Science Fiction Studies

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

• Susan Napier, Tatsumi Takayuki, Kotani Mari, and Otobe Junko:  An Interview with KOMATSU Sakyô

• ABE Kôbô. Two Essays on Science Fiction

• SHIBANO Takumi. "Collective Reason": A Proposal

• Miri Nakamura. Horror and Machines in Prewar Japan: The Mechanical Uncanny in Yumeno Kyûsaku’s Dogura magura

• Thomas Schnellbächer. Has the Empire Sunk Yet?—The Pacific in Japanese Science Fiction

• KOTANI Mari. Space, Body, and Aliens in Japanese Women’s Science Fiction

• Susan J. Napier. When the Machines Stop: Fantasy, Reality, and Terminal Identity in Neon Genesis Evangelion and Serial Experiments Lain

• Sharalyn Orbaugh. Sex and the Single Cyborg: Japanese Popular Culture Experiments in Subjectivity

• Christopher Bolton. The Mecha’s Blind Spot: Patlabor 2 and the Phenomenology of Anime

• TATSUMI Takayuki. Editorial Afterword. A Soft Time Machine: From Translation to Transfiguration

REVIEW-ESSAYS

• William O. Gardner. Attack of the Phallic Girls: SAITO Tamaki’s Sentô bishôjô no seishin bunseki (Fighting Beauties: A Psychoanalysis)

• Carl Silvio. Anime, Both Global and Local: Susan J. Napier’s Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke

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)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• 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

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