Pub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1353/sfs.2024.a931155
Paromita Patranobish
ABSTRACT: I approach Satyajit Ray's sf stories as postcolonial interventions into Western Enlightenment discourses of scientific rationality. I trace the trajectory of these concerns as they are reflected in narratives centered around nonhuman animals, published in various Bengali juvenile magazines between 1961 and 1992. Ray's stories offer a critical site for interrogating, revising, and expanding the possibilities of a Kantian moral philosophy of cosmopolitanism for post-independence contexts of democratic governance, industrialization, and urbanization. Ray's sf enables readers to imagine a posthuman cosmopolitics (to use Isabelle Stengers's concept) as an alternative to colonial cartographies of personhood and the centrifugal impulse of postcolonial nation formation. My article addresses the significant but underexplored role played by Ray's ecological thinking and care for the nonhuman animal in his postcolonial politics. Ray's sf harnesses the possibilities of Bengali speculative fiction, including Kalpavigyan's model of a fluid science to posit a speculative vision of a future-oriented cosmopolitics where the possibility for non-reciprocal and untranslatable proximities becomes a conceptual foundation for thinking about alterity.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1353/sfs.2024.a931165
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Pub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1353/sfs.2024.a931163
{"title":"Angry Planet: Decolonial Fiction and the American Third World by Anne Stewart (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/sfs.2024.a931163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sfs.2024.a931163","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":517674,"journal":{"name":"Science Fiction Studies","volume":"17 39","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141700058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1353/sfs.2024.a931152
Stephen Dougherty
ABSTRACT: In this essay I argue that Olaf Stapledon's speculative writing in Last and First Men and Star Maker is deeply informed by a thwarted cosmopolitics. The dream visions of science fiction to come in these novels are born of the failure of a cosmopolitan idealism. In his profound devotion to the cause of attempted cosmopolitanism, as we might put it, and in his rich imagining of what happens right before it goes wrong, Stapledon is a very Kantian speculative writer. I flesh out a Kantian philosophical context for Stapledon in this essay, not only because of the quite practical value of considering Stapledon in a Kantian frame, but also because of Kant's uptake in recent years by critics deeply interested in the stealthy presence of a central science-fictional motif in Kant's writing: that of the extraterrestrial.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1353/sfs.2024.a931159
{"title":"Shakespeare and Science Fiction by Sarah Annes Brown (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/sfs.2024.a931159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sfs.2024.a931159","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":517674,"journal":{"name":"Science Fiction Studies","volume":"13 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141700656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1353/sfs.2024.a931161
{"title":"Reimagining the Human in Contemporary French Science Fiction by Christina Lord (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/sfs.2024.a931161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sfs.2024.a931161","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":517674,"journal":{"name":"Science Fiction Studies","volume":"13 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141704628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1353/sfs.2024.a931150
Nicola Allen, Gerry Carlin
ABSTRACT: Paul Kantner's Blows Against the Empire (1970) is the only rock album to have been nominated for a Hugo Award. Kantner's lyrical excursions into SF, as a solo artist and as a member of Jefferson Airplane, are characterized by extensive borrowings of both themes and actual text from writers such as John Wyndham, Robert Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon, Arthur C. Clarke, and others. Important intellectual fields addressed by sf and West Coast rock thematize unorthodox approaches to evolution. From Darwinian dissenters in the nineteenth century through philosophies of expanded consciousness and experimentation with psychoactive drugs in the 1960s, it seemed possible that the psychedelic youth movements of the period, and their utopian visions, were part of an evolutionary "mutation" in culture and consciousness. Science fiction seemed to have predicted this by popularizing "precognitive myths" of telepathy, gestalt consciousness, and ways of being that rock musicians thematized and to some extent sought to realize. Blows Against the Empire emerges as a compendium of sf and countercultural intertexts that celebrate such evolutionary ideals, and despite a lot of its ideas entering the mainstream, it remains a cult album and a unique record of late 1960s countercultural speculation.
摘要：保罗-坎特纳（Paul Kantner）的《打击帝国》（Blows Against the Empire，1970 年）是唯一一张获得雨果奖提名的摇滚专辑。无论是作为独唱歌手还是杰斐逊飞机乐队的成员，康特纳在SF领域的抒情探索都以大量借用约翰-温德姆（John Wyndham）、罗伯特-海因莱因（Robert Heinlein）、西奥多-斯特金（Theodore Sturgeon）、阿瑟-克拉克（Arthur C. Clarke）等作家的主题和实际文本为特色。索非小说和西海岸摇滚乐所涉及的重要思想领域都以非正统的进化论为主题。从 19 世纪的达尔文异议者到 20 世纪 60 年代的扩展意识哲学和精神活性药物实验，这一时期的迷幻青年运动及其乌托邦愿景似乎可能是文化和意识进化 "突变 "的一部分。科幻小说通过普及心灵感应、格式塔意识和存在方式等 "预知神话"，似乎已经预言了这一点，而摇滚音乐家则将这些神话主题化，并在一定程度上试图实现这些神话。Blows Against the Empire》是科幻小说和反文化互文的汇编，歌颂了这种进化的理想，尽管其中的许多想法进入了主流，但它仍然是一张受人崇拜的专辑，也是 20 世纪 60 年代后期反文化猜测的独特记录。
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Pub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1353/sfs.2024.a931153
Jean E. Graham
ABSTRACT: Speculative fiction can contribute toward overcoming "plant awareness disparity" and also can help create empathy for plants rather than fear of an apocalypse. The Saga of the Swamp Thing (1987) by Alan Moore, relies on Swamp Thing's anthropomorphism (undermining the vegetal nature of flora) to oppose the apocalypse and create an empathetic response. The non-anthropomorphic carnivorous plants of John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids (1954) never receive empathy from the human characters. In contrast, James Gunn's Transcendental (2013) depicts an invasive vegetal species which tells its own story, becoming empathetic without anthropomorphism.
ABSTRACT: 推理小说有助于克服 "植物认知差异"，也有助于产生对植物的共鸣，而不是对世界末日的恐惧。艾伦-摩尔（Alan Moore）的《沼泽怪客传奇》（Saga of the Swamp Thing，1987 年）依靠沼泽怪客的拟人化（削弱植物的植物性）来反对世界末日，并引起人们的共鸣。约翰-温德姆（John Wyndham）的《三叶虫之日》（The Day of the Triffids，1954 年）中的非拟人化食肉植物从未得到人类角色的共鸣。相比之下，詹姆斯-冈恩（James Gunn）的《超验》（Transcendental，2013 年）描绘了一种外来入侵的植物物种，它讲述了自己的故事，在没有拟人化的情况下产生了共鸣。
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