Science Fiction Studies

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ARTICLE ABSTRACTS

• Elana Gomel. Posthuman Voices: Alien Infestation and the Poetics of Subjectivity

• Thomas M. Barrett. Heart of a Serpent? The Cold War Science Fiction of Murray Leinster

• Carl Abbott. Rocky Mountain Refuge: Constructing “Colorado” in Science Fiction

• Umberto Rossi. The Shunts in the Tale: The Narrative Architecture of Philip K. Dick’s VALIS

• Amanda Thibodeau. Alien Bodies and a Queer Future: Sexual Revision in Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild” and James Tiptree, Jr.’s “With Delicate Mad Hands”

• Andrew Hageman. The Challenge of Imagining Ecological Futures: Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl

REVIEW-ESSAYS

• Mark Bould. From Llanvihangel Crucorney and Zagreb to the Stars!: Milner’s Raymond Williams on SF, Utopias, and Dystopias and Suvin’s Essays on Utopia, SF, and Political Epistemology

• Brooks Landon. Reading the Red Planet: Crossley’s Imagining Mars and Hendrix/Slusser/Rabkin’sVisions of Mars

• Patrick A. McCarthy. Two Briefs on Science Fiction: Bould/Vint’s The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction and Seed’s Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Caroti’s The Generation Starship in Science Fiction (Michael Levy)

• New edition of De Mille’s A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (Nicholas Ruddick)

• Lavender’s Race in American Science Fiction (André Carrington)

• Lovén’s Virtual Reality in Science Fiction (Jason W. Ellis)

• McGrath’s Religion and Science Fiction (Matthew Bond)

• Saint-Gelais’s Fictions transfuges (Roger Bozzetto)

• Geetha/Amit Sarwal’s Exploring Science Fiction and Sawyer/Wright’s Teaching Science Fiction (Craig B. Jacobsen)

• Wittkower’s Philip K. Dick and Philosophy (Joshua Pearson)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• Report from the Key West Seminar (Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.)
• Conference on Global SF Cinema (Pawel Frelik)
• Correspondence: On the “Singularity Symposium” (Alan C. Elms)
• SFRA Awards for 2012 (Ritch Calvin)
• 2012-13 Mullen Fellows (Rob Latham)
• SF Magazines Online (Patrick Scott Belk)
• University of Iowa Acquires SF Collection (Greg Prickman)
• Steampunk Exhibition (Mike McGee)
• New SF Page in the Los Angeles Review of Books (Rob Latham)
• Heinlein Society Scholarships (Geo Rule)
• Calls for Papers, Upcoming Conferences and Exhibitions, etc.
• Notes on Contributors