Science Fiction Studies

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ARTICLE ABSTRACTS

• J.P. Telotte. Animation, Modernism, and the Science Fiction Imagination.

• Adam Stock. The Blind Logic of Plants: Enlightenment and Evolution in John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids.         

• Słavomir Kozioł. “Those Clunky Things You Have to Carry Around”: Textual Materiality in Vernor Vinge’s Rainbows End.

• Chuck Robinson. Minority and Becoming-Minor in Octavia Butler’s Fledgling.   

• Scott Selisker. “Stutter-Stop Flash-Bulb Strange”: GMOs and the Aesthetics of Scale in Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl.      

• Hua Li. The Political Imagination in Liu Cixin’s Critical Utopia:  China 2185.

• Ian Campbell. Prefiguring Egypt’s Arab Spring: Allegory and Allusion in Amad Khālid Tawfīq’s Utopia.
  

REVIEW-ESSAYS

• Arthur B. Evans. Culminating a Decade of Scholarship on Jules Verne: Noiset’s New Translation of The Self-Propelled Island,  Taves’s Hollywood Presents Jules Verne, andButcher’s Jules Verne inédit: les manuscrits déchiffrés.

• John Rieder. Utopia, SF, and the Ideology of Form: Moylan’s Demand the Impossible (2nd ed.), Tally Jr.’s Utopia in the Age of Globalization, and Wegner’s Essays on Science Fiction, Globalization,  and Utopia.        

• David M. Higgins. The Cutting Edges of SF Scholarship: Bould/Williams’s SF Now.           
  

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Eller’s Ray Bradbury Unbound (Ezekiel Crago)

• Grace’s The Science Fiction of Phyllis Gotlieb (Adam Guzkowski)

• Lavender III’s Black and Brown Planets (Graham Hall)  

• Link/Canavan’s The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction (Carl Freedman)

• Milburn’s Mondo Nano (Paweł Frelik) 

• Montross’s Science Fiction, Space Travel, and Postwar Art of the Americas (Rob Latham)

• Shanahan’s Philosophy and Blade Runner (Jeffrey Hicks)

• Tanaka’s Apocalypse in Japanese Science Fiction (Peter Y. Paik)   

• Weinstock's The Works of Tim Burton: Margins to Mainstream (Sean Matharoo)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• Sawyer Seminar Year Begins at UCR (Sherryl Vint)

• The SF Music of Steve Reich (Conor Reid)

• Tracing the New Wave (Michael Butterworth) 

• Triffid Alley (David Ketterer)    

• CFP: H.G. Wells Society (Paul Malcolm Allen)  

• UCR Hires New SF Librarian (Alison Scott)