Vol. 55, No. 2 (Spring 2025)




Table of Contents


FROM THE SFRA REVIEW

Spring 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



CALLS FOR PAPERS

Call for Papers: Short Takes on the 2025 Nebula and Hugo Award Nominees



SYMPOSIUM: ALTERNATIVE GOVERNANCE IN SCIENCE FICTION

Introduction • James Knupp

Touring Post-Capitalist Imaginaries after 2008 • Jeffrey Barber, Integrative Strategies Forum

Resisting Colonialist Politics Through Sex-Role Reversal: A Critical Reading of Octavia E. Butler’s “Bloodchild” • Anupom Kumar Hazarika

Science and Society in the Long View: Neal Stephenson’s Anathem as a Simulation of the Governance of Science • Zachary Gallagher Pirtle

Political Centralization in the Asimovian Canon • Zachary Reger

The Utopian Dimension of Starship Troopers: Pedagogy, Militarism, and a Post-Democratic Society • Robert Wood



NONFICTION REVIEWS

Review of Vision, Technology, and Subjectivity in Mexican Cyberpunk Literature • Josh Beckelhimer

Review of The Kaiju Connection: Giant Monsters and Ourselves • Amber A. Logan

Review of The Triumph of Babylon 5: The Science Fiction Classic and Its Long Twilight Struggles • Bruce Lindsley Rockwood



FICTION REVIEWS

Review of Polostan • Jonathan Lewis

Review of Rose/House • Sarah Nolan-Brueck

Review of The Mountain in the Sea • M.E. Boothby




MEDIA REVIEWS

Review of Once Upon A Time In The Future: 2121 • Özgür Çalışkan

Review of Agatha All Along • Jeremy Brett