Science Fiction Studies

SOCIAL SCIENCE FICTION

Edited by Neil Gerlach, Sheryl N. Hamilton, and Rob Latham              

ARTICLES

• Neil Gerlach and Sheryl N. Hamilton. Introduction: A History of Social Science Fiction

• Symposium on Social SF: Tom Moylan, Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, Carl Freedman, and Bill Bogard

• Samuel Gerald Collins. Sail On! Sail On!: Anthropology, Science Fiction, and the Enticing Future

• Andrew Milner. Utopia and Science Fiction in Raymond Williams

• J.P. Telotte. Doing Science in Machine Age Horror: The Mummy’s Case

• Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. Science Fiction and Empire

• Diane Nelson. A Social Science Fiction of Fevers, Delirium, and Discovery: The Calculta Chromosome, the Colonial Laboratory, and the Postcolonial New Human

• Sheryl N. Hamilton. Traces of the Future: Biotechnology, Science Fiction, and the Media

REVIEW-ESSAYS

• Veronica Hollinger. The Girls Who Were Plugged In: Larbalestier’s The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction

• Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. Lucid Dreams, or Flightless Birds on Rooftops? Historical Materialism’s Symposium on Marxism and Fantasy

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Cousin de Grainville’s The Last Man (Brian W. Aldiss)

• Flanagan/Booth’s reload: Rethinking Women and Cyberculture (JG)

• Grenville’s Experiments in Cyborg Culture (Christopher Bolton)

• Hayles’s Writing Machines (John Scheckter) 311

• Kaveney’s Reading the Vampire Slayer and Wilcox/Lavery’s What’s at Stake in BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (Nicholas Birns)

• Kitchin/Kneale’s Geographies of Science Fiction (Andrew M. Butler)

• Pettman’s After the Orgy and Fernbach’s Fantasies of Fetishism: From Decadence to the Post-Human (Simone Weil Davis)

• Kolko/Nakamura/Rodman’s Race in Cyberspace (Doris Witt)

• Lucanio/Coville’s Smokin’ Rockets: The Romance of Technology in American Film, Radio and Television 1945-1962 (Richard D. Erlich)

• Meyers’s Narratives of the Female Gothic Experience (Nicola Nixon)

• Ryan’s Cyberspace Textuality: Computer Technology and Literary Theory (VH)

• Sanz’s Dinosaur Mythology and Popular Culture (Mark Bould)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE                       

• The Sociology of Science Fiction (Brian Stableford)
• Ninsei Street, Chiba City, in Gibson’s Neuromancer (Ian Lancashire)
• Hong Kong 2003 (VH)
• Special Issue of Rhizomes (Davin Heckman)
• SFRA Award Winners (CM)
• ICFA 2003 (JG)
• In Memoriam: Jacques Chambon (Jean-Claude Dunyach)
• Science Fiction Book Club’s Top Ten (CM)
• More’s Utopia Donated to the Eaton Collection (CM)
• Calls for Papers and Other Announcements

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