Science Fiction Studies

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ARTICLE ABSTRACTS

SPECIAL SECTION ON LIU CIXIN

• Li Guangyi and Nathaniel Isaacson. China Turns Outward: On the Literary Significance of Liu Cixin’s Science Fiction

• Gwennaël Gaffric. Liu Cixin’s THREE-BODY TRILOGY and the Status of Science Fiction in Contemporary China

• Stephen Dougherty. Liu Cixin, Arthur C. Clarke, and “Repositioning”

OTHER ARTICLES

• Val Nolan. Nostalgia for Infinity: Hard Determinism and Hard Science in Alastair Reynolds’s  REVELATION SPACE Sequence 

• Silvia G. Kurlat Ares. Argentine Science Fiction: Between Everyday Politics and Dystopia

• Hee-Jung Serenity Joo. Racial Impossibility and Critical Failure in W.E.B. Du Bois’s Darkwater

• Siobhan Carroll. Lost in Space: Surviving Globalization in Gravity and The Martian

• Vitor Bonifácio. A Singular Novel—Amaral’s 1886 Os habitantes do planeta Saturno [The Inhabitants of the Planet Saturn]  

REVIEW-ESSAYS

• E. Mariah Spencer. Margaret Cavendish’s “Earth’s Complaint” and other SF Poems

• Kumiko Saito. Mapping Anime Scholarship in the Post-Genre Age: Bolton’s Interpreting Anime

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Broderick’s Psience Fiction (Anthony Enns)

• Cano’s Los espíritus de la ciencia ficción (Andrea Bell)

• Gunn’s Star-Begotten: A Life Lived in Science Fiction (Karen Hellekson)

• Hassler-Forest’s Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Politics (Graham J. Murphy) 

• Hentges’s Girls on Fire (Nancy  St. Clair)

• Jerng’s Racial Worldbuilding  (Elizabeth Lundberg)

• Lajoyes’ Étoiles rouges (Leonid Heller)

• Loza’s Speculative Imperialisms (Taylor Evans)

• Luckhurst’s Science Fiction: A Literary History (Jason W. Ellis)

• McCutcheon’s The Medium is the Monster (Nicholas Ruddick)

• Pilsch’s Transhumanism (Joshua Raulerson)

• Schauer’s Escape Velocity: American SF Film 1950-1982  (Mark Bould)

• Westfahl’s Arthur C. Clarke (Jordan S. Carroll)

• Willems’s Speculative Realism and  Science Fiction (Veronica Hollinger)

• Williams’s Gears and God: Technocratic Fiction, Faith, and Empire in Mark Twain’s America (John Rieder)
  

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• Lem, Dick, and Royalities in the Soviet Era (Franz Rottensteiner)

• Back issues of SFS  for Sale (Robert  M. Philmus)

• Calls for Essays and Proposals

• Notes on Contributors

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