Science Fiction Studies

#112 = Volume 37, Part 3 = November 2010

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ARTICLES     

SPECIAL SECTION ON OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

• De Witt Douglas Kilgore and Ranu Samantrai. A Memorial to Octavia E. Butler

• Benjamin J. Robertson. “Some Matching Strangeness”: Biology, Politics, and the Embrace of History in Octavia Butler’s Kindred 

• Adam J. Johns. Becoming Medusa: Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood and Sociobiology

• Maria Aline Ferreira. Symbiotic Bodies and Evolutionary Tropes in the Work of Octavia Butler

• Marty M. Fink. AIDS Vampires: Reimagining Illness in Octavia  Butler’s Fledgling

• Reflections on Octavia E. Butler                                                                                                                                                     

THE 2010 SFS SYMPOSIUM: ANIMAL STUDIES AND SF

• Rob Latham. Introduction 

• Sherryl Vint. Animal Studies in the Era of Biopower

• Joan Gordon. Talking (for, with) Dogs: Science Fiction Breaks a Species Barrier

• Carol McGuirk. The Animal Downdeep: Cordwainer Smith’s Late Tales of the Underpeople   

REVIEW-ESSAYS

• Joanne Murray. An Imaginary Museum: Ballard at the Gagosian

• Sandra J. Lindow. Le Guin’s Post-feminist Carrier Bag Make-Over: Clarke’s Ursula K. Le Guin’s Journey to Post-Feminism

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Francis’s Conversations with Octavia Butler (Jane Donawerth)

• Applebaum’s Representations of Technology in SF (Michael Levy)

• Asma’s On Monsters (D. Harlan Wilson)

• Bould/Miéville’s Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction (Paweł Frelik)

• Freedman’s Conversations with Samuel R. Delany and the new Wesleyan UP edition of Delany’s The Jewel-Hinged Jaw (Isiah Lavender III)

• Link’s Understanding Philip K. Dick (John Rieder)

• Patterson’s Robert A. Heinlein in Dialogue with His Century: The Authorized Biography: Vol. 1 (Carol McGuirk)

• Ruddick’s The Fire in the Stone: Prehistoric Fiction from Charles Darwin to Jean M. Auel (Donald M. Hassler)

• Stableford’s Gothic Grotesques, Jaunting on the Scoriac Tempests, and News of the Black Feast and other Random Reviews (Paul Kincaid)

• Van Ness’ Watchmen as Literature (Joe Sanders)

• Walter’s new Verne translations in Jules Verne’s Amazing Journeys: Five Visionary Classics (Arthur B. Evans)

• Warren’s American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties (J.P. Telotte)

• Wilson’s Selfhood and the Body in Postcapitalist SF (Kelly Meyer) 

• McConnell’s Collected Essays on SF Storytelling and the Gnostic Imagination (Richard D. Erlich)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• Remembering Walter James Miller and E.F. Bleiler (Arthur B. Evans)
• SFRA 2010 (Kristin Noone)
• Correction (William J. Fanning)
• Publishing Announcements and Calls for Papers