Extrapolation back issues from June 2006:
Acknowledgements.
Jun 22, 2006; ... While our LeGuin special issue will be ready in the near future, this current issue of Extrapolation is something of a themed issue in itself. The theme is the superhero, and three fine writers, Matthew Wolf-Meyer, Bryan Dietrich, and Albert Wendland, all contribute solid pieces on comic ...
Batman and Robin in the nude, or class and its exceptions.
Jun 22, 2006; ... <Pre> liminal: adjective; Etymology: Latin limin-, limen threshold 1: of or relating to a sensory threshold 2: barely perceptible (1) 1. of or relating to a transitional or initial stage 2. at a boundary or threshold (2) </Pre> I. Absurdly So Two components of ...
Queen of Pentacles: archetyping Wonder Woman.
Jun 22, 2006; ... 0. Queen of Pentacles <Pre> I stood for nameless women whose sense of loss is not statistical, stood for a while, then vanished. Men are always being turned to stone by something ... --Mona Van Duyn </Pre> How does one set out for Paradise? How does one ...
The universe in a frame: the domestic sublime in Adam Strange and fifties SF.
Jun 22, 2006; ... For an era that established suburbia, some of the science-fictional popular culture of the 1950s seemed to ignore its existence. The Batman comics, for example, placed the caped crusader in the city or the country, but almost never in between. The city is depicted as rising from the ...
Stagecoach in space: the legacy of Firefly.(genre of science fiction)(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2006; ... When Joss Whedon's science fiction television series, Firefly, premiered in September, 2002, there was no denying it was a Western. In succeeding frames of the opening credits a pistol cocked with a threatening click; the protagonist faced the camera stalwartly alone, a pistol strapped low ...
Terminal constructedness and the technology of the self in Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky.(Movie review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... The Technological/Self Arthur Kroker and David Cook have said that the postmodern body is "a power grid, tattooed with all the signs of cultural excess on its surface, encoded from within by the language of desire" (Postmodern 26). A product of late capitalism, this language of ...
Masculinity in the novels of Philip K. Dick.
Jun 22, 2006; ... The quintessential Dick character is the paradigm of masculine subjectivity in crisis: he is uncertain in his job, his interpersonal relationships, and in his own sense of himself. Carl Freedman has noted that Dick's "stature [as the greatest of all science fiction authors] can be at least ...
New Worlds and the New Wave in fandom: fan culture and the reshaping of science fiction in the sixties.
Jun 22, 2006; ... In the August 1970 issue of the SFWA Forum, a publication circulated to members of the Science Fiction Writers of America, Harlan Ellison remarked that the contoversy over the New Wave, which had consumed the field during the late 1960s, seemed to have been "blissfully laid to rest." There ...
Re-Forming the Past: History, the Fantastic, and the Postmodern Slave Narrative.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... A. Timothy Spaulding. Re-forming the Past: History, the Fantastic, and the Postmodern Slave Narrative. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2005, 148 pp., $39.95 cloth. Reforming the Past, by A. Timothy Spaulding, is a slim volume (137 pages of texts with notes) which ...
The Novels of Kurt Vonnegut: Imagining Being an American.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Donald E. Morse. The Novels of Kurt Vonnegut: Imagining Being an American. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003. 203 pp., $70.95 cloth. In the preface to The Novels of Kurt Vonnegut: Imagining Being an American, the author, Donald Morse, notes that, "The emphasis of ...
From Alien to The Matrix: Reading Science Fiction Film.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Roz Kaveney. From Alien to The Matrix: Reading Science Fiction Film. London: IB Tauris, 256 pp., $14.95 paper. (Distributed in North America by Palgrave-Macmillian.) Since the early 1980s critical responses to filmed speculative fiction has been dominated by writing on or about ...
Why Should I Cut Your Throat? Excursions Into the Worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Jeff Vandermeer. Why Should I Cut Your Throat? Excursions Into the Worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror. Austin: Monkeybrain Books, 2004, 335 pp., $15.95 paper. Jeff Vandermeer has been amongst the most visible writers of the fantastic in recent years. In part, this has ...
Alphaville.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Chris Darke. Alphaville. London and New York: IB Tauris, 2005, xii+114 pp., $15.00 paper. Alphaville always seems to fall between two stools. For film studies and the Godard aficionado, it often appears to be an anomalous (and far too accessible) detour into sf. For sf studies, ...
Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction 1926-1965.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Eric Leif Davin. Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction 1926-1965. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006, 446 pp., $39.95 paper. Feminist science fiction studies is at an exciting point in its development. Over the past fifteen years scholars including Jane ...