ARTICLES Jennifer Rhee. Finance Speculation, Indeterminacy, and Unforeclosed Futures in James Tiptree, Jr.’s “The Girl Who Was Plugged In” Elizabeth Stainforth and Jo Lindsay Walton. Computing Utopia: The Horizons of Computational Economies in History and SF Raino Isto. In the Valley of the Time Tombs: Monumentality, Temporality, and History in SF Cara Healey. Madmen and Iron Houses: Lu Xun, Information Degradation, and Generic Hybridity in Contemporary Chinese SF Robert Looby. The Control of English Language SF in People’s Poland Wenwen Guo. Semper Shame: Reading Octavia Butler’s Kindred and Fledgling Marc Acherman. Screening Prophetic Machines: Preemption, Minority Report, and the Problem of Multiple Endings REVIEW-ESSAYS Isiah Lavender III. Dat Black Girl Magic! Mafe’s Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before and Schalk’s (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction BOOKS IN REVIEW Ashcroft’s Utopianism in Postcolonial Literatures (John Scheckter) Blaim’s Utopian Visions and Revisions (Peter Paik) Bowler’s A History of the Future: Prophets of Progress from H.G. Wells to Isaac Asimov (Patrick A. McCarthy) Campbell’s Arabic Science Fiction (Musab Bajaber) Davies’s Economic Science Fictions (Joshua Pearson) Drake’s Paranoia, Fear and Alienation (Laura Thursby) Geppert’s Astroculture After Apollo (De Witt Douglas Kilgore) Grant’s Monster Cinema (David Hollands) Gunn’s The Illustrated History of Science Fiction, 3rd ed. (Chad Andrews) Gutjahr’s Voyage to the Moon and Other Imaginary Flights of Fancy in Antebellum America (Joan Gordon) Idema’s Stages of Transmutation: Science Fiction, Biology, and Environmental Posthumanism (Steven Shaviro) Kac-Vergne’s Masculinity in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema (Troy Michael Bordun) Kurlat Ares’s La Ilusión Persistente: Diálogos entre la Ciencia Ficción y el Campo Cultural (Sara Martín) Lavigne’s Post-Apocalyptic Patriarchy (Justin Cosner) Lothian’s Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility (Elizabeth Lundberg) Malley’s Archaeology and Geopolitics in Contemporary North American Science Fiction Film and Television (Hugh Elton) Nevala-Lee’s John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction (Paul Kincaid) Reddell’s The Sound of Things To Come (Dylan Cree) Rhee’s The Robotic Imaginary (Brent Ryan Bellamy) Vas-Deyres/Bergeron/Guay’s C’était demain (Arthur B. Evans) Weiner/Stevens/Rogers’s Frankenstein and Its Classics (Ellen J. Stockstill) Wells’s The Invisible Man, Lobdell/Reeves edition (Nicholas Ruddick) Živković’s Selected Essays and Short Stories (Franz Rottensteiner) NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE Flossie E. Hardart, Unheralded SF Writer (Charles Levi) Moonbit (Charlotte Albright) Awards and CFPs Back to Home
ARTICLES
Jennifer Rhee. Finance Speculation, Indeterminacy, and Unforeclosed Futures in James Tiptree, Jr.’s “The Girl Who Was Plugged In”
Elizabeth Stainforth and Jo Lindsay Walton. Computing Utopia: The Horizons of Computational Economies in History and SF
Raino Isto. In the Valley of the Time Tombs: Monumentality, Temporality, and History in SF
Cara Healey. Madmen and Iron Houses: Lu Xun, Information Degradation, and Generic Hybridity in Contemporary Chinese SF
Robert Looby. The Control of English Language SF in People’s Poland
Wenwen Guo. Semper Shame: Reading Octavia Butler’s Kindred and Fledgling
Marc Acherman. Screening Prophetic Machines: Preemption, Minority Report, and the Problem of Multiple Endings
REVIEW-ESSAYS
Isiah Lavender III. Dat Black Girl Magic! Mafe’s Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before and Schalk’s (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction
BOOKS IN REVIEW
Ashcroft’s Utopianism in Postcolonial Literatures (John Scheckter)
Blaim’s Utopian Visions and Revisions (Peter Paik)
Bowler’s A History of the Future: Prophets of Progress from H.G. Wells to Isaac Asimov (Patrick A. McCarthy)
Campbell’s Arabic Science Fiction (Musab Bajaber)
Davies’s Economic Science Fictions (Joshua Pearson)
Drake’s Paranoia, Fear and Alienation (Laura Thursby)
Geppert’s Astroculture After Apollo (De Witt Douglas Kilgore)
Grant’s Monster Cinema (David Hollands)
Gunn’s The Illustrated History of Science Fiction, 3rd ed. (Chad Andrews)
Gutjahr’s Voyage to the Moon and Other Imaginary Flights of Fancy in Antebellum America (Joan Gordon)
Idema’s Stages of Transmutation: Science Fiction, Biology, and Environmental Posthumanism (Steven Shaviro)
Kac-Vergne’s Masculinity in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema (Troy Michael Bordun)
Kurlat Ares’s La Ilusión Persistente: Diálogos entre la Ciencia Ficción y el Campo Cultural (Sara Martín)
Lavigne’s Post-Apocalyptic Patriarchy (Justin Cosner)
Lothian’s Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility (Elizabeth Lundberg)
Malley’s Archaeology and Geopolitics in Contemporary North American Science Fiction Film and Television (Hugh Elton)
Nevala-Lee’s John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction (Paul Kincaid)
Reddell’s The Sound of Things To Come (Dylan Cree)
Rhee’s The Robotic Imaginary (Brent Ryan Bellamy)
Vas-Deyres/Bergeron/Guay’s C’était demain (Arthur B. Evans)
Weiner/Stevens/Rogers’s Frankenstein and Its Classics (Ellen J. Stockstill)
Wells’s The Invisible Man, Lobdell/Reeves edition (Nicholas Ruddick)
Živković’s Selected Essays and Short Stories (Franz Rottensteiner)
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE
Flossie E. Hardart, Unheralded SF Writer (Charles Levi)
Moonbit (Charlotte Albright)
Awards and CFPs
