Science Fiction Studies

#102 = Volume 34, Part 2 = July 2007

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SPECIAL ISSUE ON AFROFUTURISM

Edited by Mark Bould and Rone Shavers

• Mark Bould. The Ships Landed Long Ago: Afrofuturism and Black SF

• Isiah Lavender, III. Ethnoscapes: Environment and Language in Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo, Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist, and Samuel R. Delany’s Babel-17

• Darryl A. Smith. Droppin’ Science Fiction: Signification and Singularity in the Metapocalypse of Du Bois, Baraka, and Bell

• Mark Bould. Come Alive by Saying No: An Introduction to Black Power SF

• Sherryl Vint. “Only by Experience”: Embodiment and the Limitations of Realism in Neo-Slave Narratives

• Jillana Enteen. “On the Receiving End of the Colonization”: Nalo Hopkinson’s ’Nansi Web

• Nabeel Zuberi. Is This The Future? Black Music and Technology Discourse

REVIEW-ESSAY

• Sherryl Vint. Funk Not Punk: Foster’s The Souls of Cyberfolk

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Brown’s Black Superheroes (Joe Sutliff Sanders)

• Kevorkian’s The Black Face of Technology in America (Isiah Lavender, III)

• Spaulding’s History, the Fantastic, and the Postmodern Slave Narrative (Michelle Reid)

• Brown’s Science and Power in Argentine Narrative (Aaron Dziubinskyj)

• Butler’s Christopher Priest: The Interaction (John Langan)

• Davin’s Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965 (Lauren Lacey)

• Dinello’s Technophobia!: SF Visions of Posthuman Technology (C. Jason Smith)

• Gillis’s The Matrix Trilogy: Cyberpunk Reloaded (Stacie Hanes)

• Haney’s Cyberculture, Cyborgs, and Science Fiction (Graham Murphy)

• Harris-Fain’s Understanding Contemporary American SF (Marian Parish)

• Hogan’s Science Fiction America: Essays on SF Cinema (Rochelle Rodrigo)

• Gupta/Johnson’s A Twentieth-Century Reader and Johnson’s Debating Twentieth-Century Literature, 1940-2000 (Eyal Tamir)

• Kelly/Kessel’s The Slipstream Anthology (Doug Davis)

•  Kovacs’s Ghosts in Literature and Film (Melissa Stevenson)

• Livingston’s Between Science and Literature: Autopoetics (Krista Kasdorf)

• Lupoff’s The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs (Jacob Weisman)

• Mendlesohn’s Diana Wynne Jones (Maureen Kincaid Speller)

• Wong/Westfahl/Chan’s World Weavers: Globalization, Science Fiction, and the Cybernetic Revolution (Lisa Yaszek)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• Prehistoric Humans (Michael Klossner)
• “New” John Wyndham in The Literary Encyclopedia (David Ketterer)
• Special issue of SFS on the New Wave (RL)
• Editorial Changes at Extrapolation (Michael Levy)
• SFRA Awards (Adam Frisch)
• Society for Utopian Studies (Peter Fitting)
• CFPs for upcoming conferences 
   

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