Table of Contents
FROM THE SFRA REVIEW
Summer 2021 (From the Editor) • Ian Campbell
The SFRA Review’s Transition to Partial Peer Review • The Editorial Collective
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
Post-SFRA Executive Committee Meeting Notes • Sean Guynes
2020 Treasurer’s Report • Hugh C. O’Connell
SFRA Proposed Bylaw Amendments 2021 • Gerry Canavan
SFRA Bylaws with Amendments Added • Gerry Canavan
Statements from Candidates for SFRA Offices • Keren Omry
SELECTED PROCEEDINGS FROM THE 2021 SFRA CONFERENCE
Some Thoughts on Capitalist Futures: An Excerpt from the SFRA 2021 Keynote • Lars Schmeink
List of SFRA 2020 Award Winners
Recipient’s Statement for the Support a New Scholar Award 2020 • Guangzhao Lyu
Recipient’s Statement for the Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science Book Award 2020 • Melody Jue
Remarks on the Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science Book Award 2020 • Pawel Frelik
Recipients’ Statements for the Mary Kay Bray Award 2020 • Virginia L. Conn and Andy Duncan
Remarks on the Mary Kay Bray Award 2020 • Agnieszka Kotwasińska, Jessica FitzPatrick and Rich Horton
Recipient’s Statement for the Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service 2020 • Grace Dillon
Remarks on the Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service 2020 • Sherryl Vint
Remarks on the Innovative Research Award 2020 • Stefan “Steve” Rabitsch
Recipient’s Statement for the SFRA Book Award 2020 • Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee
Remarks on the SFRA Book Award 2020 • Keren Omry
Recipient’s Statement for the Lifetime Contributions to SF Scholarship Award • Veronica Hollinger
Remarks on the Lifetime Contributions to SF Scholarship Award 2020 • Amy J. Ransom
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 #12 • Rachel Cordasco
SFRA Country Report: Germany • Julia Gatermann and Lars Schmeink
The Science Fiction Foundation at Fifty • Paul March-Russell
The Life and Work of Bulgarian SF Writer Lyuben Dilov • Andy Erbschloe
FICTION
“Even If They Leave” • Lyuben Dilov
SYMPOSIUM: MORMONISM AND SF
A Critical Introduction to Latter-Day Saint Speculative Fiction • Adam McLain
Information Science in Latter-day Saint Theology • Carl Grafe
Gods and Monsters in Latter-day Saint Reconciliation Stories • Alan Manning and Nicole Amare
Re-visioning an American Angel: Mythopoesis in The Tales of Alvin Maker • Paul Williams
Soulful Theatre: Mormon Theology of the Body in the Science Fiction Plays of Orson Scott Card • Kristin Perkins
The Translation of a Mormon Alien in “That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made” • Dale J. Pratt
The Most Mormon Magic System: How Brandon Sanderson Turned Agency into Fantasy • Liz Busby
Building on the Vision: Mormon “Humanism” in Battlestar Galactica (2004-2009) • James H. Thrall
“Mormons” in Leviathan Wakes: Applying the Church/Sect Typology • Rebekah Call
Sex, Attachment, and the Quest for a Universalist Ethic in Mormonism and Star Wars • Ian McLaughlin
‘Not Every God’: Theosis and The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms • Conor Hilton
SELECTED PAPERS FROM THE 2021 ICFA CONFERENCE
“Master harmonizers”: Making Connections in the Post-Disaster World of Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti Novella Series • Iuliia Ibragimova
Wolves and Werewolves: How Our Beliefs About One Influence the Other • S.M. Mack
Terradeformation: Unsettling Environments, Knowledge, and Control in Recent Speculative Fictions • Aaron Gabriel Montalvo
Locating Blackness at the End of the World: N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth and the Black Anthropocene • Misha Grifka Wander
Make the Familiar Strange: Decolonizing Speculative Fiction Through Postcolonial Visibility • Marisca Pichette
The Reclamation of McCaffrey’s The Ship Who Sang: Irony as Resistance to Utopian Ableist Narratives • Tessa Swehla
Against Man: Violence and the Vegetal in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian • Cynthia Zhang
NONFICTION REVIEWS
Review of Science Fiction Rebels: The Story of the Science Fiction Magazines from 1981 to 1990 • B.L. King
Review of Inception (Constellations: Studies in Science Fiction Film and TV) • Bruce A. Beatie
Review of Star Wars Meets the Eras of Feminism • Kara Kennedy
Review of High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica and Visionary Experience in the Seventies • Terence Sawyers
Review of Italian Science Fiction • Sean D. Memolo
Review of Joanna Russ • Anna McFarlane
Review of Kim Stanley Robinson • Tara Smith
Review of The Cyberpunk Nexus: Exploring the Blade Runner Universe • Terence Sawyers
Review of Lost Transmissions: The Secret History of Science Fiction and Fantasy • Raymond K. Rugg
FICTION REVIEWS
“Our Bodies Dazzle in the Light”: A Review of Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction • Jeremy M. Carnes
Review of His Master’s Voice and Return from the Stars • Jeremy Brett
MEDIA REVIEWS
Review of The Outer Worlds (video game) • Sara Walker
Review of Wonder Woman 1984 (film) • Jeremy Brett
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