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Afrofuturism's Specter: Alternate History, Racial 327 Winter 2019 January-February SFRA An Open Access Publication of the Science Fiction Research Association Editor Review Sean Guynes PhD Candidate Department of English In this issue ISSN 2641-2837 Michigan State University [email protected] SFRA Review Business Another One?! .................................................................................................................3 Nonfiction Editor Dominick Grace SFRA Business Professor of English Winter Is Here ................................................................................................................4 School of Humanities Incoming! ..........................................................................................................................4 Brescia University College [email protected] SF Retrospectives Stan Lee ............................................................................................................................5 Assistant Nonfiction Editor Kevin Pinkham Assistant Professor of English Features College of Arts and Sciences Historical Fantasy as SF in Osamu Tezuka's Muramasa ...............................8 Nyack College The SF in Translation Universe ............................................................................ 11 [email protected] Meet the Future .......................................................................................................... 12 Fiction Editor Symposium: Worlding SF Jeremy Brett Symposium Introduction ........................................................................................ 14 Associate Professor and Curator Immersion and Fictionality in Westworld ...................................................... 14 Cushing Memorial Library and Queering the Wayfarer Universe ......................................................................... 17 Archives, Texas A&M University [email protected] The Future, Wouldn't That Be Nice? .................................................................. 20 ........................................................ 25 Building Reynolds's Revelation Space .............................................................. 29 Media Editor TheCyberpunk's Outerspace Commodification within Us in Villeneuve's of Bodies Arrival ....................................... 33 Leimar Garcia-Siino Semiotic Concepts of Gravity in Solanas's Upside Down .......................... 37 Lecturer in English Atlantic University College The Otherworldly Self in Tarkovsky's Solaris ................................................ 41 [email protected] Intersexuality in Heinlein's "'—All You Zombies—'" .................................. 45 Alternate History and Racial Capitalism in Shawl's Everfair .................. 48 Eschatology in Star Trek ......................................................................................... 51 Submissions Novelty and Age in Butler's Fledgling ............................................................... 54 SFRA Review (ISSN 2641-2837) is Throw Grandma Out the Airlock ......................................................................... 57 an Open Access review journal pub- Naturalism and the Ontological Complexity of SF Worlds ....................... 60 lished four times a year by the Sci- ence Fiction Research Association (SFRA). Nonfiction Reviews SFRA Review encourages submis- La ideología de Star Wars ....................................................................................... 65 sions of reviews, review essays, in- Essays on Gender and Identity in the Star Trek Universe ........................ 66 terviews, and feature articles. Sub- Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before ...................................................... 67 mission guidelines are available at http://www.sfra.org/ or by inquiry to Trekonomics ................................................................................................................ 69 the appropriate editor. PB SFRA Review 327 Winter 2019 SFRA Review 327 Winter 2019 1 The Doppelganger in 21st-Century Media ...................................................... 71 Fiction Reviews Hybrid Child ................................................................................................................. 73 The Future Is Female! .............................................................................................. 74 Finding Baba Yaga ...................................................................................................... 76 Media Reviews Venom ............................................................................................................................. 77 Altered Carbon ........................................................................................................... 79 CFP: SFRA Annual Conference 2019 SFRA 2019 will meet in Hawai‘i, a set of islands that Friday, 21 June - Monday, 24 June 2019 after two and a half centuries of Western contact has become the world leader in species extinction, Chaminade University, Honolulu, Hawai‘i while being transformed during the nineteenth century from a wholly self-sustaining civilization Conference Theme: Facing the Future, Facing the into a plantation economy dominated by export Past: Colonialism, Indigeneity, and SF crops and ravaged by epidemics that reduced the Native Hawaiian population by 80% or more, Keynote Speaker: Nalo Hopkinson and whose political sovereignty was stolen by the settler-controlled and US-military-aided overthrow The SFRA invites proposals for its 2019 annual of the monarchy in 1893. As we plan to meet on this conference, to be held on the campus of Chaminade occupied land with its long history of indigenous University, Honolulu, Hawai‘i. resistance to colonial incursion, we welcome papers history and its ongoing effects, to the contemporary ecologicaland panels crisis,on the torelation issues of of science political fiction and toeconomic colonial or“I ka more wā mua,literally, ka wā“In ma what hope” is in is front a Hawaiian of you isproverb found justice, and to past and ongoing visions of the future. that can be translated, “In the past lies the future,” 300-500 word abstracts should be sent to what is behind you.” In the Native Hawaiian way of [email protected] or through the Abstract thinking, according to scholar Lilikalā Kame‘eleihiwa, past,“The Hawaiianseeking historical stands firmly answers in the for present, present-day with acceptance will occur by 8 April 2019. his back to the future, and his eyes fixed upon the Submission form by 1 March 2019. Notification of might be, you must face the past to prepare yourself Questions concerning this call for papers, fordilemmas.” the future. Another Thinking way about of interpreting this Hawaiian this proverb saying preconstituted panels, & roundtables can be directed to [email protected] with the subject about ways of knowing, ways of orienting ourselves line "CFP QUESTION," or to the conference’s local in thetime context and space, of science the relationfiction brings of our up notions questions of organizers, John Rieder ([email protected]) and the possible to our understanding of history, the Ida Yoshinaga ([email protected]) of the University of technological practice in relation to the past and the chaminade.edu) of Chaminade University. future,ethical andand our political expectations obligations of social of changeour scientific- as well Hawai'i at Mānoa, and Justin Wyble (justin.wyble@ as our sense of how it comes about. 2 SFRA Review 327 Winter 2019 SFRA Review 327 Winter 2019 3 known as the Belgian Congo, and which is today in to become part of society again. our world occupied by the Democratic Republic of protagonist’sThe sex/gender/sexuality body is “corrected,” correlation he/she ispresented allowed the Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi. The novel spans in the story seem to be based on an underlying the years 1889 to 1919, telling the story of the assumption that biology dictates clear rules for initial impetus behind the creation of Everfair by how men and women should look and what their the British socialist Fabian society, together with a bodies should be capable of doing. The potential black American orator and former slave (modeled on George Washington Williams), and some money heterosexuality is therefore never actually realized from a black missionary society, all the way up to the of a queering of either the sex/gender binary or integration of indigenous tribal governments into rooted within heteronormativity. the new state, and the decolonial revolution that and the protagonist (as well as the story) stays firmly the socialists, Christians, and indigenous Africans Works Cited Barrett, Rusty. “Is Queer Theory Important with the novel ending shortly after WWI and a seriesof Everfair of treaties lead against that ratifyKing LeopoldEverfair’s of existenceBelgium, Sexuality: Contesting Meaning in Theory and in the international legal sphere. While the novel for Sociolinguistic Theory?” Language and was largely well-received by sf readers and critical pp.25-44, Center for the Study of Language and audiences, it was also sharply criticized for its Information,Practice, edited 2002. by Kathryn Campbell-Kibler, form: a series of short, temporally disjointed but chronologically organized narratives, none longer Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the than 18 pages (out of a 400-page novel). In part, this Heinlein,Twentieth Robert Century, E. “‘—All edited You byZombies—’.” Orson Scott 1959. Card, is a matter of style: Nisi Shawl is
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