Science Fiction Studies

INTERVIEW

• Fiona Kelleghan. War of the World-Views: A Conversation with James Morrow

ARTICLE ABSTRACTS

• Aaron Dziubinskyj. The Birth of Science Fiction in Spanish America

• David Seed. H.G. Wells and the Liberating Atom

• Anindita Banerjee. Electricity: Science Fiction and Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century Russia

• Graham Murphy. Post/Humanity and the Interstitial: A Glorification of Possibility in Gibson’s Bridge Sequence

REVIEW-ESSAYS

• Peter Fitting. Narrating Utopian Space: Wegner’s Imaginary Communities

• Joe Sanders. Oh Yeah? Who Says So? Card’s The Best Science Fiction of the Century, Hills’s Fan Cultures, and Westfahl/Slusser’s Science Fiction, Canonization, Marginalization and the Academy

• Gary Westfahl. Three Decades that Shook the World: Ashley’s The Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines, Price’s Memories of the Pulp Era, and Stover’s Science Fiction from Wells to Heinlein

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Baudrillard’s The Vital Illusion, Kraus/Auer’s Simulacrum America, and Smith’s Fatal Theories for Postmodernity (David Banash)

• Forsström’s Possible Worlds: The Idea of Happiness in the Utopian Vision of Louis-Sébastien Mercier (ABE)

• Jones’s Psychedelic Decadence and Mayer’s Artificial Africas (RL)

• Kalat’s The Strange Case of Dr. Mabuse and Glassy’s The Biology of Science Fiction Cinema (David A. Kirby)

• Latham’s Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of Consumption (Roger Luckhurst)

• Lindskoog’s Sleuthing C.S. Lewis and Honda’s The Imaginative World of C.S. Lewis (Carl Freedman)

• Pierson’s Special Effects: Still in Search of Wonder (Allan C. Kupfer)

• Sawyer/Seed’s Speaking Science Fiction (Pawel Frelik)

• Server’s Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers (RL)

• Vieth’s Screening Science: Contexts, Texts, and Science in Fifties Science Fiction Film (Marian Parish)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• Japanese and Russian SF (Brian W. Aldiss)
• Apologia pro Anthologia Sua (I.F. Clarke)
• Reply to I.F. Clarke (Paul K. Alkon)
• Non-Pilgrim? (Lyman Tower Sargent)
• On the Errant "H" (CM)
• Cultures of Technology (Roger Luckhurst)
• SF as American Icon (Elisabeth Kraus)
• New Australian Radio Program, Speculation (Lilitu Babalon)

• SFRA Review Seeks Co-Editor (Mike Levy)
• Letters from PMAL (CM)