Science Fiction Studies for March 2014 Now Available

Science Fiction Studies

#122 = Volume 41, Part 1 = March 2014

ARTICLES

• Brian J. McAllister. “You’ll remember Mercury”: The Avant-Garde Worlds of Edwin Morgan’s SF Poetry  
• George M. Johnson. Evil is in the Eye of the Beholder: Threatening Children in Two Edwardian Speculative Satire     

• Andrew Lison. “The very idea of place”: Form, Contingency, and Adornian Volition in The Man in the High Castle            

• Carl Gutiérrez-Jones. Stealing Kinship: Neuromancer and Artificial Intelligence  

• Nicholas Serruys. Revisiting and Revising History through Subjectivity in Élisabeth Vonarburg’s Bridge Cycle

• Sean McQueen. Biocapitalism and Schizophrenia: Rethinking the Frankenstein Barrier Aaron Santesso. Fascism and Science Fiction

• Ewa Mazierska and Eva Näripea. Gender Discourse in Eastern European SF Cinema     

REVIEW-ESSAYS

• Andrew Ferguson. Unearthing the Shaver Mysteries: Nadis’s Ray Palmer’s Amazing Pulp Journey and Toronto’s Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer and the Strangest Chapter of 1940s Science Fiction.

• Wendy Gay Pearson. Sex-as-Discourse vs. Sex-as-Practice: Ginn and Cornelius’s Essays on the Carnal Side of Science Fiction     

• Jaymee Goh Sook Yi. Steaming into the Retro-Future: Taddeo and Miller’s A Steampunk Anthology   

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Attebery/Hollinger’s Parabolas of Science Fiction (Elana Gomel)     

• Banerjee’s We Modern People: Science Fiction and the Making of Russian Modernity (Mike Davis)   

• Blaim’s English Utopian Fictions, 1516-1800 (Patrick Parrinder)  

• Coelsch-Foisner/Herbe’s New Directions in the European Fantastic (Paweł Frelik)  

•  Condry’s The Soul of Anime (Takayuki Tatsumi)   

• Croft’s Lois McMaster Bujold (Rebecca Holden) 

• Gaillard/Goffi/Roukhomovsky/Roux’s L’Automate: Modèle Métaphor Machine Merveille (Marie-Hélène Huet)  

• Grebowicz/Merrick’s Adventures with Donna Haraway (Joan Gordon)

• Holden/Shawl’s Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler (Gerry Canavan)

• Miller’s Exploring the Limits of the Human (Graham J. Murphy)   

• Smith’s John Brunner (Jeffrey Hicks)   

• First English Translation of Jules Verne’s Travel Scholarships (Paul Alkon)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• Frederik Pohl, 1919-2013 (Rob Latham)
• D.C. Art Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER) on SF (Alana Quinn) 
• Writing Another Future: SF, the Arts and Humanities (Brandon Jones) 
• Conference on the Posthuman (Francesca Ferrando)
• News from the South (Diego Samuelle Guillén)
• The David Hartwell ’63 SF Symposium (Paul Park)           
• Adapting (to) Philip K. Dick’s Perceptual Play (Rubén Mendoza)
• On Tomberg on William Gibson’s Bigend Trilogy (David Ketterer)  
• Author’s Response (Jaak Tomberg)  
• Corrigenda (Franz Rottensteiner, Jordana Rosenberg)
• CFP: SF/F Now and Irradiating the Object: M. John Harrison at Warwick University (Mark Bould)  
• Notes on Contributor

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) 

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)