{"title":"Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism by Alex Zamalin (review)","authors":"J. Lindsay","doi":"10.1353/sfs.2022.0070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sfs.2022.0070","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45553,"journal":{"name":"SCIENCE-FICTION STUDIES","volume":"49 1","pages":"605 - 609"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42596126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
of apocalypse, we are becoming more prepared to squarely face the looming disasters of our own time. Palmer closes the book with readings of Dead Astronauts and Kim Stanley Robinson’s Green Earth (2015) as two up-to-date alternatives to apocalypse: on the one hand, a story that imagines a ruined world in order to indict our own headlong rush to ruin the world we live in, and on the other a story that imagines our potential to change course and solve large-scale problems. These readings are convincing, and it would be nice to think that in our era of concatenating crises the escapism of apocalypse has been taken off the table of possible cultural responses and replaced by the clear-eyed engagement with historical challenges that Palmer finds in VanderMeer and Robinson. But this is not the case: the escape into apocalyptic obfuscation remains as potent a strategy today as it ever was. To suggest otherwise is to tell yet another story in which history moves through crisis to resolution, through tribulation to redemption: an apocalyptically optimistic account of the end of apocalyptic thinking.—Connor Pitetti, RuhrUniversität Bochum
关于天启，我们正变得更加准备好直面我们这个时代迫在眉睫的灾难。帕尔默以《死亡宇航员》和金·斯坦利·罗宾逊(Kim Stanley Robinson)的《绿色地球》(2015)作为《末日启示录》的两个最新版本作为结尾处:一方面，这个故事想象了一个毁灭的世界，以谴责我们自己鲁莽地毁灭我们所生活的世界;另一方面，这个故事想象了我们改变方向和解决大规模问题的潜力。这些解读是令人信服的，在我们这个危机不断的时代，对世界末日的逃避主义已经从可能的文化反应中消失，取而代之的是帕尔默在范德米尔和罗宾逊身上发现的对历史挑战的清醒参与，这是很好的想法。但事实并非如此:如今，逃避世界末日般的困惑仍然是一种有效的策略。如果不这么认为，那就是在讲述另一个历史从危机走向解决、从苦难走向救赎的故事:对末世主义思想终结的末世乐观主义描述。-Connor Pitetti RuhrUniversität波鸿
{"title":"Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror ed. by Stefan Rabitsch et al. (review)","authors":"J. Withers","doi":"10.1353/sfs.2022.0063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sfs.2022.0063","url":null,"abstract":"of apocalypse, we are becoming more prepared to squarely face the looming disasters of our own time. Palmer closes the book with readings of Dead Astronauts and Kim Stanley Robinson’s Green Earth (2015) as two up-to-date alternatives to apocalypse: on the one hand, a story that imagines a ruined world in order to indict our own headlong rush to ruin the world we live in, and on the other a story that imagines our potential to change course and solve large-scale problems. These readings are convincing, and it would be nice to think that in our era of concatenating crises the escapism of apocalypse has been taken off the table of possible cultural responses and replaced by the clear-eyed engagement with historical challenges that Palmer finds in VanderMeer and Robinson. But this is not the case: the escape into apocalyptic obfuscation remains as potent a strategy today as it ever was. To suggest otherwise is to tell yet another story in which history moves through crisis to resolution, through tribulation to redemption: an apocalyptically optimistic account of the end of apocalyptic thinking.—Connor Pitetti, RuhrUniversität Bochum","PeriodicalId":45553,"journal":{"name":"SCIENCE-FICTION STUDIES","volume":"49 1","pages":"582 - 585"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45784603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color by Joy Sanchez-Taylor (review)","authors":"J. Gordon","doi":"10.1353/sfs.2022.0064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sfs.2022.0064","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45553,"journal":{"name":"SCIENCE-FICTION STUDIES","volume":"49 1","pages":"585 - 588"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45504013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
extensive that there seems nothing else to say and, therefore, nothing for students to explore in them. Second, in a connected story, I wished for an appendix, either after each chapter or at the end, of other fiction relevant to the themes explored. Both of these complaints indicate how valuable I think Diverse Futures would be in any sf classroom, undergraduate or graduate, and how helpful I found it in the reading.—Joan Gordon, SFS
{"title":"Space Forces: A Critical History of Life in Outer Space by Fred Scharmen (review)","authors":"Rick Cousins","doi":"10.1353/sfs.2022.0065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sfs.2022.0065","url":null,"abstract":"extensive that there seems nothing else to say and, therefore, nothing for students to explore in them. Second, in a connected story, I wished for an appendix, either after each chapter or at the end, of other fiction relevant to the themes explored. Both of these complaints indicate how valuable I think Diverse Futures would be in any sf classroom, undergraduate or graduate, and how helpful I found it in the reading.—Joan Gordon, SFS","PeriodicalId":45553,"journal":{"name":"SCIENCE-FICTION STUDIES","volume":"49 1","pages":"588 - 591"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47113059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT:Offering something of a group portrait, this study focuses on Ballard's first decade as a published writer (1956-1966), seen in the context of US science fiction—its stories, writers, communal obsessions (including NASA's Mercury Program), and above all its shared writing practices. During the early Cold War years, science fiction regularly recast the genre's own earlier moments, a practice that tied even the pointed social critique of noir sf in the early 1950s—stories that first drew Ballard to the genre—to earlier pulp science fiction, including the space adventures of the 1930s and 1940s. An especially striking quality of this postwar generation is what seems an unusual degree of prescience; for Ballard's early sf—like that of the US writers who inspired him (sometimes to emulate, sometimes to critique)—regularly offer uncanny intimations of our own contentious historical moment today.
{"title":"J.G. Ballard and American Science Fiction","authors":"C. Mcguirk","doi":"10.1353/sfs.2022.0048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sfs.2022.0048","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Offering something of a group portrait, this study focuses on Ballard's first decade as a published writer (1956-1966), seen in the context of US science fiction—its stories, writers, communal obsessions (including NASA's Mercury Program), and above all its shared writing practices. During the early Cold War years, science fiction regularly recast the genre's own earlier moments, a practice that tied even the pointed social critique of noir sf in the early 1950s—stories that first drew Ballard to the genre—to earlier pulp science fiction, including the space adventures of the 1930s and 1940s. An especially striking quality of this postwar generation is what seems an unusual degree of prescience; for Ballard's early sf—like that of the US writers who inspired him (sometimes to emulate, sometimes to critique)—regularly offer uncanny intimations of our own contentious historical moment today.","PeriodicalId":45553,"journal":{"name":"SCIENCE-FICTION STUDIES","volume":"49 1","pages":"476 - 501"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42890414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT:This essay argues that Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140 understands something fundamental but far from obvious about automobility: it is an ideology that over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has grown so vast, complex, and multi-faceted that it encompasses much more than just materially existing cars. The novel provocatively (but menacingly) shows that automobility is so entangled with and bolstered by other ideologies such as capitalism and hegemonic masculinity that automobility can even survive the disappearance of cars due to catastrophic climate change. Further, this article addresses how some female characters in the novel use walking and airships to challenge the unpalatable capitalist and masculinist values that threaten to sponsor present and future modes of transportation.
摘要：本文认为，金·斯坦利·罗宾逊（Kim Stanley Robinson）的《纽约2140》（New York 2140）理解了汽车可行驶性的一些基本但远非显而易见的东西：在二十世纪和二十一世纪的过程中，这一意识形态变得如此广泛、复杂和多方面，以至于它包含的不仅仅是物质上现有的汽车。这部小说挑衅地（但具有威胁性）表明，汽车性与资本主义和霸权男子气概等其他意识形态纠缠在一起，并得到了它们的支持，以至于汽车性甚至可以在灾难性气候变化导致的汽车消失后幸存下来。此外，本文还探讨了小说中的一些女性角色如何利用步行和飞艇来挑战令人不快的资本主义和男性主义价值观，这些价值观威胁着赞助现在和未来的交通方式。
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{"title":"Neoliberalism and Cyberpunk Science Fiction: Living on the Edge of Burnout by Caroline Alphin (review)","authors":"David Shipko","doi":"10.1353/sfs.2022.0052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sfs.2022.0052","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45553,"journal":{"name":"SCIENCE-FICTION STUDIES","volume":"49 1","pages":"550 - 552"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42428401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reverse Colonization: Science Fiction, Imperial Fantasy, and Alt-Victimhood by David M. Higgins (review)","authors":"Suparno Banerjee","doi":"10.1353/sfs.2022.0057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sfs.2022.0057","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45553,"journal":{"name":"SCIENCE-FICTION STUDIES","volume":"49 1","pages":"564 - 568"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45800823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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