Science Fiction Studies

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ARTICLES

• Stefania Forlini. Periodical Speculations: Early “Science Fiction” and Popular Victorian Weeklies

• Todd M. Thompson. Religion, Violence, and Apocalypse in H.G. Wells

• Stefan Würrer. A Short History of Ambivalence Toward the Feminist Utopia in Japanese Science Fiction

• Lorenzo Andolfatto. Han Song’s “A Guide to Hunting Beautiful Women” and the Restricted Horizon of “Chinese SF”

• Lyu Guangzhao. Demise of the False Utopia: China’s Post-socialist Transition in Han Song’s Red Star Over America

• Jerry Rafiki Jenkins and Katie Sciurba. Body Knowledge, Reproductive Anxiety, and “Paying the Rent” in Octavia E. Butler’s “Bloodchild”     

• Jo Alyson Parker. Ted Chiang’s Time-Travel Narratives: Predetermination, Predictability, and Free Will      

REVIEW-ESSAYS

• Elana Gomel. Memory of the Present: Hanson’s Memory and Utopian Agency in Utopian/Dystopian Literature

• Ian Campbell. UFO Cults Are a Universal Language: Determann’s Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Dath’s Niegeschichte (Christoph Schmitz)

• Jing Jiang’s “New People” in Twentieth-Century Chinese SF (Hua Li)

• Jue’s Wild Blue Media (Rachel Webb Jekanowski)

• Lampadius’s Artificial Humans and Evolution in Anglophone SF of the 20th Century(Suparna Banerjee)

• Hua Li’s Chinese Science Fiction during the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw(Angie Chau)

• Norman’s The Culture of “The Culture”: Utopian Processes in Iain M. Banks’s Space Opera Series (Chad Andrews)                

• Pitts’s Alternative Masculinities in Feminist Speculative Fiction: A New Man (Ezekiel Crago)         

• Ramirez’s Against Automation Mythologies (Miguel Sebastián-Martín)

• Wood’s On Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren (A.J. Rocca)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• Charles L. Elkins (1940-2021) (Robert M. Philmus)

• The Planet after Geoengineering (Lisa Swanstrom)

• “Imagination Annotated” (Ed Finn and David H. Guston)

• Journal of Dracula Studies (Anne DeLong and Curt Herri)

• A New Book Series from Routledge (Lorna Piatti-Farnell)

• “Romancing the Gothic” (Sam Hirst)

• Special Issue of Interdisciplinary Humanities (Anna Tahinici and Ed Cuerva)

• STEM in US Popular Culture

• Interdisciplinary Comics Studies (Brianna Anderson and Laken Brooks) 

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