Vol. 55, No. 1 (Winter 2025)




Table of Contents


FROM THE SFRA REVIEW

Winter 2025 (From the Editor)  •  Ian Campbell

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  •  Chris Pak

Open Call for Nominations: 2025 SFRA Innovative Research Award



CALLS FOR PAPERS

From Pandora’s Box to The City of the Sun: Utopia and Dystopia in Turkish Science Fiction Literature



FICTION

Three Tastings of the Delicacy • Baoshu • Translated by Xueting C. Ni

ChangÉ persists • Joseph Brant



FEATURES

Thirty Years Later: Sacred Scripture, Ghost in The Shell, and Our Lady of Perpetual Cyberpunk • Brian DeLoach and Savannah Welch



NONFICTION REVIEWS

Review of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Utopianism and The Classics • Mariana Rios Maldonado

Review of Prepare for Zombies, Survive a Flood: Natural Disaster Lessons from Undead Cinema • Emma Austin

Review of A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? • Bruce Lindsley Rockwood

Review of Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea: A Critical Companion • Joseph Ironside



FICTION REVIEWS

Review of Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators Revolution • Carl Abbott

Review of Fractured Fairy Tales: A Mirror Mended • Michelle Anya Anjirbag

Review of The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport • Jeremy Brett

Review of The Archive Undying • Rebecca Hankins

Review of The Captain • Chelsea Rogers



MEDIA REVIEWS

Review of Starship Troopers: Extermination • Drew Adan

Review of Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities • Alice Fulmer

Review of Godzilla Minus One • Jeremy Brett

Review of Signalis • Bryn Shaffer