Technologiae as Impossible Utopia

• Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. The Summa and the Fiction

ARTICLES

• Mariano Martín Rodríguez. Longing for the Empire? Modernist Lost-Race Fictions and the Dystopian Mode in Spain

• Eileen McGinnis. Remediated Readers: Gender and Literacy in Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age

• Jonathan Newell. Abject Cyborgs: Discursive Boundaries and the Remade in China Miéville’s Iron Council

• Stephen Dougherty. The Dangerous Rays of the Future: Democracy, Media, Science Fiction

REVIEW-ESSAYS 

• Stephen Dougherty. The Self Is a Reader, The Reader a Time Traveler: Wittenberg’s Time Travel.

• Arthur B. Evans. Good News from France: Vas-Deyres’s Ces Français qui ont écrit demain , Bréan’s La Science-fiction en France , Fondanèche’s La Littérature d’imagination scientifique

• Pawel Frelik. How We Think When We Think About Science Fiction: Hayles’s How We Think

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Adams’s Exploring Invented Languages and Rogers’s A Dictionary of Made-Up Languages (Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.)

• Baxter/Wymer’s J.G. Ballard (Taylor Evans)

• Butler’s Science Fiction in the 1970s (David M. Higgins)

• Capanna’s Cordwainer Smith (Carol McGuirk)

• Lavigne’s Cyberpunk Women, Feminism, and SF (Rebecca Holden)

• McAvan’s The Postmodern Sacred (Matthew J. Bond)

• Macdonald/Bleiler/Donovan’s Political Future Fiction (David Seed)

• McNally’s Monsters of the Market (Sherryl Vint)

• Milner’s Locating Science Fiction (John Rieder)

• Seed’s The Atomic Bomb and Cold War Narratives (Pedro Groppo)

• Stiles’s Popular Fiction and Brain Science (Lorenzo Servitje)

• Walter’s New Translation of Verne’s Sphinx (Arthur B. Evans)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• International Science Fiction Symposium in Japan (Pat Murphy et al.)
• Communiqués from the First and Second International Science Fiction Symposia (Brian Aldiss et al.)
• Slavic Science Fiction in the Slavic Review (Anindita Banerjee).
• Imagine Local: A New Kind of Science Fiction Convention (Katharine Kittredge and Elizabeth Bleicher)
• Speculative Visions of Race, Technology, Science, & Survival (Tamara Ho)
• SF and Technoculture Studies (Rob Latham and Sherryl Vint)
• A Celebration of Doctor Who (Paul Booth)
• Current Research in Speculative Fictions (Chris Pak and Michelle Yost)
• Memory Palace (Mark Bould)
• The Spirit of Utopia (Andrew M. Butler)
• New Acquisition at the Eaton (Melissa Conway)