Science Fiction Studies

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SPECIAL ISSUE ON INDIAN SF
Edited by Joan Gordon

• Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay. On the Mythologerm: Kalpavigyan and the Question of Imperial Science 

• Anwesha Maity. Estrangement, History, and Aesthetic Relish: A Reading of Premendra Mitra’s Manu Dwadosh  

• Sami Ahmad Khan. The Others in India’s Other Futures

• Suparno Banerjee. Crossing the Border: The Depiction of India in Ian McDonald’s River of Gods and Cyberabad Day

• Eric D. Smith. Universal Love and Planetary Ontology in Vandana Singh’s Of Love and Other Monsters

• Malisa Kurtz. “Alternate Cuts”: Interview with Vandana Singh 

REVIEW-ESSAYS

• Veronica Hollinger. “Some Real Mothers ...”: Revised edition of Bammer’s Feminism and Utopianism in the 1970

• Amy Ransom. Playing Dice with the Universe: Meillassoux’s After Finitude, The Number and the Siren, and Science Fiction and Extro-Science Fiction

• Sherryl Vint. Possibilities for a Science-Fiction Cinema: Bould’s Solaris, Butler’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Conolly’s The Thing, Forshaw’s The War of the Worlds, Kermode’s Silent Running, Krämer’s Dr. Strangelove, Le Blanc/Odell’s Akira, Luckhurst’s Alien, McAuley’s Brazil, Newman’s Quatermass and the Pit, and Wilson’s They Live

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Bast’s Agency in Writings by Octavia Butler (Rebecca Evans)      

• Burton’s The Philosophy of Science Fiction: Henri Bergson and the Fabulations of Philip K. Dick(Steven Shaviro)               

• Freedman’s Art and Ideas in the Novels of China Miéville (Joan Gordon)

• Ginn/Leitch’s Time-Travel Television (James Hamby)     

• Gregory’s Science Fiction Theology (Gerry Canavan)       

• Lee’s Historical and Cultural Readings of Star Wars(Nathan Fredrickson)            

• Beus/Evenson’s new translation of Gustave Le Rouge’s Prisoner of the Vampires of Mars (Sean Matharoo)        

• Murphy’s Persuasive Aesthetic Ecocritical Praxis (Alan Lovegreen)

• Paddy’s The Empires of J.G. Ballard (Valentina Polcini)  

• Rogers/Stevens’s Classical Traditions in Science Fiction (Lisa Raphals)   

• Scroggins’s Michael Moorcock (Benjamin Robertson)    

• Swirski/Osadnik’s Stanisław Lem in the Eyes of the World and Swirski’s Stanisław Lem: Philosopher of the Future (Brittany Roberts)          

• Vint’s Science Fiction and Cultural Theory (David Wittenberg)   

• Zinos-Amaro’s Conversations with Robert Silverberg (Rjurik Davidson)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• R.D. Mullen Fellowship Winners (SFS Editors)   

• Changes to the R.D. Mullen Fellowship (SFS Editors)      

• SFRA 2016 Conference Report (Leimar Garcia-Siino)

• Between Fact and Fiction: Climate Change Fiction (Emanuel Herold, Sina Farzin, and Susan M. Gaines)

• Science Fiction Studio (Ruth Wylie)        

• Flag Flying Aspidistras and Triffids (David Ketterer)        

• CFPs and a Farewell to an SFS Editor      

• Notes on Contributors

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