Table of Contents
FROM THE SFRA REVIEW
Spring 2021 (From the Editor) • Ian Campbell
Call for Applications: SFRA Review Associate Editor
Become a Reviewer! Nonfiction, Fiction and Media Available for Review
FROM THE SFRA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
From the President • Gerry Canavan
From the Vice President • Sonja Fritzsche
THE REVIEW AT FIFTY
The SFRA Review at Fifty: Interrogating Our History • The Editorial Collective
Call For Papers: Interrogating Our History
FEATURES
The SF in Translation Universe #11 • Rachel Cordasco
SFRA Country Report: India • Vishnu Prasad Thandassery Radhakrishnan
Call for Papers: Trans-Indigenous Science Fictions
FICTION
1761 • Tang Fei (Translated by Xueting Christine Ni)
SYMPOSIUM: CHINESE SCIENCE FICTION AND THE WORLD
Chinese Science Fiction in the Global Context • Yan Wu, Jianbin Yao and Jinyi Chu
The Global Reception of Chinese Science Fiction
The Wind of the Future Blows from China • Francesco Verso
Sino-American SF: Trans-national Participatory Culture and Translation • Nathaniel Isaacson
Chinese Science Fiction in Contemporary Russia • Jinyi Chu
Chinese Sci-Fi in the Arab World • Linyao Ma
The Chinese Reception of Global Science Fiction
Sci-Fi Film Studies in Mainland China • Xin Wang
China’s Pluralistic Studies of English Science Fiction: Doctoral Dissertations as Examples • Chan Li
Finding Missing Pieces of the Jigsaw Puzzle: A Survey of Japanese Science Fiction Studies in China • Jin Zhao
Science Fiction Education in China: Then and Now • Wei Guo
Science Fiction and the Method: Forum 1
World Literature as an Approach in the Study of Chinese Science Fiction • Mengtian Sun
Chinese Science Fiction and Environmental Criticism: From the Anthropocentric to the Cosmocentric • Hua Li
The Possibilities and “Impossibilities” of Studying Chinese and Latin American Science Fiction • Yilun Fan
Cultural Exceptionalism in the New Generation of Chinese Science Fiction • Yuan Liu
The State of the Field: Forum 2
Interactions Between Science Fiction and Mainstream Literary Criticism • Ling Zhan
Chinese Science Fiction of the Republican Era, 1912-1949 • Dongmei Ren
The Development of Science Fiction Studies in 21st-Century China • Yiping Wang
The History and Reality of Chinese Science Fiction Studies • Zhenyu Jiang
SYMPOSIUM: LIVING IN THE END TIMES
The “Living in the End Times” Conference • Nora Castle, Heather Alberro, Emrah Atasoy, Rhiannon Firth and Conrad Scott
Diseased Bodies Entangled: Literary and Cultural Crossroads of Posthuman Narrative Agents • Başak Ağın & Şafak Horzum
Podcasting in a Pandemic: Dystopian Audio Drama in 2020 Brazil • Benjamin Burt
Imperialism is a Plague, Too: Transatlantic Pandemic Imaginaries in César Mba Abogo’s “El sueño de Dayo” (2007) and Junot Díaz’s “Monstro” (2012) • Giulia Champion
The Wrong Kind of Viral: Post-Apocalyptic Pandemics in Contemporary North American Fiction • Katrin Isabel Schmitt
The Underside of Time • Laura Denning
Apocalypse Never: Walter Benjamin, the Anthropocene, and the Deferral of the End • Gregory Marks
Pandemics in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction: Rethinking the (Post)Human • Tânia Cerqueira
Dreaming as Pharmakon in Larissa Lai’s “Salt Fish Girl” and Cherie Dimaline’s “The Marrow Thieves” • Özlem Öğüt Yazıcıoğlu and Allison Mackey
Connectivity and Collectivity: Network- Oriented Sociological Storytelling, Intra-Action, and the Pandemic Response Scenario in Greg Bear’s “Darwin’s Radio” • Ben Horn and Jayde Martin
Living Beyond the End Times: An Argument for Queer Utopianism • Ariel Kroon
The Failure of Progress and the Example of Fraternity in Mary Shelley’s “The Last Man” • Zsolt Czigányik
NONFICTION REVIEWS
Review of Theory for the World to Come: Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology • Gabriel A. Saldías Rossel
Review of Sideways in Time: Critical Essays on Alternate History Fiction • Carl Abbott
Review of EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest • Dominick Grace
Review of The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games • Jonathan W. Thurston-Torres
Review of Star Wars after Lucas: A Critical Guide to the Future of the Galaxy • Benjamin J. Robertson
Review of Undead Ends: Stories of Apocalypse • Daniel Helsing
Review of Suburban Fantastic Cinema: Growing Up in the Late Twentieth Century • Rob Latham
Review of The Paradox of Blackness in African American Vampire Fiction • Misha Grifka Wander
FICTION REVIEWS
Review of Docile • Adam McLain
Review of Border Crosser • Ed Carmien
MEDIA REVIEWS
Review of Color Out of Space • Lúcio Reis-Filho
Review of The Comma Press Podcast, Series 2 – Futures • Paul March-Russell
Review of The Expanse • Heather Clitheroe and Mark A. McCutcheon
Review of Snowpiercer (TV series) • Ada Cheong
Review of Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 1 • Jeremy Brett
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