Science Fiction Studies

#114 = Volume 38, Part 2 = July 2011

ESSAY

• Brian W. Aldiss. Metaphysical Realism.

ARTICLE ABSTRACTS

• Kevin LaGrandeur. The Persistent Peril of the Artificial Slave

• Geraldine Lawless. Unknown Futures: Nineteenth-Century Science Fiction in Spain

• Pavla Veselá. Neither Black nor White: The Critical Utopias of Sutton E. Griggs and George S. Schuyler

• Thomas Van Parys. A Fantastic Voyage to Inner Space: Description in Science-Fiction Novelizations

• Nicholas C. Laudadio. “Sounds like a Human Performance”: The Electronic Music Synthesizer in Mid-Twentieth-Century SF

REVIEW-ESSAYS

• Joan Gordon. Learning to Live with Animals in SF: Vint’s Animal Alterity: Science Fiction and the Question of the Animal

• Patrick Parrinder. The War of Wells’s Lives: Sherborne’s H.G. Wells: Another Kind of Life

• Gary Westfahl. A Work of Art, If Not a Masterpiece: Frank’s Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists of the Twentieth Century

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Billings’s M.P. Shiel, The Middle Years 1897-1923 (Susan Zieger)

• Bolton’s Sublime Voices: The Fictional Science and Scientific Fiction of Abe Kobo (Takayuki Tatsumi)

• Booker/Thomas’s The Science Fiction Handbook (Len Hatfield)

• Busch’s The Utopian Vision of H.G. Wells (Graham J. Murphy)

• Cowan’s Sacred Space: The Quest for Transcendence in Science Fiction Film and Television (Jennifer Kavetsky)

• Evans/Csicsery-Ronay/Gordon/Hollinger/Latham/McGuirk’s The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (Kathleen Ann Goonan)

• Godwin’s The Man in the Moone (Patrick B. Sharp)

• Jones’s Essays and Talks on Fiction, Feminism, Technology, and Politics (David M. Higgins)  

• Mendlesohn’s On Joanna Russ (Ritch Calvin)

• Pintér’s The Anatomy of Utopia: Narration, Estrangement and Ambiguity in More, Wells, Huxley and Clarke (Amy J. Ransom)

• Tabachnick’s Teaching the Graphic Novel (Paul Rosa)

• Westfahl’s Islands in the Sky: The Space Station Theme in Science Fiction Literature (Neil Easterbrook)

• Yi’s Aesthetics and Ethics in the Age of Postmodernism (Paweł Frelik)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• “For-a-While”: Remembering Joanna Russ (1937-2011) 
• Suburbia and the Dual City in The Iron Heel (Carl Abbott)
• John Wyndham and Octavia Butler (David Ketterer)
• The Trouble with Samuel Delany’s Pornography (Michael Hemmingson)
• Louis Armstrong: Secret SF Fan? (Barbara Bengels)
• Conferences, Calls for Papers, Corrections
• Notes on Contributors

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