ARTICLES 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 Back to Home .
ARTICLES
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
