Science Fiction Studies

#111 = Volume 37, Part 2 = July 2010

SFS SHOWCASE: Library Collections and Archives of SF and Related Materials (presented by Rob Latham)

ARTICLES     

• John Rieder. On Defining SF, or Not: Genre Theory, SF, and History

• Morgan Fritz. Miniaturization and Cosmopolitan Future History in the Fiction of H.G. Wells

• David Seed. The Course of Empire: A Survey of the Imperial Theme in Early Anglophone Science Fiction

• William J. Fanning, Jr. The Historical Death Ray and Science Fiction in the 1920s and 1930s

• Andrew Strombeck. The Network and the Archive: The Specter of Imperial Management in William Gibson’s Neuromancer

REVIEW-ESSAYS

• Mark Bould. From Panther to Princess, Sex Work to Starfleet: A Special Issue of African Identities on “The Black Imagination and Science Fiction”

• Pawel Frelik. Close Encounters: Vest’s The Postmodern Humanism of Philip K. Dick
  

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Booker’s The Supernatural in American Culture (Kristin Noone)

• Collins’s Anthropological  Engagements with the Future (Diane M. Nelson)

• Fisch’s Frankenstein (Amy J. Ransom)  

• Hall’s Naomi Mitchison: A Profile of Her Life and Work (John Clute)

• Lunning’s Mechademia 3: Limits of the Human (D. Harlan Wilson)

• Pordzik’s Futurescapes: Space in Utopian and Science Fiction Discourse (Peter Fitting)

• Ransom’s Science Fiction from Québec: A Postcolonial Study (Sophie Beaule)

• Rottensteiner’s The Black Mirror and Other Stories: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Germany and Austria (Sonja Fritzsche)

• Steiff/Tamplin’s Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy and Eberl/Decker’s Star Trek and Philosophy (Russell Blackford)

• Walters’s Alternative Worlds in Hollywood Cinema (D. Harlan Wilson)  

• Winnington’s The Working of Mervyn Peake’s Imagination (Paul Kincaid)            
  

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• Homage to J.G. Ballard (Roger Luckhurst)     
• The Short Career of Calvin M. Knox (Michael Hemmingson)
• 2010-11 Mullen Fellows Announced (Rob Latham)        
• SFRA 2010 Awards (Lisa Yaszek)     
• Staging Dhalgren (Carol McGuirk)  
• Publishing Announcements and Calls for Papers
• Notes on Contributors