SFRA Review Issue 297 Now Available
Issue number 297 is now available for download online at sfra.org under the following direct link: http://www.sfra.org/sfra-review/297.pdf
In its pages - and there are more than there used to be (a plus for digital) - you will find not only a bulk load of SFRA related information from the 2011 conference in Lublin (minutes, reports, speeches and awards) but also four - I repeat, four! - "Feature 101" articles, which introduce members of the SFRA to new and worthy aspects of SF. Two of those features open up the SFRA to Spanish language SF, reflecting the association's orientation towards internationality. Alfredo Suppia and Lúcio Reis Filho introduce us to South American SF film while Fernando Ángel Moreno reveals the works of Spanish SF writers to an English language audience. Similar to the international perspective of the first two "Feature 101" articles, the second pair showcases an interdisciplinary approach to SF, introducing unique views from other fields of scholarship. Victor Grech, Clare Thake-Vassallo and Ivan Callus view the interconnection of SF and medicine while Ryan Speer discusses a special collection librarian's view on teaching SF by using historical books and magazines in a 21st century classroom. And of course, enhancing this tightly packed "101" information the new issue also provides a large amount of reviews of recent scholarship, fiction and media titels concerning SF. But why not just decide for yourself that the PDF is a download-must? Here is the table of contents:
SFRA Review Business
Global Science Fiction 2
SFRA Business
There’s No Place Like Home 2
Praise and Thanks 4
Conventions, Conferences, SFRA and You 4
ASLE-SFRA Affiliation Update 5
Executive Committee Business 6
July 2011 Executive Committee Minutes 6
SFRA Business Meeting Minutes 10
SFRA Awards Update 10
2010-2011 SFRA Awards
Remarks for Pilgrim Award 11
Pilgrim Award Acceptance Speech 12
Remarks for Pioneer Award 19
Pioneer Award Acceptance Speech 19
Remarks for Clareson Award 20
Clareson Award Acceptance Speech 21
Remarks for Mary Kay Bray Award 21
Mary Kay Bray Award Acceptance Speech 21
Remarks for Student Paper Award 22
Student Paper Award Acceptance Speech 22
Feature 101
Draft for a Critical History of Argentine Science Fiction 23
Recent Spanish Science Fiction and Its Modes 29
“Not only the World as it is, but the world as it will be:” Medicine and Science Fiction 32
Using Book History to Teach Science Fiction 39
Nonfiction Reviews
From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe 40
Kim Stanley Robinson Maps the Unimaginable: Critical Essays 41
The Unsilent Library: Essays on the Russell T Davies Era of the New Doctor Who 44
Black Atlantic Speculative Fictions:
Octavia Butler, Jewelle Gomez, and Nalo Hopkinson 46
Fiction Reviews
Tesseracts 14: Strange Canadian Stories 47
The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: A Critical Edition 49
Hex 51
Rule 34 52
Deceiver and Betrayer 53
The Highest Frontier 55
Media Reviews
La Jetée and La Vie d’un Chien 56
Hereafter 58
Being Human 59
The Bionic Woman 60
The Mongoliad 62
