Table of Contents
FROM THE SFRA REVIEW
Namárië (From the Editor ) • Sean Guynes
FROM THE SFRA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
From the President • Gerry Canavan
From the Vice President • Sonja Fritzsche
FEATURES
The Modern High Fantasy Novel was Born in France: An Essay on Reverse Literary History • Mariano Martín Rodríguez
The SF in Translation Universe #9 • Rachel Cordasco
Meet the Future: An Interview with Nichole Nomura • Nichole Nomura
Introducing the 2020-2021 Support a Scholar Grant Recipient: Ida Yoshinaga • Ida Yoshinaga
SYMPOSIUM: THE CYBERPUNK CULTURE CONFERENCE
The CyberPunk Culture Conference • Lars Schmeink
The Horror of Direct Experience: Cyberpunk Bodies and “The Machine Stops” • Rachel Berger
Fabulation of Alternative Parallel Universes: Queertopia in Turkish Science Fiction • Sümeyra Buran
The Fractal Subject and the Hologram Rose: On Baudrillard & Cyberpunk as Media Theory • Jiré Emine Gözen
Cyberpunk in the Modern Museum. Actuality, Future and the Challenges of Exhibiting Movie Memorabilia • Agnieszka Kiejziewicz
Ontology of the Hologram: Gothic Tropes and the Ontological Transgressions of Technoscience • Anastasia Klimchynskaya
“The (Cyber) Center Cannot Hold”: Futures, Bodies and Minds in William Gibson’s The Peripheral • Carmen M. Méndez-García
Pants Scientists and Bona Fide Cyber Ninjas: Tracing the Poetics of Cyberpunk Menswear • Esko Suoranta
SYMPOSIUM: EUROPEAN SPECULATIVE FICTION AND THE POLITICAL
Introducing the Symposium on European Speculative Fiction and the Political • Sabrina Mittermeier and Ashumi Shah
Unheard Voices: The Time Travelling Woman as Writer of History • Amanda Dillon
“Just as Orwell said”: The Emergence of a “Dystopian Framing” in French Conservative Media in the 2010s • Aurélie Olivesi and Zoé Kergomard
Black Mirror Prosumers and the Contemporary Domain • Ashumi Shah
Architectural Responses in Alternative Realities: the Politics of Space through Fiction in Architectural Education • Phevos Kallitsis and Martin Andrews
NONFICTION REVIEWS
Review of Publishing the Science Fiction Canon: The Case of Scientific Romance • James Allard
Review of Posthuman Folklore • Peter Cullen Bryan
Review of None of This Is Normal: The Fiction of Jeff VanderMeer • Thomas Connolly
Review of Other Worlds: Spirituality and the Search for Invisible Dimensions • Aga J. Drenda
Review of Transformative Heroines in Young Adult Dystopian Literature • Kelly J. Drumright
Review of “The Sweet and the Bitter”: Death and Dying in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings • Dominick Grace
Review of Alternate Worlds: The Illustrated History of Science Fiction • Donald M. Hassler
Review of Desire and Empathy in Twentieth-Century Dystopian Fiction • Adam Heidebrink-Bruno
Review of Thrills Untapped: Neglected Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films, 1928-1936 • Michael Pitts
Review of Economic Science Fictions • Bruce Lindsley Rockwood
MEDIA REVIEWS
Review of Outer Wilds (2019, video game) • Jennifer Baker
Review of Devs, season 1 (2020, TV series) • Miguel Sebastián-Martín
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