Science Fiction Studies

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THE 2015 SFS SYMPOSIUM: RETROFUTURISM

• Rob Latham. Introduction  

• Arthur B. Evans. Anachronism in Early French Futuristic Fiction

• Rachel Haywood Ferreira. How Latin America Saved the World and Other Forgotten Futures

• Paweł Frelik. Gazing Back in Wonder: Visual Megatexts and Forgotten Ocularies in Science Fiction

ARTICLE ABSTRACTS

• Patrick Whitmarsh. “Imagine You’re a Machine”: Narrative  Systems in Peter Watts’s Blindsight and Echopraxia               

• Andrew Rose. The Unknowable Now: Passionate Science and Transformative Politics in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Science in the Capital Trilogy

• Paul Mountfort. The I Ching and Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle

• Gerry Canavan. “A Dread Mystery, Compelling Adoration”: Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker, and Totality 

• Cameron Awkward-Rich. The Fiction of Ethnography in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland       

REVIEW-ESSAYS

• Arthur B. Evans. Surrealism and Science Fiction: Parkinson’s Futures of Surrealism and Surrealism, Science Fiction and Comics       

• David Higgins. Coming to Terms with SF: Latham’s The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction        

• Rob Latham. Weaponizing the Imagination: Colignon’s Rocket States, Fanning’s Death Rays and the Popular Media, Case’s Calling Dr. Strangelove, Edwards’s The Atomic Bomb in Japanese Cinema, Oramus’s Grave New World, and McGrath’s Deep Ends    

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Baker’s Science Fiction (Michael M. Levy)            

• Barbaro’s La fantascienza nella letteratura araba (Salvatore Proietti)   

• Caroti’s The Culture Series of Iain M. Banks (Jerome Winter)     

• Edwards’s Technogothics (Lorenzo Servitje)       

• Grantham’s The Transhuman Antihero (Joshua Pearson)             

• Gulyas’s Conspiratorial SF Television (Sarah M. Gawronski)        

• Gutiérrez-Jones’s Suicide and Contemporary SF (Elana Gomel) 

• Hottois/Missa/Perbal’s Encyclopédie du trans/posthumanisme: L’humain et ses préfixes (Annabelle Dolidon)

• Iannuzzi’s Fantascienza italiana contemporanea (Umberto Rossi)

• James’s Lois McMaster Bujold (Chad Andrews)

• MacArthur’s Gothic Science Fiction (Steven Mollmann)   

• Magerstädt’s Body, Soul, and Cyberspace in Contemporary Science Fiction (Colin Milburn)         

• Page’s Creativity and Science in Contemporary Argentine Narrative (Silvia G. Kurlat Ares)           

• Theiss’s Reading Science Fiction and Historiography (Rjurik Davidson)  

• Turnock’s Plastic Reality and Whissel’s Spectacular Visual Effects(Justin Gautreau)       

• Walter’s New Translation of Jules Verne’s Five Weeks in a Balloon (Peter Schulman)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• An Interview with Olalekan Jeyifous (Kai Hang Cheang)

• Diverse Futurisms, Sawyer Seminar at UCal Riverside (Taylor Evans)      

• ICFA 37 (Daniel Creed) 

• New Easy-to-Request Access at the Eaton Collection (JJ Jacobson)          

• Notes on Contributors