Science Fiction Studies

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ARTICLES ABSTRACTS

SPECIAL ISSUE ON SF AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS

Edited by Brent Ryan Bellamy and Veronica Hollinger

• Brent Ryan Bellamy. Introduction.

• Symposium on Science Fiction and the Climate Crisis.   

• DESIGN EARTH. Of Oil and Ice.    

• Steve Asselin. A Climate of Competition: Climate Change as Political Economy in Speculative Fiction, 1889-1915.      

• Anindita Banerjee. Atoms, Aliens, and Compound Crises: Central Asia’s Nuclear Fantastic.

• Michael Gaffney. The Ice Age and Us: Imagining Geohistory in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Shaman.

• Rebecca Evans. Nomenclature, Narrative, and Novum: “The Anthropocene” and/as Science Fiction.

• Chris Pak. Terraforming and Geoengineering in Luna: New Moon, 2312, and Aurora.  

• Brent Ryan Bellamy and Sean O’Brien. Solar Accumulation: The Worlds-Systems Theory of The Expanse.

• Allison Mackey. Guilty Speculations: The Affective Climate of Global Anthropocene Fictions.

• Hua Li. “Are We, People from the Earth, so Terrible?”: An  Atmospheric Crisis in Zheng Wenguang’s Descendant of Mars.

• Guy Witzel. Abcanny Waters: Victor LaValle, John Langan, and the Weird Horror of Climate Change.
  

REVIEW-ESSAY

• Terry Harpold. “À la Hogarth”: Verne’s Robur the Conqueror.    

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Garforth’s Green Utopias: Environmental Hope Before and After Nature (Gerry Canavan).          

• Ghosh’s The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable  (Ericka Hoagland).        

• Streeby’s Imagining the Future of Climate Change (Conrad Scott).          

• Ashley’s Science Fiction Magazines from 1981 to 1990 (Paul Kincaid).     

• Benford/Westfahl/Hendrix/Miller’s Bridges to Science Fiction and Fantasy (Nicholas Ruddick).              

• Bowler’s Prophets of Progress from H.G. Wells to Isaac Asimov (Patrick A. McCarthy).  

• Burton’s The Philosophy of Science Fiction (Leslie J. Fernandez).              

• Edri/Gurevitch’s Science Fiction beyond Borders (Keren Omry).

• Garlington’s The Adventures of Acidman: Psychedelics and the Evolution of Consciousness in Science Fiction and Superhero Comics from the 1960s Onward (Eric Berlatsky).  

• Hayles’s Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Unconscious (Colin Milburn).

• Hubble/MacCallum-Stewart/Norman’s The Science Fiction of Iain M. Banks (Chad Andrews).

• James’s The Journals of Samuel Delany, Vol. 1 (Carl Freedman).               

• López-Pellisa’s La Ciencia ficción en la cultura española (Sara Martín). 

• Segaloff’s The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison (Gary K. Wolfe).            

• Telotte’s Animating the Science Fiction Imagination (Rick Cousins).       

• Towlson’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind (David Hollands).

• Trudel’s Petit Guide de la science-fiction au Québec (Amy Ransom).       

• Wilson’s J.G. Ballard and Sellars’s Applied Ballardianism (Rob Latham).    

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• Eulogy for Ursula K. Le Guin (Robert M. Philmus)            

• SF and the Digital Humanities (Lisa Swanstrom)              

• Reply to Elana Gomel’s Review (Rob Latham)   

• Calls for Essays                

• Notes on Contributors 

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