Science Fiction Studies

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ARTICLES

SPECIAL ISSUE ON FRANKENSTEIN

Edited and Introduced by Michael Griffin and Nicole Lobdell

• Introduction. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein at 200 (Full Text).

• Jed Mayer. The Weird Ecologies of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (Full Text).

• Shannon N. Conley. An Age of Frankenstein: Monstrous Motifs, Imaginative Capacities, and Assisted Reproductive Technologies (Full Text).

• Jolene Zigarovich. The Trans Legacy of Frankenstein (Full Text).

• Sinéad Murphy. Frankenstein in Baghdad: Human Conditions, or  Conditions of Being Human (Full Text).  

• Despina Kakoudaki. Unmaking People: The Politics of Negation in Frankenstein and Ex Machina (Full Text).

• Daniel Panka. Transparent Subjects: Digital Identity in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Charlie Brooker’s “Be Right Back”  (Full Text).  
  

REVIEW-ESSAYS

• J. Stephen Addcox. The Frankenstein Family Tree: Friedman/Kavey’s A History of Frankenstein Narratives and Frayling’s Frankenstein: The First Two Hundred Years     

• Marcin Wołk. Stanisław Lem, Holocaust Survivor: Gajewska’s The Past in Lem’s Fiction and Orliński’s Lem, Life from Another Planet  
  

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Guston/Finn/Robert’s Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds(Kate Holterhoff)

• Mulvey-Roberts’s Historicising the Gothic Corporeal (Kasee Laster)     

• Smith’s The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein (Rebecca Nesvet) 

• Smith’s Gothic Death 1740-1914: A Literary History (Shannon Scott)       

• Buss’s Willy Ley: Prophet of the Space Age (De Witt Douglas Kilgore)    

• Claeys’s Dystopia: A Natural History (Patrick Parrinder)            

• Clarke/Rossini’s The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman (Moritz Ingwersen)               

• Czigányik’s Utopian Horizons (Cameron Ellis)  

• Guynes/Hassler-Forest’s Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling (Benjamin J. Robertson)   

• Hamner’s Science and Fiction and the Genome Age (Rebekah Sheldon)               

• Jones’s Science Fiction Cinema and 1950s Britain (J.P. Telotte)

• Küchler/Maehl/Stout’s Alien Imaginations: Science Fiction and Tales of Transnationalism (John Rieder)              

• Lavender’s Dis-orienting Planets: Racial Representations of Asia in Science Fiction (Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay)    

• Mazierska/Suppia’s Red Alert: Marxist Approaches to Science Fiction (Andrew M. Gordon)    

• Page’s James Gunn: Writer, Teacher, Scholar (Thomas Connolly)            

• Pierce/Mondal’s Connections to Octavia E. Butler (Ritch Calvin)              

• Schmeink’s Biopunk Dystopias (Rebecca Wilbanks)       

• Whitson’s Steampunk and Nineteenth-Century Digital Humanities (Jaymee Goh Sook Yi)     

• Withers’s H.G. Wells and the Bicycle (Lisa Swanstrom)                

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• Ursula K. Le Guin, 1929-2018 (SFS editors)

• Frankenstein200 (Bob Beard)

• Lenin and The Time Machine (Patrick Parrinder)

• Report on the George Slusser Conference (Gary Westfahl)

• Calls for Papers

• TLS Remembers Le Guin (SFS editors)

• 2018 Mullen Fellows Announced
  

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