Professional Development

Results of a research ( in the Iranian Center of Science Fiction Studies) provided a response to an important fundamental question : What is a suitable scientific framework for Science Fiction studies ?
In brief , systematic studies of Science Fiction is multifariouses and necessitates a comprehensive discipline . Conceptual model of Scifictology shows that it is an appropriate framework for consolidated comprehensive inter-disciplinary studies of various aspects of Science Fiction by different approaches .
In this basis the Scifictology included several sub-disciplines such as :

Dear All,

We are happy to declare a new academic website:

World Chinese-language Science Fiction Workshop

http://www.chinesescifi.org/

This site is intended to be an online community for those who share interest in Chinese-language science fiction studies. A brief introduction is available at:

http://www.chinesescifi.org/about

I thought it might be useful to compile of list of publishers who take on sf criticism. Here's a few that have been mentioned so far:

U of Michigan P
Duke UP
Ohio State UP
U of Minnesota P
McFarland
Greenwood
Wesleyan UP
U of Liverpool P
Verso
Wallflower

Others?

i am new to this organisation so i might introduce myself:
my name is dietrich killer, i am a graduate student in linz austria,
and i currently collect data for my PhD thesis in cultural sciences about the reflection of the arts in science fiction.
i based my initial reseach on the content of three novels:
"count zero" by william gibson
"perdido street station" by china mieville
and "absolution gap" by alasteir reynolds
these were, to me, the most exemplary samples to start with.
of course there`s lots of other stuff out there - and that`s the reason i joined

Hi. I have several questions I'd like to post under different topics regarding professional development, i.e., the publishing and promoting of book-length works of sf criticism. It's my hope that this forum will be especially useful to graduate students and scholars who don't have much experience with the (scholarly) publishing industry. Here's the first one: