Table of Contents
FROM THE SFRA REVIEW
Summer 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
Call For Papers: Conservative/Right-Wing SF • The Editorial Collective
Melancholia, Assimilation, and Genre in Charles Yu’s How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe • Cynthia Zhang
“I’m a Node Worker Too”: Mexican Cyborgs as Resources and Resistance in Sleep Dealer • Karen Dollinger
Mother’s Madness: The Silent Struggle of Mothers in African American Literature and Film • Aileen Fonsworth
Transcendence: Facing Intergenerational Trauma through Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred and “Bloodchild” • Candice Thornton
Fictional Foresight and Autism Advocacy: The Role of Science Fictional Narratives in Unearthing Eugenic Motivations • Ryan Collis
Race, Utopia, and the Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Zombie Narrative • Julia Lindsay
“But the planet’s what matters, right?”: The Entangled Environmentalism of Three Final Fantasy VII Remake Communities • Andrew Barton
Understanding the Modern Episteme through H. G. Wells • Noah Slowik
Same As It Ever Was?: Portrayals of Appalachia in William Gibson’s The Peripheral • Jennifer Krause
“You telling me my ass isn’t a werewolf”: Science fiction ontology and representing queerness in Gail Carriger’s Parasolverse • Jack Murray
Subversion of Patriarchal Norms Through the Metaphor of Mythology in Indian Science Fiction • Simran Gindwani
The Relationship Between Solarpunk and Ecofeminism • Meltem Dağcı
Cosmism and Afrofuturism: Life Against Death • Julia Tikhonova Wintner
FICTION
SYMPOSIUM: SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND SCIENCE FICTION
Content Warning: The following essays in this collection contain, to various degrees, depictions and conversations around sexual violence.
Introduction to Sexual Violence and Science Fiction Symposium • Adam McLain
The Dune Universe And Sexual Violence: An Ongoing Struggle • Eyal Soffer
Rape and Hope: Consolidating Identities and Hierarchies in Contemporary Feminist Dystopias • Athira Unni
The End of Rape? Essentializing Masculinity in Male Extinction Dystopias • Verónica Mondragón Paredes
Sport SF and the Male Body: Estranged (Non-)Consent in Swanwick’s “The Dead” • Derek Thiess
Sexual Assault After Apocalypse: The Limited Logic of Natural Selection • Ryn Yee and Octavia Cade
Octavia Butler’s Dawn in the #MeToo Era • Julia Lindsay
Weaponisation of Sex in Tabletop Role-playing Games: Surface Theme vs. Game Mechanic • Dax Thomas
“Fight Back or Die”: Rape, Revenge, and the Supernatural in Tomb Raider • Kenzie Gordon
Sexual Violence Toward a Digitised Body: Fan and Developer Gaze in the Mass Effect Trilogy • Steph Farnsworth
Tackling Trauma and Sexual Assault in Young Adult Fantasy: Kristin Cashore’s Bitterblue • Cheyenne Heckermann
SYMPOSIUM: MEDICAL HUMANITIES AND THE FANTASTIC
A Glimpse into the Lived Experience of Diversity • Mónika Rusvai
Autism, Film & Estrangement • David Hartley
Hauntology and Lost Futures: Trauma Narratives in the Contemporary Gothic • Emma Dee
Out of Time: Crip Time and Fantastic Resistance • Josefine Wälivaara
“City of Unseen Steps”: Blindness and Palimpsestual Sensory Impressions in Jonathan Dark or the Evidence of Ghosts • Sarah Neef
Productive Bodyminds in Samuel R. Delany’s Babel-17 • Leigha McReynolds
NONFICTION REVIEWS
Review of J.R.R. Tolkien: A Guide for the Perplexed • Audrey Isabel Taylor
Review of Eco-Vampires: The Undead and Environment • Mihaela Stoica
Review of Science Fiction • Jack Durant
Review of Plants in Science Fiction: Speculative Vegetation • Nora Castle
Review of Ms. Marvel’s America: No Normal • Michael Dittman
Review of Imagining the Unimaginable: Speculative Fiction and the Holocaust • Jeremy Brett
Review of Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century • Michael Pitts
Review of Harry Potter and Beyond: On J.K. Rowling’s Fantasies and Other Fictions • Kristin Noone
Review of Jordan Peele’s Get Out: Political Horror • Rebecca Hankins
Review of Science Fiction and Climate Change: A Sociological Approach • Jerome Winter
FICTION REVIEWS
Review of Hunting by Stars • Jeremy Carnes
MEDIA REVIEWS
Review of The Witcher, season 2 • Cait Coker
Review of Don’t Look Up • Steven Holmes
Review of Final Fantasy VII Remake • Lúcio Reis-Filho
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