Vol. 54, No. 3 (Summer 2024)




Table of Contents


FROM THE SFRA REVIEW

Summer 2024 (From the Editor)  •  Ian Campbell

CALL FOR PAPERS: Alternative Governance in Science Fiction

Become a Reviewer! Nonfiction, Fiction and Media Available for Review



FROM THE SFRA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

From the President  •  Hugh O’Connell

Meeting Futures in the Face of An Age-Diverse Academic Labor Market  •  Ida Yoshinaga

SFRA Awards Presented at the 2024 “Transitions” Conference at The University of Tartu



SYMPOSIUM: SCIENCE FICTION AND SOCIALISM

Introduction • Virginia L. Conn

The Low Bar: Crisis and Utopia in M. E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi’s Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 (2022) • Gabriel Burrow

Integrating Humans with Machines: Cybernetics and Early 1960s Chinese Science Fiction • Ruiying Zhang

Social Science Fiction and Utopia: Ruhşen Doğan Nar’s “Wake Up!” Long Story • Meltem Dağcı

Andrei Platonov’s Literalization of Reality; on the Planet Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Satellite • Pavla Veselá

When the Gods Died: A Socialist Utopian Novel from East Germany • Chiara Viceconti



NONFICTION REVIEWS

Review of Life, Rescaled: The Biological Imagination in 21st-Century Literature and Performance • Zak Breckenridge

Review of Robert Holdstock’s Mythago Wood • Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook

Review of The Lion’s Country: C. S. Lewis’s Theory of the Real • James Hamby

Review of Resurrection: Comics in Post-Soviet Russia • Oskari Rantala

Review of The Grey Chamber: Stories and Essays • Indu Ohri

Review of Women, Science and Fiction Revisited • Sarah Nolan-Brueck

Review of Supernatural: A History of Television’s Unearthly Road Trip • Dominick Grace

Review of The Hundred Greatest Superhero Films and TV Shows • Dan Brown



FICTION REVIEWS

Review of The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles • Jeremy Brett

Review of The Kaiju Preservation Society • Kristine Larsen

Review of The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain • Timothy S. Miller

Review of Rabbits • Brianna Best



MEDIA REVIEWS

Review of Scavengers Reign • Phoenix Alexander

Review of Dune: Part Two • Mark McCleerey

Review of Fallout, season 1 • Mehdi Achouche

Review of Ms. Marvel • Jeremy Brett

Review of Poor Things • Jess Maginity