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
From the Treasurer • Hugh O’Connell
From the Secretary: Minutes of the 2020 Executive Committee Meeting • Sean Guynes
SFRA AWARDS 2019–2020
SFRA Award for Lifetime Contributions to SF Scholarship 2019 • Sherryl Vint
SFRA Innovative Research Award 2019 • Susan Ang
Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service 2019 • Wu Yan
Mary Kay Bray Award 2019 • Erin Horáková and Rich Horton
Student Paper Award 2019 • Conrad Scott
SFRA Book Award 2019 • Xiao Liu
Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies Book Prize 2019 • Natania Meeker and Antónia Szabari
FEATURES
“We’ll Free These Words From What Binds Them”: The Struggle over Information Curation in Fran Wilde’s The Fire Opal Mechanism • Jeremy Brett
From the Archives: “Texts of Letters about Nueva Dimensión,” SFRA Newsletter #1 (Jan. 1971) • Sean Guynes
The SF in Translation Universe #8 • Rachel Cordasco
Meet the Future: An Interview with Julia Gatermann • Julia Gatermann
SPECIAL ISSUE: ALTERNATIVE SINOFUTURISMS / 中华未来主义 / ZHONGHUA WEILAI ZHUYI
Sinofuturism and Chinese Science Fiction: an Introduction to the Alternative Sinofuturisms (中华未来主义) Special Issue • Virginia L. Conn, editor
A Discussion between Two French Translators of Chinese Science Fiction • Loïc Aloisio and Gwennaël Gaffric
Photographesomenonic Sinofuturism(s) • Virginia L. Conn
Sinofuturism as Inverse Orientalism: China’s Future and the Denial of Coevalness • Gabriele de Seta
The Science-Fictional in China’s Online Learning Initiatives • Margaret A. Fisher
China’s Sonic Fictions: Music, Technology, and the Phantasma of a Sinicized Future • Carmen Herold
Empathy, War, and Women • Amy Ireland
Capitalist Monster and Bottled Passengers: Political Stakes of Embodiment in The Reincarnated Giant and The Last Subway • Lyu Guangzhao
Data Narrator: Digital Chronotopes in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction • Astrid Møller-Olsen
Chinese Science Fiction: A Genre of Adversity • Yen Ooi
Images of Alternative Chinese Futures: Critical Reflections on the “China Dream” in Chen Qiufan’s “The Flower of Shazui” • Frederike Schneider-Vielsäcker
The Wandering Earth: A Device for the Propagation of the Chinese Regime’s Desired Space Narratives? • Molly Silk
Wondering about the Futures of the Wandering Earth: A Comparative Analysis of Liu Cixin’s “The Wandering Earth” and Frant Gwo’s Film Adaptation • Mitchell van Vuren
A Diagnosis of Sinofuturism from the Urban-Rural Fringe • Dino Ge Zhang
NONFICTION REVIEWS
Review of Apocalyptic Visions in 21st Century Films by Elizabeth A. Ford and Deborah C. Mitchell • Michele Braun
Review of Westworld and Philosophy: Mind Equals Blown edited by Richard Greene and Joshua Heter • Robert J. Creedon
Review of Stages of Transmutation: Science Fiction, Biology, and Environmental Humanism by Tom Idema • Nathaniel Doherty
Review of Posthumanism in Young Adult Fiction: Finding Humanity in a Posthuman World edited by Anita Tarr and Donna R. White • Anelise Farris
Review of RoboCop by Omar Ahmed • Dominick Grace
Review of Women in Doctor Who and The Women of Orphan Black by Valerie Estelle Frankel • Jeanne Hamming
Review of Telling It Like It Wasn’t: The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction by Catherine Gallagher • Glyn Morgan
Review of Martian Pictures: Analyzing the Cinema of the Red Planet by O’Brien Stanley, Nicki L. Michalski, Lane Roth, and Steven J. Zani • Thomas J. Morrissey
Review of Interpreting Anime by Christopher Bolton • Chris Reyns-Chikuma
Review of Philip K. Dick on Film by Gregg Rickman • Terence Sawyers
Review of Exploring Picard’s Galaxy: Essays on Star Trek: The Next Generation edited by Peter W. Lee • Todd K. Sformo
Review of The Myth Awakens: Canon, Conservatism, and Fan Reception of Star Wars edited by Ken Derry and John C. Lyden • Jessica Stanley
Review of Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded by Jason Heller • Nathaniel Williams
FICTION REVIEWS
Review of Portal B (a teleportation love story) by Drew Magary • Jonathan P. Lewis
Review of Sea Change by Nancy Kress • Jeremy Brett
Review of The Violent Century by Lavie Tidhar • Jeremy Brett
Review of Unholy Land by Lavie Tidhar • Amandine Faucheux
MEDIA REVIEWS
Review of The Platform (2020, film) • Emrah Atasoy
Review of LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS, season 1 (2019, TV) • Michael Pitts
Review of Another Life, season 1 (2019, TV) • Marta Suarez
Review of Rick and Morty, season 4 (2019-2020, TV) • Max Suechting
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