Science Fiction Studies

THE 2009 SFS SYMPOSIUM: HISTORIES OF SCIENCE FICTION

• Rob Latham. Introduction 

• Roger Luckhurst. Science Fiction and Cultural History

• De Witt Douglas Kilgore. Difference Engine: Aliens, Robots, and Other Racial Matters in the History of Science Fiction

• Veronica Hollinger. A History of the Future: Notes for an Archive 

OTHER ARTICLES

• Laurel Bollinger. Symbiogenesis, Selfhood, and Science Fiction

• Lisa Swanstrom. Capsules and Nodes and Ruptures and Flows: Circulating Subjectivity in Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash

• Robert P. Fletcher. The Hacker and the Hawker: Networked Identity in the Science Fiction and Blogging of Cory Doctorow

REVIEW-ESSAY

• Umberto Rossi. A Curate’s Egg: Baxter’s J.G. Ballard’s Surrealist Imagination: Spectacular Authorship  

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Adair’s The American Epic Novel in the Late 20th Century (Paul Kincaid)

• Barr’s Afro-Future Females (Ritch Calvin)

• Bould/Butler/Roberts/Vint’s The Routledge Companion to SF (David Seed)

• Brock’s Essays on Gothic and Victorian Sensation Fiction (Deborah Lutz)

• Colavito’s Anthology of Horror Criticism (Amy J. Ransom)

• Deuber-Mankowsky’s Lara Croft: Cyber Heroine (Sherryl Vint)

• Geraghty’s Essays on Science Fiction and Fantasy Television (J.P. Telotte)

• Grebowicz’s Reading Science Through Science Fiction (Jennifer Kavetsky)

• Gunn/Barr/Candelaria’s Reading Science Fiction (Wanda Raiford)

• Higgins’s Frankenstein: Character Studies (Elizabeth Corsun)

• Kucukalic’s Philip K. Dick (Jason Bourget)

• Luckhurst’s The Trauma Question (Tiffany Ana López)

• Mendlesohn’s Critical Study of Children’s and Teens’ SF (Kelly Meyer)

• Telotte’s The Essential Science Fiction Television Reader (Anthony Enns)

• Westfahl/Slusser’s Science Fiction and the Two Cultures (Russell Blackford)

• Walters’s Alternative Worlds in Hollywood Cinema (D. Harlan Wilson)

• Weese’s Feminist Narrative and the Supernatural (Robin Anne Reid)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• E.T.A. Hoffmann and Philip K. Dick (Ian F. Roberts)  
• I.F. Clarke (1918-2009): Farewell to Captain Future (Paul Alkon)
• Forthcoming SF Events at UC-Riverside (Rob Latham)
• New Awards for SF&F Translation (Cheryl Morgan)
• Announcing The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (SFS editors)
• Notes on Contributors