Science Fiction Studies

#88 = Volume 29, Part 3 = November 2002


SPECIAL ISSUE: JAPANESE SCIENCE FICTION

Edited by TATSUMI Takayuki, Christopher Bolton, and Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.

ARTICLES

  • Miri Nakamura. Horror and Machines in Prewar Japan: The Mechanical Uncanny in Yumeno Kyûsaku’s Dogura magura
  • Thomas Schnellbächer. Has the Empire Sunk Yet?—The Pacific in Japanese Science Fiction
  • KOTANI Mari. Space, Body, and Aliens in Japanese Women’s Science Fiction
  • Susan J. Napier. When the Machines Stop: Fantasy, Reality, and Terminal Identity in Neon Genesis Evangelion and Serial Experiments Lain
  • Sharalyn Orbaugh. Sex and the Single Cyborg: Japanese Popular Culture Experiments in Subjectivity
  • Christopher Bolton. The Mecha’s Blind Spot: Patlabor 2 and the Phenomenology of Anime
  • TATSUMI Takayuki. Editorial Afterword. A Soft Time Machine: From Translation to Transfiguration

REVIEW-ESSAYS

BOOKS IN REVIEW

  • Clarke’s British Future Fiction, 1700-1914 (Paul Alkon)
  • Boon’s New Essays on the Work of Kurt Vonnegut (Scott Ash)
  • McKenna’s Utopia: A Pragmatist and Feminist Perspective (JG)
  • Hollinger/Gordon’s Edging into the Future: Science Fiction and Contemporary Cultural Transformation (N. Katherine Hayles)
  • Makinen’s Feminist Popular Fiction (Nancy St. Clair)
  • Mead’s Encyclopedia of Jack Vance (Tom Shippey)
  • Patterson/Thornton’s Critical Perspectives on Robert A. Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land (CM)
  • Rottensteiner’s The Best of Austrian Science Fiction (Stefan Ekman)
  • Sardar/Cubitt’s Aliens R Us: The Other in SF (Mark Bould)
  • Shapiro’s Atomic Bomb Cinema (Carl Freedman)
  • Weil/Wolfe’s Harlan Ellison: The Edge of Forever (Michael Levy)
  • Westfahl/Slusser/Plummer’s Unearthly Visions (Joe Sanders)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

  • Cordwainer Smith in Japan (Alan C. Elms)
  • Man the Traveler (Brian W. Aldiss)
  • The Golden Age is Now (Paul Kincaid, Mark Bould)
  • Star Trek in American Studies (Lincoln Geraghty)
  • Reluctant Pilgrim? (David Ketterer)
  • Gibson SF Collection (Christine Mains)
  • Not (Yet) the Droids We’re Looking For (CM)
  • Calls for Papers and other Announcements

* Starred articles have been republished in Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime. Christopher Bolton, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., & Takayuki Tatsumi, ed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.


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