Table of Contents
FROM THE SFRA REVIEW
From the Editor • Sean Guynes
FROM THE SFRA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
From the President • Gerry Canavan
From the Vice President • Sonja Fritzsche
FEATURES
The SF in Translation Universe #7 • Rachel Cordasco
Meet the Future: An Interview with Sarah Lohmann • Sarah Lohmann
SYMPOSIUM: MEDICAL HUMANITIES AND THE FANTASTIC
Medical Humanities and the Fantastic: Introduction to the Liverpool Symposium • Beata Gubacsi
The Fantastic Autistic: Creating Narrative from the “Anti-Narrative” Poetics of Neurodivergence • David Hartley
“That tub a’lard’s in our way!”: Obese Characters as Obstructive and Antagonistic in Horror-Based Digital Games • Connor Jackson
Articulating the Terror of Obstetric Violence in Carmen María Machado’s “The Husband Stitch” • Lucía López
Fungi as Destructive and Transformative in Rosewater by Tade Thompson and The Beauty by Aliya Whiteley • Jonathan Thornton
Xenotransplantation: The Haunting Possibilities for the Future within Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake • Lucy Nield
Freaks and Freakery in Film and History • Jenni Hunt
“Sick with Longing”: Sickness and Sexual Dissidence in the Victorian Gothic Imagination • Brontë Schiltz
NONFICTION REVIEWS
Review of The Culture Series of Iain M. Banks: A Critical Introduction by Simone Caroti • Edward Carmien
Review of I Am Legend as American Myth: Race and Masculinity in the Novel and Its Film Adaptations by Amy J. Ransom • J.R. Colmenero
Review of Science Fiction Circuits of the South and East edited by Anindita Banerjee and Sonja Fritzsche • Virginia L. Conn
Review of Iron Man vs. Captain America and Philosophy: Give Me Liberty or Keep Me Safe edited by Nicholas Michaud and Jessica Watkin • Michael J. Hancock
Review of Arabic Science Fiction by Ian Campbell • Steven Holmes
Review of A Dune Companion: Characters, Places and Terms in Frank Herbert’s Original Six Novels by Donald E. Palumbo • Kara Kennedy
Review of Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility by Alexis Lothian • Kristen Koopman
Review of Set Phasers to Teach! Star Trek in Research and Teaching edited by Stefan Rabitsch, Martin Gabriel, Wilfried Elmenreich, and John N.A. Brown • Bruce Lindsley Rockwood
Review of Bridges to Science Fiction and Fantasy: Outstanding Essays from the J. Lloyd Eaton Conferences edited by Gregory Benford, Gary Westfahl, Howard V. Hendrix, and Joseph D. Miller • David N. Samuelson
Review of Landscape and the Science Fiction Imaginary by John Timberlake • Patrick Whitmarsh
FICTION REVIEWS
Review of The Institute by Stephen King • Dominick Grace
Review of Twelve Tomorrows edited by Wade Roush • Dominick Grace
MEDIA REVIEWS
Review of Bacurau (2019, film) • Joe Brace
Review of Bezimena (2019, graphic novel) • Dominick Grace
Review of The OA, season 2 (2019, TV) • Carmen Victor
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