Vol. 53, No. 2 (Spring 2023)




Table of Contents


FROM THE SFRA REVIEW

Spring 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: Science Fiction in Translation, vol. 2, updated • Ian Campbell


FEATURES

Slavic Folklore, Communism, and Time: Lyuben Dilov • Andy Erbschloe

New Materialist Considerations about The Man from Mars by Stanislaw Lem • Malgorzata Kowalcze

Violating the Ecotopian Promise: Reading Colonial Extraction in Amitav Ghosh’s The Living Mountain • Jasmine Sharma

Chunks, or a Tin-Opener’s View of Late Capitalism • Graham Head

Discard as Extractive Zone in Chen Qiufan’s Waste Tide • Paromita Patranobish



NONFICTION REVIEWS

Review of The Routledge Introduction to Canadian Fantastic Literature • Ben Eldridge

Review of Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life • Mayurika Chakravorty

Review of Tolkien and the Classical World • James Hamby

Review of Seconds • Steven Shaviro

Review of Epistemological Warfare and Hope in Critical Dystopia • Jade Hinchliffe

Review of Roger Zelazny • Bruce Lindsley Rockwood

Review of Fear and Nature: Ecohorror Studies in the Anthropocene • Jonathan W. Thurston-Torres

Review of Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color • C. Palmer-Patel

Review of The Culture of “The Culture” • Jeremy Brett

Review of Renegades and Rogues: The Life and Legacy of Robert E. Howard • William Perpétuo Busch



FICTION REVIEWS

Review of The 2084 Report • Ada Cheong

Review of A Master of Djinn • Ian Campbell

Review of Memory’s Legion • Robert J. Creedon

Review of The Mimicking of Known Successes • Jeremy Brett

Review of Elder Race • Lucy Nield



MEDIA REVIEWS

Review of Prey • Jeremy Brett

Review of The Last of Us • Lúcio Reis-Filho

Review of New Gods: Yang Jian • Yimin Xu