Science Fiction Studies

#115 = Volume 38, Part 3 = November 2011

ESSAY

• Mike Davis. Ward Moore’s Freedom Ride.
  

ARTICLE ABSTRACTS

• Andrew Milner. Science Fiction and the Literary Field

• Charles Thorpe. Death of a Salesman: Petit-Bourgeois Dread in Philip K. Dick’s Mainstream Fiction

• Theo Finigan. “Into the Memory Hole”: Totalitarianism and Mal d’Archive in Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Handmaid’s Tale 

• Elissa Gurman. “The holy and the powerful light that shines through history”: Tradition and Technology in Marge Piercy’s He, She and It. 

• Charles Paulk. Post-National Cool: William Gibson’s Japan. 

REVIEW-ESSAYS

• Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. Sound is the New Light: Whittington’s Sound Design and Science Fiction. 

• Carl Abbott. The Imagination of Disaster, Revisited: Page’s The City’s End and Yablon’s Untimely Ruins.

• Jess Nevins. Defining Steampunk: Ashley’s Steampunk Prime, Bowser/Croxall’s “Steampunk, Science, and (Neo)Victorian Technologies,” and VanderMeers’ Steampunk II. 

• Jerome Winter. Lab Coats, Not Straitjackets: Allen’s Master Mechanics and Wicked Wizards and Kirby’s Science, Scientists, and Film 
  

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Bolton/Csicsery-Ronay, Jr./Tatsumi’s Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams (Hajime Nakatani) 

• Meehan’s The Fusion of Science Fiction and Film Noir and Botting’s Limits of Horror (Carl Freedman) 

• Bould/Butler/Roberts/Vint’s Fifty Key Figures in SF (Eric S. Rabkin)

• Cherry’s Horror (Kimberly Hall)

• Chu’s Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sheep? (John Rieder)

• Fowler/Notkin’s 80! Memories & Reflections on Ursula K. Le Guin (Elizabeth Lundberg)

• Gomel’s Postmodern Science Fiction and Temporal Imagination (Joshua Raulerson)

• Hampton’s Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler (Arianna Gremigni)

• Mendlesohn/James’s A Short History of Fantasy (Kristin Noone)

• Rich’s C.M Kornbluth (Joe Sanders)

• Thaler’s Black Atlantic Speculative Fictions (Mark Young) 

• Urbanski’s Essays on New Media Rhetoric (Lisa Yaszek)

• Books Received 

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• Campbell, “Doc” Smith, and the CIC (Edward Wysocki)
• William Wilson (Richard Bleiler) 
• Mullen Research Fellows for 2011-12 (Rob Latham) 
• “Must-Read” SF (Carol McGuirk) 
• New Associations, Conference Reports, Translation Awards, CFPs 
• Volume Index 
• Notes on Contributors
• “For-a-While”: Remembering Joanna Russ (1937-2011)

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