Vol. 53, No. 1 (Winter 2023)




Table of Contents


FROM THE SFRA REVIEW

Winter 2023 (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  •  Hugh O’Connell

From the Vice President  •  Ida Yoshinaga


CALLS FOR PAPERS

Call for Papers: Adaptations in SF • The Editorial Collective

Call for Papers: Science Fiction in Translation, vol. 2 • Ian Campbell


FEATURES

The SF in Translation Universe #16 • Rachel Cordasco

“It’s Better to Hope than Mope”: Evaluating the Biopolitics of Hope in The Year of the Flood and The Tiger Flu • Sababa Monjur

Queer Time in Space: Helen S. Wright’s A Matter of Oaths and Non-reproductive Futures • Sabina Fazli

Calling from the Margins of Perception in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction • Bo Ærenlund Sørensen

Delhi at the Margins • Aishwarya Subramanian

Extractive Practices Depicted in Adrish Bardhan’s Science Fiction • Monali Chatterjee

Exploring Dalit-Futurism in Caste-Flavored Techno-Scientific Worlds • Priteegandha Naik

Mutating the Margins: A Disability Studies Reading of the Undertheorized in/Human in SF • Michael Dale Stokes

Masculinity in Dystopian Science Fiction: Masculinity Construction in the Context of Gender Roles in R.U.R. • Meltem Dağcı

Why Women Can’t Be Space Marines…or Priests: Warhammer 40K and Catholic Theology • Jess Flarity



NONFICTION REVIEWS

Review of The Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel • Nathaniel P. Doherty

Review of Fantasies of Time and Death • Maria K. Alberto

Review of New Blood: Critical Approaches to Contemporary Horror • Jonathan W. Thurston-Torres

Review of Extreme Fabulations: Science Fictions of Life • Mattia Petricola

Review of The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination • Jack Durant

Review of Pop Culture for Beginners • Kania Greer

Review of Fighting for the Future: Essays on Star Trek Discovery • Vincent M. Gaine

Review of Monstrous Women in Comics • Brianna Anderson

Review of Biology and Manners: Essays on the Worlds and Works of Lois McMaster Bujold • Jerome Winter

Review of The Computer’s Voice: From Star Trek to Siri • Bryce L. King



FICTION REVIEWS

Review of Black Sun • Athira Unni

Review of January Fifteenth • Jeremy Brett

Review of The Galaxy, and the Ground Within • Gabriela Lee



MEDIA REVIEWS

Review of The Orville: New Horizons • Jeremy Brett

Review of Hades • David Welch