Table of Contents
FROM THE SFRA REVIEW
Summer 2023 (From the Editor) • Ian Campbell
The SFRA Review Seeks a Social Media Manager • 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
FEATURES
The SF in Translation Universe #17 • Rachel Cordasco
Brazilian Afrofuturism, Heuristic Function, and the Mass Cultural Genre System • Patrick Brock
The Alchemy of History: Balancing Alteration and Retention in A Master of Djinn • Paul Williams
Not Another Cog in the Biopolitical Machine: K. Ceres Wright and Afrofuturist Cyberfunk • Graham J. Murphy
Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon: Queer Ecogothic Africanfuturism • Luke Chwala
Afrofuturist Women of the Water : Mami Wata, Sirens, Predators, Deities, Metamorphosis, and Survival • Gina Wisker
NONFICTION REVIEWS
Review of Science Fiction • R. Baker
Review of Dangerous Visions and New Worlds • Mark Scroggins
Review of William Gibson and the Futures of Contemporary Culture • Jonathan P. Lewis
Review of Heroes Masked and Mythic: Echoes of Ancient Archetypes in Comic Book Characters • Vincent M. Gaine
Review of Doctor Who and Science: Essays on Ideas, Identities and Ideologies in the Series • John McLoughlin
Review of Speculative Epistemologies: An Eccentric Account of SF from the 1960s to the Present • Paul Graham Raven
Review of Reverse Colonization: Science Fiction, Imperial Fantasy, and Alt-Victimhood • Jeremy Brett
Review of Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds • John Rieder
Review of After Human: A Critical History of the Human in Science Fiction from Shelley to Le Guin • Lars Schmeink
Review of Chinese and Western Influence in Liu Cixin’s Three Body Trilogy • Jerome Winter
FICTION REVIEWS
Review of A Psalm for the Wild-Built • Brianna Best
Review of Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction • Jeremy Brett
Review of Defekt • Yimin Xu
MEDIA REVIEWS
Review of Andor • Jamie Woodcock
Review of Everything Everywhere All at Once • Jeremy Brett
Review of The Peripheral, season 1 • Ian Campbell
Review of Neptune Frost • Özgür Çalışkan
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