Science Fiction Studies

#100 = Volume 33, Part 3 = November 2006

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ARTICLES

• Editorial Introduction: The 100th Issue of SFS

• Roundtable on SF Criticism (SFS Consultants)

• Allen A. Debus. Reframing the Science in Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth

• Michelle Reid. Urban Space and Canadian Identity in Charles de Lint’s Svaha

• Paul Kincaid. "A Mode of Head-On Collision": George Turner’s Critical Relationship with Science Fiction

 SPECIAL SECTION ON WILLIAM GIBSON’S PATTERN RECOGNITION

• Veronica Hollinger. Stories About the Future: From Patterns of Expectation to Pattern Recognition

• Christopher Palmer. Pattern Recognition: "None of What We Do Here Is Ever Really Private"

• Neil Easterbrook. Alternate Presents: The Ambivalent Historicism of Pattern Recognition

REVIEW-ESSAYS

• Carol McGuirk. Schooling the Monster: Seed’s Companion to Science Fiction

• Mark Bould. Best Foot Forward: Sobchack’s Carnal Thoughts: Embodiment and Moving Image Culture

• Neil Easterbrook. Mediating Intermediation: Hayles’s My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts 

BOOKS IN REVIEW (full text)

• Anders’s Science Fiction in Literature and Film (Graham Sleight)

• New reprint of Čapek’s The Absolute at Large (Robert M. Philmus)

• New reprint of Cummings’s The Girl in the Golden Atom (Gary K. Wolfe)

• Mills’s Stuckness in the Fiction of Mervyn Peake (Joe Sanders)

• Milner’s Literature, Culture, and Society (Sherryl Vint)

• Mohr’s Dualism and Transgression in Contemporary Female Dystopias(Michael Levy)

• Nadis’s Performing Science, Magic, and Religion in America (Holly Savage)
  

• Partington’s The Political Thought of H.G. Wells (Nicholas Ruddick)

• Pendle’s The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons (RL)

• Philmus’s Visions and Re-Visions (Brian Attebery)

• Russell’s Digging Holes in Popular Culture and Klossner’s Prehistoric Humans in Film and Television (Samuel Gerald Collins)

• Seed’s Brainwashing: The Fictions of Mind Control (RL)

• Smith’s H.P. Lovecraft in Popular Culture and Colavito’s H.P.Lovecraft and Extraterrestrial Pop Culture (Rebecca Janicker)

• Yaszek’s Technology and Subjectivity in Contemporary Narrative (Nicola Nixon)

• Centennial Scholarship on Jules Verne (ABE)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE