#88 = Volume 29, Part 3 = November 2002
SPECIAL ISSUE: JAPANESE SCIENCE FICTION
Edited by TATSUMI Takayuki, Christopher Bolton, and Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.
ARTICLES
- Christopher Bolton. Editorial Introduction. The Borders of Japanese Science Fiction (Full text)
- Susan Napier, Tatsumi Takayuki, Kotani Mari, and Otobe Junko: An Interview with KOMATSU Sakyô (Full text)
- ABE Kôbô. Two Essays on Science Fiction (Full text)
- SHIBANO Takumi. "Collective Reason": A Proposal (Full text)
- Miri Nakamura. Horror and Machines in Prewar Japan: The Mechanical Uncanny in Yumeno Kyûsaku’s Dogura magura (Text removed at request of author)*
- Thomas Schnellbächer. Has the Empire Sunk Yet?—The Pacific in Japanese Science Fiction (Text removed at request of author)*
- KOTANI Mari. Space, Body, and Aliens in Japanese Women’s Science Fiction (Text removed at request of author)*
- Susan J. Napier. When the Machines Stop: Fantasy, Reality, and Terminal Identity in Neon Genesis Evangelion and Serial Experiments Lain (Text removed at request of author)*
- Sharalyn Orbaugh. Sex and the Single Cyborg: Japanese Popular Culture Experiments in Subjectivity (Text removed at request of author)*
- Christopher Bolton. The Mecha’s Blind Spot: Patlabor 2 and the Phenomenology of Anime (Text removed at request of author)*
- TATSUMI Takayuki. Editorial Afterword. A Soft Time Machine: From Translation to Transfiguration (Text removed at request of author)*
- William O. Gardner. Attack of the Phallic Girls: SAITO Tamaki’s Sentô bishôjô no seishin bunseki (Fighting Beauties: A Psychoanalysis)
BOOKS IN REVIEW
- Clarke’s British Future Fiction, 1700-1914 (Paul Alkon)
- Boon’s New Essays on the Work of Kurt Vonnegut (Scott Ash)
- McKenna’s Utopia: A Pragmatist and Feminist Perspective (JG)
- Hollinger/Gordon’s Edging into the Future: Science Fiction and Contemporary Cultural Transformation (N. Katherine Hayles)
- Makinen’s Feminist Popular Fiction (Nancy St. Clair)
- Mead’s Encyclopedia of Jack Vance (Tom Shippey)
- Patterson/Thornton’s Critical Perspectives on Robert A. Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land (CM)
- Rottensteiner’s The Best of Austrian Science Fiction (Stefan Ekman)
- Sardar/Cubitt’s Aliens R Us: The Other in SF (Mark Bould)
- Shapiro’s Atomic Bomb Cinema (Carl Freedman)
- Weil/Wolfe’s Harlan Ellison: The Edge of Forever (Michael Levy)
- Westfahl/Slusser/Plummer’s Unearthly Visions (Joe Sanders)
- Cordwainer Smith in Japan (Alan C. Elms)
- Man the Traveler (Brian W. Aldiss)
- The Golden Age is Now (Paul Kincaid, Mark Bould)
- Star Trek in American Studies (Lincoln Geraghty)
- Reluctant Pilgrim? (David Ketterer)
- Gibson SF Collection (Christine Mains)
- Not (Yet) the Droids We’re Looking For (CM)
- Calls for Papers and other Announcements
* Starred articles have been republished in Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime. Christopher Bolton, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., & Takayuki Tatsumi, ed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
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