Extrapolation back issues from September 2005:
Acknowledgements: multiculturalism and race in science fiction.
Sep 22, 2005; ... When, at ICFA a few years back, I suggested to Extrapolation's then newly installed Editor, Javier Martinez, that I'd like to do a special issue of the journal on multiculturalism and race, he was immediately enthusiastic. Like all new editors, Javier had ideas about where he wanted to ...
Crossing the boundaries of the "Burn": Canadian multiculturalism and Caribbean hybridity in Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring.
Sep 22, 2005; ... Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring (1998) is set in a near-future Toronto where the affluent businesses, residents, and authorities have withdrawn to the suburbs. Those citizens who are too poor to leave the inner city have to fend for themselves in an environment wracked by urban ...
"Serving the spirits": emergent identities in Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring.
Sep 22, 2005; ... In a recent article for Science Fiction Studies Istvan Csicery-Ronay makes the claim that "sf is the genre of empire" (241). Csicsery-Ronay cites that, in support of his claim, the "conditions for the emergence of sf as a genre are made possible by three factors: the technological ...
Patricia Wrightson and Aboriginal myth.
Sep 22, 2005; ... The Problem of Ownership A number of Australian writers of European descent have used the medium of children's fantasy to explore the rich and, from a European cultural perspective, radically-estranged universe of Aboriginal legend. Fantasies such as Bill Scott's Boori (1979) ...
Old world, New World, Otherworld: Celtic and Native American influences in Charles de Lint's Moonheart and Forests of the heart.
Sep 22, 2005; ... Once upon a time, storytellers felt free to use whatever elements of other cultural traditions struck their fancy, and to reshape those elements to serve whatever narrative purpose they had in mind, without respect for the impact their words might have upon members of the originating ...
The relationship between community and subjectivity in Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower.
Sep 22, 2005; ... Butler's future world of 2024 shares many of the characteristics Immanuel Wallerstein attributes to our contemporary society. In our contemporary world of economic globalization, says Wallerstein in his book Utopistics, "transnational corporations are so truly global that they can ...
Science fiction, colonialism, and the plot of invasion (1).
Sep 22, 2005; ... In her classic essay "The Imagination of Disaster," Susan Sontag comments that "from a psychological point of view, the imagination of disaster does not greatly differ from one period in history to another. But from a political and moral point of view, it does" (224). The formulaic ...
A Sense of Wonder: Samuel R. Delany, Race, Identity, and Difference.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Jeffrey Allen Tucker. A Sense of Wonder: Samuel R. Delany, Race, Identity, and Difference. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2004. 356 pp. $24.95 pbk. Jeffrey Allen Tucker's new volume on Samuel Delany is aptly titled, for a variety of reasons, but most remarkably ...
Speculations on Speculation: Theories of Science Fiction.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Eds. James Gunn and Matthew Candelaria. Speculations on Speculation: Theories of Science Fiction. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005, 374 pp. $30.00. Sometimes the best textbooks aren't actually textbooks. An engaged professor who is current in her field can often pull together a ...
Speculations on Speculation: Theories of Science Fiction.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... James Gunn and Matthew Candelaria, eds. Speculations on Speculation: Theories of Science Fiction. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005. 374 pp. $30.00 pbk. Every time I've taught a course on science fiction, I've thought it would be useful to be able to offer my students, in a ...
Wetwares: Experiments in Postvital Living (Theory Out of Bounds, Volume 24).(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Richard Doyle. Wetwares: Experiments in Postvital Living (Theory Out of Bounds, Volume 24). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. 235 pp. $25.00 pbk. Richard Doyle's Wetwares: Experiments in Postvital Living considers the consequences of a shift in how life is ...