Science Fiction Studies

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SPECIAL SECTION ON KIM STANLEY ROBINSON

• Christopher Palmer. Early Robinson: Memory, History, and the Local     

• Jeremy Withers. Automobility Without Automobiles in Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140

• Sara Martín. A Celebration of Mature Love: Posthuman Sexuality, Gender, and Romance in Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312     

OTHER ARTICLES

• Carol McGuirk. J.G. Ballard and American Science Fiction

• Ron S. Judy. Chinese Post-humanism and Chen Qiufan’s Political Science Fiction            

• David Boucher. District 9 by Neill Blomkamp: Derrida’s Spectrality and the Alien Migrant Crisis                

• Jeremy Chow. Zoo-optics: Mutant Ethology and Nonhuman Visualities in VanderMeer’s SOUTHERN REACH Trilogy                

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Alphin’s Neoliberalism and Cyberpunk Science Fiction (David Shipko)    

• Becker/Hougue’s La Pandémie en science-fiction (Amy Ransom)

• Bould’s The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture (Nathaniel Isaacson)         

• Connolly’s After Human: A Critical History of the Human in Science Fiction from Shelley to Le Guin (Anna McFarlane)                

• Frankel’s Jewish SF and Fantasy Through 1945 (Carol McGuirk)                

• Higgins’s Reverse Colonization (Suparno Banerjee)         

• Kaup’s New Ecological Realisms (Brent Ryan Bellamy)  

• Khan’s Materiality, Mythology and Technology of Indian Science Fiction (Abhijit Gupta)             

• Knickerbocker’s Spain is Different? (Sara Martín)

• Moylan’s Becoming Utopian (De Witt Douglas Kilgore)

• Palmer’s Apocalypse in Crisis (Connor Pitetti)    

• Rabitsch/Fuchs/Brandt’s Fantastic Cities (Jeremy Withers)         

• Sanchez-Taylor’s Science Fiction and Authors of Color (Joan Gordon)      

• Scharmen’s Space Forces (Rick Cousins)               

• Sorensen’s Science Fiction Film (Troy Michael Bordun)  

• Sperling’s “Climate Fictions” in Paradoxa (Michael Horka)          

• Vint’s Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First Century Speculative Fiction (Hugh C. O’Connell)           

• Walker’s VictorianVisions of Suburban Utopia (James Hamby)  

• Zamalin’s Black Utopia (Julia Lindsay)   

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• Call for Applications: R.D. Mullen Fellowships (Sherryl Vint)

• Science Fiction in Korea: Exhibition at USC (Sunyoung Park)       

• SFRA Annual Awards (Gerry Canavan)   

• Calls for Papers                

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