Science Fiction Studies

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ARTICLE ABSTRACTS

• Grzegorz Trębicki. Supragenological Types of Fiction versus Contemporary Non-Mimetic Literature     

• Jonathan Alexander. Aesthetics and Artificiality from À Rebours to Avatar: Some Varieties of the Virtual since 1884        

• Andrew Pilsch. Self-Help Supermen: The Politics of Fan Utopias in World War II-Era Science Fiction     

• Andrew Ferguson. R.A. Lafferty’s Escape from Flatland; or, How to Build a World in Three Easy Steps 

• Steffen Hantke. Star Trek’s Mirror Universe Episodes and US Military Culture through the Eyes of the Other

• Malisa Kurtz. Nomadic Figurations: Reorienting the Colonial Gaze in Ian McDonald       

• Stephen Dougherty. Adam Roberts’s Alien Invasion 

• Rhys Williams. Recognizing Cognition: On Suvin, Miéville, and the Utopian Impulse of the Contemporary Fantastic

 

REVIEW-ESSAYS

• Rudi Kraeher. Neoliberalism, Posthumanism, and Memory in Latin American SF and Technoculture Studies: Ginway and Brown’s Latin America Science Fiction: Theory and Practice      

• Marie-Hélène Huet. Art, Bricolage, and Engineering at the End of the World: Williams’s The Triumph of Human Empire

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Bould’s “Africa SF” in Paradoxa (Jalondra Davis Brown)              

• Chilese/Preußer’s Technik in Dystopien (Peter Seyferth)            

• Gomel’s Narrative Space and Time (Stephen Dougherty)            

• Jones’s Gothic Machine: Textualities, Pre-cinematic Media and Film in Popular Visual Culture, 1670-1910 (Mackenzie Gregg)    

• Gulyas’s Extraterrestrials and the American Zeitgeist (Laura Thursby)   

• Huet’s The Culture of Disaster (Roger Luckhurst)             

• Krementsov’s Revolutionary Experiments: The Quest for Immortality in Bolshevik Science and Fiction (Anindita Banerjee)     

• LaGrandeur’s Androids and Intelligent Networks in Early Modern Literature and Culture (Deborah Willis)         

• Newell/Lamont’s Judith Merril: A Critical Study and George’s Gendering Science Fiction Films: Invaders from the Suburbs (Stina Attebery)        

• Smyrniw’s Ukranian Science Fiction (Brittany Roberts) 

• Smith’s Globalization, Utopia, and Postcolonial Science Fiction: New Maps of Hope (Jerome Winter)

• O’Driscoll’s Translation of Verne’s Golden Danube (Arthur B. Evans)     

• Wieser/C.Zolles/Feik/M.Zolles/Schlöndorff’s Abendländische Apokalyptik (Lars Schmeink)    

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• UCR Awarded Sawyer Seminar Fellowship (Sherryl Vint, Nalo Hopkinson, Rob Latham)               
• Eaton Collection Receives $3.5 Million Donation (Rob Latham)
• Enhanced Mullen Fellowships (Sherryl Vint)     
• R.U.R. (Alana Quinn)     
• New Approaches to SF Criticism (Rebekah Sheldon)
• French SF Conference (Sherryl Vint)      
• 2014 Pilgrim Award (Roger Luckhurst, Lisa Yaszek, Craig Jacobsen)
• Edgeland Futurism in San Diego (Nalo Hopkinson)         
• Panel on Italian SF (Giulia Iannuzzi)       
• Wyndham’s Martian Rover (David Ketterer)
• Corrigenda (Rob Latham)            
• Variorum Moreau Available (Robert Philmus)

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