Science Fiction Studies

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ARTICLES

SPECIAL ISSUE ON SF AND GLOBALIZATION ( Edited by David Higgins and Rob Latham)

• David Higgins. Introduction   

• Symposium on Science Fiction and Globalization

• Roger Luckhurst. Laboratories for Global Space-Time: Science-Fictionality and the World’s Fairs, 1851-1939

• Sherryl Vint. Orange County: Global Networks in Tropic of Orange

• Lysa Rivera. Future Histories and Cyborg Labor: Reading Borderlands Science Fiction after NAFTA

• Diane Nelson. Pirates, Robbers, and Mayan Shamans: The Terrible and Fine Allure of the Spirits of Capital

• Jerome Winter. Epistemic Polyverses and the Subaltern: The Postcolonial World-System in Ian McDonald’s Evolution’s Shore and River of Gods

• Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. What Do We Mean When We Say “Global Science Fiction”? Reflections on a New Nexus
                 
  

REVIEW-ESSAYS

• Gerry Canavan. Decolonizing the Future: Langer’s Postcolonialism and Science Fiction and Hoagland/Sarwal’s Science Fiction Imperialism and the Third World       

• Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. Of Enigmas and Xenoencyclopedias: Saint-Gelais’s Modernités de la science-fiction and Langlet’s La science-fiction: Lecture et poétique d’un genre littéraire

• Terry Harpold. Other Kingdoms: Chatelain/Slusser’s Three Science Fiction Novellas by J.-H.Rosny aîné and Stableford’s The Navigators of Space and Other Alien Encounters by J.-H. Rosny aîné      

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Raja/Ellis/Nandi’s The Postnational Fantasy(Weihsin Gui)

• McCracken-Flesher’s Scotland as Science Fiction (Carol McGuirk)       

• Francis’s The Psychological Fictions of J.G. Ballard (Jeannette Baxter)

• Gibson’s Distrust that Particular Flavor (Jason W. Ellis)                               

• Edwards’s Race, Aliens, and the U.S. Government in African-American Science Fiction (Isiah Lavender III)

• Williams’s Race, Ethnicity and Nuclear War (Alan Lovegreen)

• Saler’s As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality (Brian Attebery)

• Willis’s Vision, Science and Literature, 1870-1920 (Patrick Parrinder)     

• Betz’s The Lesbian Fantastic (Amy J. Ransom)

• Rawlinson’s new edition of Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange (Michael Jarvis)

• Scheckter’s new edition of Neville’s The Isle of Pines (Paul Alkon)

• Kapell/McVeigh’s The Films of James Cameron (Stacey Abbott)

• Wasson/Alder’s Gothic Science Fiction (Elizabeth Berkebile McManus)   

• Eller’s Becoming Ray Bradbury (David Bañuelos)

• Lyau’s The Anticipation Novelists of 1950s French SF (Marie-Hélène Huet)       

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• Wartime Stories in Astounding (Edward Wysocki)         
• Evans Receives Clareson Award (Joan Gordon)
• Africa in Science Fiction (Mark Bould)  
• Note on the Pulp Magazines Project (Patrick Scott Belk)              
• SF at FAU (Carol McGuirk)          
• Third SF Hire at UC Riverside (Rob Latham)        
• Winners of the 2012 SF&F Translation Awards (Cheryl Morgan)               
• Calls for Papers and Other Announcements