Recently added articles from Extrapolation:
Brian Attebery.(Special Section)(studies on science and fantasy fiction)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Among submissions to the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts and other journals I read for, I have noticed a growing generation gap (although the division is based on attitude and experience, not necessarily age). On one side are the writers who write with great depth of understanding and ...
Mark Bould.(Special Section)(studies on science and fantasy fiction)(Essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... I had intended a brief note to celebrate some of the exciting new things going on in the field, such as the burgeoning engagements with science studies, animal studies, afrofuturism, biopolitics, with sf from peripheral and semi-peripheral regions, with other media and practices, as well ...
Ritch Calvin.(Special Section)(on science fiction studies)(Essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... One of the decisions that the Executive Committee of the Science Fiction Research Association decided in 2007 was to expand its consideration of science fiction to include media representations (discounting for the moment that the printed book is a medium, as well). Beginning in January of ...
Neil Easterbrook.(Special Section)(on science fiction studies)(Essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The current state of sf scholarship is very promising indeed. Amid the many signs of the impending collapse of the humanities generally--literary reading continues to decline, newspaper book reviews are shrinking in size or closing altogether, college enrollments are down, and university ...
Carl Freedman.(Special Section)(on science fiction studies)(Essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... * There are critical journals that have survived longer than Extrapolation's fifty years, but not many. A half-century of continuous publication by any periodical that offers scholarly analysis of literature is a considerable achievement. But the achievement is even greater when the ...