Science Fiction Studies

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ARTICLE ABSTRACTS

• Regina Y. Lee. A New Geological (R)age: Orogeny, Anger, and the Anthropocene in N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season

• Spencer Adams. Navigating Waves of Capital and History: On Speculation and Submersion in Delany

• Simona Bartolotta. Apophenic Inventions: Chance and the Dismantling of Anthropocentrism in Stanisław Lem’s Fiction

• Weronika Łaszkiewicz. Analyzing Humanity’s Fate Beyond the Anthropocene in the Works of Sheri S. Tepper

• Tomás Vergara. Towards Postcapitalist Value in Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future      

• Dihao Zhou. Contagion and Communication: Immunity, Information, and Reflexive Futurity in Ye Yonglie’s Outbreak Narratives

• Haerin Shin. The Space Between 1s and 0s: Intentional Patiency as Reciprocation in Computational Creativity

REVIEW ESSAY

• Caroline Edwards. Black Possibility: Eshun’s In The Black Fantastic

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Conrad and Wiebe’s Educational Fabulations (Brittany Tomin)

• Cordasco’s Out of this World (Regina Kanyu Wang)

• Higgins’s Anne Leckie’s ANCILLARY JUSTICE: A Critical Companion (Veronica Hollinger)

• Mitchell’s Utopia and Its Discontents(Rick Cousins)

• Roberts/Milner/Murphy’s Science Fiction and Narrative Form (Rjurik Davidson)

• Strait and Conwill’s Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures (Joy Sanchez-Taylor)

• Vakoch’s Ecofeminist Science Fiction (Megan Stowe)

• Wu Yan’s Chinese SF in the Twentieth Century (Shaoming Duan)

• Yoshinaga/Guynes/Canavan’s Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction (Chris Pak)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• 2023 Mullen Grants Announced (Sherryl Vint, SFS)
• SFRA’s New Scholar Program (Ida Yoshinaga)
• SFRA Student Paper Award Submissions (SFRA)
• CFP New Perspectives on the Undead (Simon Bacon)
• CFP on the Place and Role of Animals in Contemporary Media (Rastyam T. Aliev, Editor of Galactica)
• CFP: AI and Fandom (Suzanne R. Black and Naomi Jacobs for Transformative Works and Cultures)
• Call for Applications: Mullen Grants for 2024 (Lisa Swanstrom. SFS)
• Call for a Short Commentary on AI (Lisa Swanstrom, SFS)

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