Vol. 52, No. 2 (Spring 2022)




Table of Contents


FROM THE SFRA REVIEW

Spring 2022 (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  •  Ida Yoshinaga


FEATURES

The SF in Translation Universe #15  •  Rachel Cordasco

Call For Papers: Masculinities and Science Fiction • Michael Pitts 



FICTION

Call For Submissions: Fiction

“How Long is the Road?” • Anthony Sheenard

“Writing on the Stone” • Csaba Béla Varga



ON THE EDGE: THE FANTASTIC IN HUNGARIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE

The Hungarian Way of Science Fiction • Sándor Szélesi


The Formability of History: Uchronia in Contemporary Hungarian Short Fiction • Áron Domokos

The Representation of Otherness in Contemporary Hungarian Urban Fantasy • Eva Vancsó

Poetic Justice for the Nonhuman Realm: Anita Moskát’s Irha és bőr as a Tool to Reflect on Public Life • András Molnár

Interview with Margit Sárdi

Interview with István “Steve” Szabó

Interview with Csilla Kleinheincz

Note to “On the Edge: The Fantastic in Hungarian Literature and Culture” • Beata Gubasci and Vera Benczik


NONFICTION REVIEWS

Review of Invoking Hope: Theory and Utopia in Dark Times  •  Adam McLain

Review of American Utopia: Literature, Society, and the Human Use of Human Beings • Jennifer K. Farrell

Review of Science Fiction and Catholicism: The Rise and Fall of the Robot Papacy • Dominick Grace

Review of Pluriversal Politics: The Real and the Possible • Pedro Ponce

Review of Midwestern Strange: Hunting Monsters, Martians, and the Weird in Flyover Country • Mark Soderstrom

Review of Planet Auschwitz: Holocaust Representation in Science Fiction and Horror Film and Television • Vibeke R. Petersen

Review of Radical Botany: Plants and Speculative Fiction • Kelli Shermeyer

Review of Science Fiction and Psychology • Sue Smith

Review of Furious Feminisms: Alternate Routes on Mad Max: Fury Road • Gabriella Colombo Machado

Review of The Supervillain Reader • Jeremy Brett



FICTION REVIEWS

Review of Flyaway • Jeremy Brett

Review of Machine • Ian Campbell

Review of The Seep • Lucy Nield



MEDIA REVIEWS

Review of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier • Jeremy Brett

Review of Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts • Steven Holmes

Review of Foundation, season 1 • Jari Käkelä

Review of The Matrix Resurrections • Sándor Klapcsik

Review of I’m Your Man [Ich bin dein Mensch] • T.S. Miller

Review of Raised by Wolves, season 2 • Daniel Lukes