314 Winter 2015 Editor Chris Pak SFRA University of Lancaster, Bailrigg, A publicationRe of the Scienceview Fiction Research Association Lancaster LA1 4YW. [email protected] Nonfiction Editor In this issue Dominick Grace SFRA Review Business Brescia University College, 1285 Western Rd, London ON, N6G Being Human ............................................................................................................................... 2 3R4, Canada phone: 519-432-8353 ext. 28244. SFRA Business [email protected] International SFRA ................................................................................................................... 2 “Get Your Ass to Mars” ............................................................................................................. 3 Assistant Nonfiction Editor Ciència i Ficció: L’Exploració Creativa dels Móns Reals i Irreals, Barcelona 2-5 Kevin Pinkham September 2015 ......................................................................................................................... 3 College of Arts and Sciences, Ny- ack College, 1 South Boulevard, Nyack, NY 10960, phone: 845- Feature Interview 675-4526845-675-4526. An Interview with Elizabeth Knox ...................................................................................... 6 [email protected] Fiction Editor Feature 101 Ecology 101 ................................................................................................................................16 Jeremy Brett Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M University, Nonfiction Reviews Cushing Memorial Library & Neuroscience in Science Fiction Films ..............................................................................26 Archives, 5000 TAMU College Station, TX 77843. Germany: A Science Fiction ...................................................................................................27 [email protected] Religion in Science Fiction: The Evolution of an Idea and the Extinction of a Genre ..............................................................................................................................................28 Media Editor Revolutionary Experiments: The Quest for Immortality in Bolshevik Science and Leimar Garcia-Siino Fiction ...........................................................................................................................................30 Department of English, 19-23 Abercromby Square, School of the Fiction Reviews Arts, University of Liverpool, L69 7ZG. Oy Feminist Planets: A Fake Memoir .................................................................................32 [email protected] The Self-Propelled Island .......................................................................................................32 Livid ................................................................................................................................................35 Hannu Rajaniemi: Collected Fiction ..................................................................................36 Media Reviews Star Trek Continues ..................................................................................................................40 The 100 .........................................................................................................................................41 Submissions The SFRA Review encourages submissions of The Martian ................................................................................................................................42 reviews, review essays that cover several related Parks and Recreation: Season 7 ..........................................................................................44 texts, interviews, and feature articles. 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Individual issues are not for sale; however, all issues after 256 are published to SFRA’s Website (http://www.sfra.org/). PB SFRA Review 314 Winter 2015 SFRA Review 314 Winter 2015 1 SFRA Review Business interviewing writer Elizabeth Knox at Liverpool Wa- terstones One in June of this year, and I have pro- duced a transcript of our discussion. We also have an EDITORS’ MESSAGE excellent Feature 101 article, “Ecology 101,” written Being Human by Gerry Canavan. Finally, we have our regular series Chris Pak of non-fiction, fiction and media reviews. Enjoy! AS I WRITE, the UK’s National Festival of the Hu- PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE manities, Being Human, is poised for its 2016 launch at the end of this week. This event is funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council and the International SFRA British Academy, with support from the Wellcome Craig Jacobsen Trust. Over forty institutions across the UK receive funding to host events over the eleven days of the A FEW YEARS AGO, an earlier incarnation of the annual festival. Having curated an exhibition for Be- - ing Human at the University of Liverpool, it strikes ciation’s commitment to its international character me as encouraging that the only national festival of andSFRA articulated Executive its Committee hope that thereaffirmed annual conferencethe asso the humanities in the UK would choose as its theme would be held outside of the United States once ev- a topic that is no stranger to those familiar with sci- ery three years. I think that it is important that we I cannot help but look forward to SFRA 2016. Delv- occasionally. It isn’t something that we can ensure ence fiction. ing into the Science Fiction Foundation Collection at willremind happen. ourselves We rely of onthis the goal ability and andits significancewillingness the University of Liverpool’s Special Collections and of a member, or sometimes a few, to coordinate each Archives for suitable exhibition material has allowed year’s conference. Often work begins a year and a me the chance to think again about the place of sci- half before the conference begins. Coordinators have to scout venues, secure affordable lodging, seek in- stitutional sponsorship, and rough out a budget well ence fiction in academia, and about what our role as I am reminded of the successful 2011 British Library in advance. It’s complicated and demanding, and scholars of science fiction means to the wider public. exhibition, Out of this World: Science Fiction But Not sometimes things don’t work out for one reason or As You Know It, which was curated by one of next year’s keynote speakers, Andy Sawyer. These events will meet outside of the US every three years. But we - cananother. say that That in makes 2016 we it difficultwill convene for us again to say outside that we of nect with a wider public audience, and for science the US, and outside of North America, in Liverpool, speak favourably of science fiction’s potential to con - England. This pleases me immensely, and not because it fiction as a powerful mode to think through philo - keeps us within spitting distance of our one-in-three sophical, social and political questions about what it nates in the UK amongst scholars of a diverse range goal at an admirable one-in-four (Lublin, Poland in means to be human - a question that evidently reso of disciplines and with public audiences. - This activity and the presence of the Science Fic- ment to our international membership that was the tion Foundation archive in Liverpool makes the UK genesis2011), but for because the goal. it reaffirmsThe SFRA in has deed an that increasingly commit an ideal location for SFRA 2016. The SFRA 2016 global membership, with particularly strong repre- website will be available any day now at the address sentation from the UK, and many others who will , and its appearance will - be announced on the SFRA-listserv. In the meantime, pensive than it has been in a few years. Simple fair- www.liv.ac.uk/sci-fi-2016 I would like to draw your attention to the call for pa- nessfind thewould journey argue to that SFRA we 2016 not alwaysshorter meetand lesson theex pers for SFRA 2016, on p. 46 of this issue. I do hope western side of the Atlantic/eastern side of the Pa- For this issue of the Review, I had the pleasure of Beyond simple fairness, though, is the simple fact to see you there! cific/northern side of the equator. 2 SFRA Review 314 Winter 2015 SFRA Review 314 Winter 2015 3 campuses seem to have replaced the shooting range, is international. SFRA must be international as well, as the Middle East erupts in bursts of religious and beyondthat science simply fiction the isaddresses international. on our The membership study of it ideological dogma, the world of Science Fiction has list. Every annual conference takes on some of the in recent months given us a number of