Rebecca Alexander received her PhD in Social and Cultural Studies in Education from UC Berkeley in 2012 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Education Studies at DePauw University. Her research ...

When Ken Liu became the second Chinese-American after Ted Chiang to win major sf awards in the United States, his fans in China were excited. 1 Liu’s “The Paper Menagerie” (2011) won the Nebula Award ...

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Since structuralism in literary studies is largely of French origin, let this attempt to ruin its reputation have as its motto the words of a Frenchman, Pierre Bertaux: At one time it was hoped that ...

The purpose of this essay is to describe the development of French science fiction in the 19th century before Jules Verne. 1 It will not be confined to an historical study but will also consider some ...

Such a statement requires not only justification but considerable elaboration. Written science fiction is, of course, literature, although science fiction in other media (films, drama, perhaps even ...

In this article I shall discuss Philip K. Dick's Valis, relating this controversial novel to his mature works, both in terms of themes (the question of Dick's abandonment of politics for theology) and ...

Christopher Bolton. The Mecha’s Blind Spot: Patlabor 2 and the Phenomenology of Anime ...

The Great Romance, a 55-page utopian/science-fiction novelette published in New Zealand in 1881, is apparently listed in only one published bibliography, A.G. Bagnall's New Zealand National ...

James Tiptree, Jr.'s 1969 story "Your Haploid Heart" concerns an interplanetary biological investigator with a mission similar to Tiptree's own: defining humanity. 1 He makes a curious discovery — a ...

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When Baudrillard writes that we live in an age of simulacra, he is not wrong. The phenomena he describes can be observed in corner video stores, supermarket aisles, and neighborhood gas stations as ...