Science Fiction Studies

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SPECIAL ISSUE ON ITALIAN SCIENCE FICTION
Edited by Umberto Rossi, Arielle Saiber, and Salvatore Proietti

ARTICLE ABSTRACTS

• Arielle Saiber and Umberto Rossi. Introduction: Italian SF: Dark Matter or Black Hole?

• Salvatore Proietti. The Field of Italian SF          

• Symposium on Italian SF             

• Valerio Evangelisti. Science Fiction: A Narrative in Line With the Times

• Domenico Gallo. Fantascienza Outside the Ghetto: The Science-Fictional Writings of Italian Mainstream Authors            

• Roberta Mori. Worlds of “Un-knowledge”: Dystopian Patterns in Primo Levi’s Short Stories     

• Luca Somigli. My Name Is Pantera: On Valerio Evangelisti’s “Slipstream” Western Fiction        

• Simone Brioni. Fantahistorical vs. Fantafascist Epic: “Contemporary” Alternative Italian Colonial Histories   

• Eliot Chayt. Revisiting Italian Post-Neorealist SF Cinema (1963-74)

• Robert Rushing. The Weight of History: Immunity and the Nation in Italian SF Cinema 

• Arielle Saiber and Salvatore Proietti. A Selection of Italian SF Novels and Short Stories Translated and Published in English

REVIEW-ESSAYS

• Felice Beneduce. Progress and Reaction in Early Italian SF: A New Translation of Paolo Mantegazza’s The Year 3000: A Dream     

• Paweł Frelik. Greener Than You Think: Canavan and Robinson’s Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction      

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Burnham’s Greg Egan (Graham J. Murphy)         

• Chapman/Cull’s SF and Popular Cinema (Sonja Fritzsche)           

• Clarke’s Neocybernetics and Narrative (Walter Merryman)       

• Germaná/Mousoutzanis’s Apocalyptic Discourse in Contemporary Culture (Malisa Kurtz)          

• Gomel’s Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism (Seo-Young Chu)  

• Hrotic’s Religion in Science Fiction (Gerry Canavan)       

• Kakoudaki’s Anatomy of a Robot (Lisa Swanstrom)        

• Kerman/Browning’s The Fantastic in Holocaust Literature and Film (Elana Gomel)        

• Kincaid’s Call and Response (Gary K. Wolfe)     

• McGrath’s Deep Ends: The J.G. Ballard Anthology 2014 (Michael Jarvis)               

• McMillan’s Orbiting Ray Bradbury’s Mars (Paris Brown)             

• Ranisch/Sorgner’s Post- and Transhumanism (Hallvard Haug)  

• Vas-Deyres/Bergeron/Guay/Plet-Nicolas/André’s Les Dieux cachés de la science-fiction française et francophone (1950-2010) (Arthur B. Evans)    

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• George Edgar Slusser (1939-2014) (Arthur B. Evans)        

• ICFA 36 (Graham Hall)  

• The Mimetic, Hermetic, and Apocalyptic (David Ketterer)          

• Aesthetics, Artificiality, and Virtuality in SF (David Ketterer)     

• Howell Davies and John Wyndham (David Ketterer)     

• 2015-2016 Mullen Fellowships (Sherryl Vint)