{"title":"La Pandémie en science-fiction ed. by Christophe Becker and Clémentine Hogue (review)","authors":"Amy J. Ransom","doi":"10.1353/sfs.2022.0053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sfs.2022.0053","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45553,"journal":{"name":"SCIENCE-FICTION STUDIES","volume":"49 1","pages":"552 - 555"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47089431","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":"Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction ed. by Meghan Gilbert-Hickey and Miranda A. Green-Barteet (review)","authors":"Brittany Tomin","doi":"10.1353/sfs.2022.0037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sfs.2022.0037","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45553,"journal":{"name":"SCIENCE-FICTION STUDIES","volume":"49 1","pages":"392 - 396"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48804627","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}
N. Castle, R. Dini, Tiff Graham, K. Heffner, Fitzhugh Shaw (Chickasaw), Sarah Stang
ABSTRACT:For this roundtable, we asked participants to respond critically to the topic of sf kitchens. How and why does the kitchen figure in sf? Why is it a significant site to think through the various concerns emanating around food futures? What can a focus on the kitchen as a key space in/of the future tell us about its historical organization of social and cultural relations? Might its future imagining afford the means to organize those differently?
{"title":"Roundtable: SF in the Kitchen","authors":"N. Castle, R. Dini, Tiff Graham, K. Heffner, Fitzhugh Shaw (Chickasaw), Sarah Stang","doi":"10.1353/sfs.2022.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sfs.2022.0030","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:For this roundtable, we asked participants to respond critically to the topic of sf kitchens. How and why does the kitchen figure in sf? Why is it a significant site to think through the various concerns emanating around food futures? What can a focus on the kitchen as a key space in/of the future tell us about its historical organization of social and cultural relations? Might its future imagining afford the means to organize those differently?","PeriodicalId":45553,"journal":{"name":"SCIENCE-FICTION STUDIES","volume":"49 1","pages":"359 - 372"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45591552","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:It is particularly disturbing when seemingly inert plants escape the category of nourishing food and instead become transmitters of vegetal diseases infecting our human bodies or transforming us into plant-human hybrids or even plant-infused zombies. This article analyzes the ecological and alimentary implications of three sf texts in which plants infect human bodies or use them as a kind of walking soil from which to sprout: Paolo Bacigalupi's novel The Windup Girl (2009), Olivia Vieweg's German-language graphic novel, EndZeit [EndTime, 2018], and Nnedi Okorafor's graphic novel LaGuardia (2019). Presenting plant-human relations as either utopian and kinship-based or as horrific cross-species disease vectors creating human-plant zombies, these texts reveal aspects of the ecological fact that human bodies are always monstrously chimerical. All living things are, in fact, composed of multispecies entanglements with other beings such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi, as well as the species they consume, as described by Anna Tsing et al. in Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet (2017). Bacigalupi, Vieweg, and Okorafor transform our ecological entanglements with and dependence on plants into both disturbing and celebratory sf visions of bodily invasion.
{"title":"Cross-Infections of Vegetal-Human Bodies in Science Fiction","authors":"Heather I. Sullivan","doi":"10.1353/sfs.2022.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sfs.2022.0029","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:It is particularly disturbing when seemingly inert plants escape the category of nourishing food and instead become transmitters of vegetal diseases infecting our human bodies or transforming us into plant-human hybrids or even plant-infused zombies. This article analyzes the ecological and alimentary implications of three sf texts in which plants infect human bodies or use them as a kind of walking soil from which to sprout: Paolo Bacigalupi's novel The Windup Girl (2009), Olivia Vieweg's German-language graphic novel, EndZeit [EndTime, 2018], and Nnedi Okorafor's graphic novel LaGuardia (2019). Presenting plant-human relations as either utopian and kinship-based or as horrific cross-species disease vectors creating human-plant zombies, these texts reveal aspects of the ecological fact that human bodies are always monstrously chimerical. All living things are, in fact, composed of multispecies entanglements with other beings such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi, as well as the species they consume, as described by Anna Tsing et al. in Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet (2017). Bacigalupi, Vieweg, and Okorafor transform our ecological entanglements with and dependence on plants into both disturbing and celebratory sf visions of bodily invasion.","PeriodicalId":45553,"journal":{"name":"SCIENCE-FICTION STUDIES","volume":"49 1","pages":"342 - 358"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66417419","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:France's national identity has long been inseparable from its culinary culture. From Taillevent's Le Viandier (c.1300) to Escoffier's Le Guide culinaire (1903), French treatises and texts led the way in establishing France's central role in codifying western food discourses. Against this backdrop of gastronomic glory, futuristic food fictions in French are few and far between, but they serve to reveal contemporary preoccupations and predictions related to culinary concerns. In this article, I track food futures in notable selected texts of French writing spanning four centuries—from Louis-Sébastien Mercier's L'An 2440, rêve s'il en fut jamais (1771) to Chantal Pelletier's Nos derniers festins (2019)—outlining briefly the gastronomic context from which they emanate and how these projections perform a parallel or meta-interpretation of food cultures in France. I will thereby demonstrate that the utopian and dystopian extremes emerging in these examples of food futures in French speculative narratives relate to and/or challenge the historical and literary contexts of culinary cultures in France.
摘要：长期以来，法国的民族认同与其烹饪文化密不可分。从Tailevent的《维昂迪尔》（约1300年）到Escoffier的《库利奈尔指南》（1903年），法国的论文和文本引领了法国在编纂西方食物话语中的核心作用。在这种美食荣耀的背景下，法语的未来主义美食小说很少，但它们揭示了当代人对烹饪的关注和预测。在这篇文章中，我追踪了跨越四个世纪的著名法语写作选本中的食物未来——从路易·塞巴斯蒂安·梅西耶的《L’An 2440》、《rêve’il en fut jamais》（1771）到尚塔尔·佩莱蒂耶的《Nos derniers festins》（2019）——简要概述了它们产生的美食背景，以及这些预测如何对法国的食物文化进行平行或元解释。因此，我将证明，在法国投机叙事中，这些食物未来的例子中出现的乌托邦和反乌托邦极端与法国烹饪文化的历史和文学背景有关和/或挑战。
{"title":"Manger demain: Food Futures in French Fiction","authors":"J. Dutton","doi":"10.1353/sfs.2022.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sfs.2022.0024","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:France's national identity has long been inseparable from its culinary culture. From Taillevent's Le Viandier (c.1300) to Escoffier's Le Guide culinaire (1903), French treatises and texts led the way in establishing France's central role in codifying western food discourses. Against this backdrop of gastronomic glory, futuristic food fictions in French are few and far between, but they serve to reveal contemporary preoccupations and predictions related to culinary concerns. In this article, I track food futures in notable selected texts of French writing spanning four centuries—from Louis-Sébastien Mercier's L'An 2440, rêve s'il en fut jamais (1771) to Chantal Pelletier's Nos derniers festins (2019)—outlining briefly the gastronomic context from which they emanate and how these projections perform a parallel or meta-interpretation of food cultures in France. I will thereby demonstrate that the utopian and dystopian extremes emerging in these examples of food futures in French speculative narratives relate to and/or challenge the historical and literary contexts of culinary cultures in France.","PeriodicalId":45553,"journal":{"name":"SCIENCE-FICTION STUDIES","volume":"49 1","pages":"247 - 266"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46584312","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":"The Modern and the Unknown: A Study of Science Fiction in the Late Qing Dynasty by Jia Liyuan (review)","authors":"Shaoming Duan","doi":"10.1353/sfs.2022.0039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sfs.2022.0039","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45553,"journal":{"name":"SCIENCE-FICTION STUDIES","volume":"49 1","pages":"399 - 401"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44862373","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 article examines the engagements with veganism, synthetic food, and animal ethics throughout Star Trek's seven live-action incarnations: The Original Series (TOS, 1966-1969), The Next Generation (TNG, 1987-1994), Deep Space Nine (DS9, 1993-1999), Voyager (1995-2001), Enterprise (2001-2005), Discovery (2017-), and Picard (2020-). I show how the separate Star Trek series maintain regular rhetorical gestures toward veganism as an ethically enlightened practice and philosophy in the framework of an influential engagement with synthetic food technology that allows for traditional, omnivorous meals without the need of nonhuman animal suffering. Star Trek's human characters, however, also frequently emphasize "real" food—especially meat—in connection with nostalgic Anglo-American values and supposedly superior "natural" living, so that meat-eating also often reflects notions of imperialism, colonization, and masculinity. Human meat-eating is also frequently represented as a sensible medium between violent, uncivilized carnism and an overly repressive veganism that is further exoticized by its associations with non-human and allegedly un-American cultures. Only the current series Discovery (2017–) takes veganism seriously as a core utopian value, due to the emphasis it places on interspecies relationships.
{"title":"Boldly Going Vegan? Star Trek, Synthetic Meat, and Animal Ethics","authors":"Joshua Bulleid","doi":"10.1353/sfs.2022.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sfs.2022.0028","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article examines the engagements with veganism, synthetic food, and animal ethics throughout Star Trek's seven live-action incarnations: The Original Series (TOS, 1966-1969), The Next Generation (TNG, 1987-1994), Deep Space Nine (DS9, 1993-1999), Voyager (1995-2001), Enterprise (2001-2005), Discovery (2017-), and Picard (2020-). I show how the separate Star Trek series maintain regular rhetorical gestures toward veganism as an ethically enlightened practice and philosophy in the framework of an influential engagement with synthetic food technology that allows for traditional, omnivorous meals without the need of nonhuman animal suffering. Star Trek's human characters, however, also frequently emphasize \"real\" food—especially meat—in connection with nostalgic Anglo-American values and supposedly superior \"natural\" living, so that meat-eating also often reflects notions of imperialism, colonization, and masculinity. Human meat-eating is also frequently represented as a sensible medium between violent, uncivilized carnism and an overly repressive veganism that is further exoticized by its associations with non-human and allegedly un-American cultures. Only the current series Discovery (2017–) takes veganism seriously as a core utopian value, due to the emphasis it places on interspecies relationships.","PeriodicalId":45553,"journal":{"name":"SCIENCE-FICTION STUDIES","volume":"49 1","pages":"322 - 341"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43263017","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":"The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought by Roger A. Sneed (review)","authors":"Ruth Myers","doi":"10.1353/sfs.2022.0040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sfs.2022.0040","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45553,"journal":{"name":"SCIENCE-FICTION STUDIES","volume":"49 1","pages":"401 - 405"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46046005","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":"The Metabolist Imagination: Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction by William O. Gardner (review)","authors":"Mordecai Scheckter","doi":"10.1353/sfs.2022.0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sfs.2022.0036","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45553,"journal":{"name":"SCIENCE-FICTION STUDIES","volume":"49 1","pages":"388 - 392"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43999519","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:From More and Campanella to Gernsback's Ralph 124C 41+, utopian authors have imagined potential agricultural revolutions guaranteeing a secure and abundant supply of high-quality food. Since literary utopias are either based in or modeled on the institution of the city, their demand for food necessitates an increased exploitation of the countryside. Industrialized agriculture remains indispensable even in a future such as Gernsback's, where most foods are apparently synthetic. The "garden city" utopias from Cabet to Gilman equally rely on agricultural intensification, portraying an ideal of "perfect cultivation" that depends on systematic ecocide and environmental remodeling. Their utopian futures anticipate the historical development of global agriculture all too closely. Morris's News from Nowhere stands out for its opposition to industrial farming and to the subordination of the countryside to the rule of the city. Yet Morris's future London continues to import virtually all its food. Finally, consideration of Robinson's Pacific Edge suggests that the challenge of imagining a future for well-fed humanity no longer dependent on rural oppression and environmental destruction remains to be met.
{"title":"Food and Power: The Utopian City and Its Countryside","authors":"P. Parrinder","doi":"10.1353/sfs.2022.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sfs.2022.0022","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:From More and Campanella to Gernsback's Ralph 124C 41+, utopian authors have imagined potential agricultural revolutions guaranteeing a secure and abundant supply of high-quality food. Since literary utopias are either based in or modeled on the institution of the city, their demand for food necessitates an increased exploitation of the countryside. Industrialized agriculture remains indispensable even in a future such as Gernsback's, where most foods are apparently synthetic. The \"garden city\" utopias from Cabet to Gilman equally rely on agricultural intensification, portraying an ideal of \"perfect cultivation\" that depends on systematic ecocide and environmental remodeling. Their utopian futures anticipate the historical development of global agriculture all too closely. Morris's News from Nowhere stands out for its opposition to industrial farming and to the subordination of the countryside to the rule of the city. Yet Morris's future London continues to import virtually all its food. Finally, consideration of Robinson's Pacific Edge suggests that the challenge of imagining a future for well-fed humanity no longer dependent on rural oppression and environmental destruction remains to be met.","PeriodicalId":45553,"journal":{"name":"SCIENCE-FICTION STUDIES","volume":"49 1","pages":"217 - 229"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42191465","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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