Science Fiction Studies

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THE 2013 SFS SYMPOSIUM: SF MEDIA(TIONS)

• Rob Latham. Introduction

• Mark Bould. Of Eight Oscillations and Several Messages Carved in Flesh: Spectacle, Spectatorship, Cognition, and Affect in Dredd and Looper

• Vivian Sobchack. Sci-Why? On the Decline of a Film Genre in an Age of Technological Wizardry

• Istvan Csicsery-Ronay. The Eye of Gort

ARTICLE ABSTRACTS

• Amy J. Ransom. The First Last Man: Cousin de Grainville’s Le Dernier homme   

• Justin Prystash. Sexual Futures: Feminism and Speculative Fiction in the Fin de Siècle

• Adam Głaz.Rorschach, We Have a Problem! The Linguistics of First Contact in Watts’s Blindsight and Lem’s His Master’s Voice
  

• James Pulizzi. Language After Humans: On the Disembodied Language of Joseph McElroy’s Plus

• Jacob Emery. A Clone Playing Craps Will Never Abolish Chance: Randomness and Fatality in Vladimir Sorokin’s Clone Fictions
  

REVIEW-ESSAYS

• Jerome Winter. All Hail the Slide-Rule? Clareson/Sanders’s The Heritage of Heinlein, Herbe’s Characters in New British Hard Science Fiction, and Slusser’s Gregory Benford
  

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Colebrook/Cox’s The Transgressive Iain Banks (Stephen Dougherty)

• Everett/Roman’s Time Travel and Warp Drives (David Wittenberg)       

• Geppert’s Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century (De Witt Douglas Kilgore) 

• McGrath’s The J.G. Ballard Book (Pedro Groppo)            

• Orthia’s Doctor Who and Race (Stina Attebery)

• Polcini’s Oltre la fantascienza: Paradigmi e intertestualità nella narrative di J.G. Ballard (Umberto Rossi)        

• Sims’s Tech Anxiety: Artificial Intelligence and Ontological Awakening in Four Science Fíction Novels (M. Keith Booker)

• Wagner’s The Scientist as God: A Typological Study of a Literary Motif, 1818 to the Present (Colin Drumm)               

• Westfahl’s William Gibson (Michael M. Levy) 
  

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• Imaging Alternatives (Josh Pearson)     
• ICFA-35 (Graham J. Murphy)   
• “Embattled Heavens” Conference (Paweł Frelik)           
• Forgotten Spaces 2013 (Mark Bould)     
• Science Fiction: New Death (Chris Pak)
•  New Journal (Sean Redmond) 
• Corrigenda (Rob Latham)            
• John Wyndham’s “The Living Lies” in Other Worlds (David Ketterer)    
• John B. Harris’s Mars Rover on Earth (David Ketterer)   
• Notes on Contributors 

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