Science Fiction Studies

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THE 2011 SFS SYMPOSIUM: THE SINGULARITY

• Rob Latham: Introduction

• Brooks Landon. That Light at the End of the Tunnel: The Plurality of Singularity

• Neal Easterbrook. Singularities

• Rob Latham. From Outer to Inner Space: New Wave Science Fiction and the Singularity

ARTICLE ABSTRACTS

• Stephen Dougherty. Embodiment and Technicity in Geoff Ryman’s Air

• Everett Hamner. Remembering the Disappeared: Science Fiction Film in Post-Dictatorship Argentina 

• Steffen Hantke. A German Hero for the Cold War: Wolfgang F. Henschel’s Alpha Alpha (1972)

REVIEW-ESSAYS

• Christopher Palmer. Tracing and Complicating the Dickian Networks: Rossi’s The Twisted Worlds of Philip K. Dick and Rickels’s I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick

• Umberto Rossi. A Sort of Homecoming: Fortin’s Philip K. Dick and the Spectacle of Home

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Auger’s Tech-Noir Film: A Theory of the Development of Popular Genres (Pawel Frelik)

• Baxter’s The Life of J.G. Ballard (Umberto Rossi)  

• Booker’s Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction (Patrick B. Sharp) 

• Brown’s Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture (Jonathan Smith)

• Clute’s Pardon this Intrusion: Fantastika in the World Storm (Gerry Canavan)

• Duchamp’s Narrative Power (Veronica Schanoes)  

• Haywood Ferreira’s The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction (Juan C. Toledano Redondo)

• Henthorne’s William Gibson: A Literary Companion (Russell Blackford)

• Kang’s The Automaton in the European Imagination (Roger Luckhurst)

• Paik’s Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe (Jeff Hicks)

• Resnick/Malzberg’s The Business of Science Fiction (Gary Westfahl)

• Stableford’s new edition of Han Ryner’s The Superhumans (Jesse Cohn)

• Solomon’s Georges Méliès’s Trip to the Moon (J.P. Telotte)

• Schulman’s new edition of Jules Verne’s The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz (Arthur B. Evans)

• Westfahl/Yuen/Chan’s Science Fiction and the Prediction of the Future (Andrew Ferguson)

• Wolfe’s Evaporating Genres (Andrew M. Butler)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• Astounding and World War II (Ed Wysocki)
• Asimov versus Robinson (Carl Freedman)
• Exegesis on Exegesis (Rob Latham)
• Conference Report from Israel (Sherryl Vint)
• Call for Applications: R.D. Mullen Fellowship (Rob Latham)
• Calls for Papers, Upcoming Conferences, etc.