Discussion of Scholarship

Call for Papers: World Science Fiction Film Edited Volume

The study of science fiction cinema has focused on film from the United States with some notable exceptions. Although many of the famous and most lucrative contributions to the genre come from Hollywood, a number of other countries around the world have produced both popular and avant garde science fiction films. Even today, despite the globalization of the genre, American and even foreign scholarship continue to limit analysis to the United States.

May I recommend to your members my new novel FALLING TO DESTINY by Peter Fleming? I'd be keen to hear back some analysis.

Hymoliga Eight (a mobile talking Martian plant), Kim Hawthorne (a space ethicist from the not so distant future) and the mysterious narrator who goes by the name of "Ishmael Starbuck" join together as fugitives through space and time, travelling to Titan, where all art has been banned, to renaissance Finland (where they encounter the alien race known as "sea monks") and to distant Tarsarsus, which is being ravaged by self-perfecting robots called the Pelagyans.