Table of Contents
FROM THE SFRA REVIEW
Fall 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
FEATURES
The SF in Translation Universe #13 • Rachel Cordasco
Chinese Science Fiction Studies in Japan • Noriko Yamamoto
Hidden Stars: A Conversation on Black Indie Speculative Fiction • Jalondra A. Davis and LaRose Davis
FICTION
“Wireheads” • Michael W. Clark
“Papa and the Steam Rifle” • Suzanne Church and Stephen Kotowych
SYMPOSIUM: TRANS-INDIGENOUS FUTURITY
Introduction: Composing Trans-Indigenous Futures • Jeremy M. Carnes
“Ghost Hunt” • Melissa Michal
On Writing “Ghost Hunt” and Preparing My Own Spirit • Melissa Michal
Sherman Slipstream: (Dis)Associating Settler Time • E. Ornelas
Wandering the World’s Most Isolated Metropolis: Structured Dispossession & Post-Apocalyptic Stress Syndrome in the Film Waikiki • Nicole Ku’uleinapuananiolikowapuhimelemeleolani Furtado
Trans-Indigenous Sci-Fi in French: Language and Temporality in Wapke • Malou Brouwer and Camille Roberge
Decolonizing the Post-Apocalyptic Landscape: Narratives of Fear, Hope, and Resilience in the Indigenous Arctic • Kelsey Lee
The Pursuit of Rhetorical Sovereignty in Indigenous Futurisms • Jesse Cohn
Beyond the End: Indigenous Futurisms’ Interventions in the Anthropocene • Abdenour Bouich
SELECTED PAPERS FROM SFRA 2021
Economics of Poverty Between the Posthuman and the Other in Ancillary Sword • Amanda Pavani Fernandes
Human and Animal Futurity: Survival, Flourishing, and Care in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy and Bong Joon-ho’s Okja • Monica Sousa
The Quiet Structures of Violence in Mennonite Science Fiction • Selena Middleton
Silicon Valley as Cult? Mystifying and Demystifying Surveillance Capitalism in Alex Garland’s Devs (2020) • Miguel Sebastián-Martín
“Daughters of Earth”: Experimentations in Domesticity • Robert Wood
Fragmentation, Coherence and Worldbuilding in Magic: The Gathering • Chris Pak
Roundtable: Can Chinese Science Fiction Transcend Binary Thinking? • Mia Chen Ma, Angela YT Chan, Yen Ooi, Frederike Schneider-Vielsäcker and Regina Kanyu Wang
Posthuman Mysticism: From the Zero Point of Humanity to the Parallel Worlds in The Gift • Sümeyra Buran
NONFICTION REVIEWS
Review of 12 Monkeys (Constellation) • Dominick Grace
Review of An Ecotopian Lexicon • Ray Davenport
Review of Yet Another Heart of Darkness: American Colonial Films • Frances Auld
Review of Children of Men (Constellation) • Zachary Ingle
Review of Climate Fictions • Bruce Lindsley Rockwood
Review of Inventing Tomorrow: H. G. Wells and the Twentieth Century • Steven Mollmann
Review of Stranger Things and Philosophy • Nicole C. Dittmer
Review of The Tragic Thread in Science Fiction • Dennis Wilson Wise
Review of The Order and the Other: Young Adult Utopian Literature and Science Fiction • Thomas J. Morrissey
Review of Gender and Environment in Science Fiction • Patrick Sharp
FICTION REVIEWS
Review of Chosen Spirits/The City Inside • Ruchira Mandal
Review of Sorrowland • Julia Lindsay
MEDIA REVIEWS
Review of Love, Death & Robots, season 2 (Netflix) • Jeremy Brett
Review of Loki (Disney+) • Zahra Rizvi
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