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An Interview with Paolo Bacigalupi 317 Summer 2016 Editor Chris Pak SFRA [email protected] A publicationRe of the Scienceview Fiction Research Association Nonfiction Editor Dominick Grace In this issue Brescia University College, 1285 Western Rd, London ON, N6G SFRA 3R4, Canada phone: 519-432-8353 ext. 28244. SFRA 2016 @ Liverpool .............................................................................................. 2 [email protected] SFRA Review Business Assistant Nonfiction Editor Stay Tuned ........................................................................................................................ 3 Kevin Pinkham “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” ............................................................................. 3 College of Arts and Sciences, Ny- ack College, 1 South Boulevard, Nyack, NY 10960, phone: 845- SFRA Business 675-4526845-675-4526. [email protected] Candidates for the 2017-2019 SFRA Executive Committee ........................ 4 Star Trek Symposium – Malta 2016 ....................................................................... 9 Fiction Editor Jeremy Brett 2015-2016 SFRA Awards Cushing Memorial Library and Pilgrim Award Acceptance Speech .......................................................................11 Archives, Texas A&M University, Cushing Memorial Library & Pioneer Award Acceptance Speech ......................................................................15 Archives, 5000 TAMU College Clareson Award Acceptance Speech ....................................................................16 Station, TX 77843. [email protected] Mary Kay Bray Award Acceptance Speech ........................................................18 Student Paper Award Acceptance Speech .........................................................19 Media Editor Leimar Garcia-Siino Feature Interview Department of English, 19-23 An Interview with Paolo Bacigalupi ....................................................................20 Abercromby Square, School of the Arts, University of Liverpool, L69 7ZG. Feature 101 [email protected] Simulation Scenarios in the Star Trek Universe Reject Solipsism ...........28 Nonfiction Reviews An Astounding War: Science Fiction and World War II ..................................35 Mondo Nano: Fun and Games in the World of Digital Matter .....................36 The Culture Series of Iain M. Banks: A Critical Introduction ........................38 Submissions Calling Dr. Strangelove: The Anatomy and Influence of the Kubrick Mas- The SFRA Review encourages submissions of reviews, review essays that cover several related terpiece .............................................................................................................................40 texts, interviews, and feature articles. Submis- sion guidelines are available at http://www.sfra. org/ or by inquiry to the appropriate editor. All Fiction Reviews submitters must be current SFRA members. Contact the Editors for other submissions or for Ma Gli Androidi Mangiano Spaghetti Elettrici? ................................................42 correspondence. The SFRA Review (ISSN 1068-395X) is pub- Announcements lished four times a year by the Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA), and distributed Call for Papers—Conference ...................................................................................44 to SFRA members. Individual issues are not for sale; however, all issues after 256 are published Call for Papers—Articles ..........................................................................................45 to SFRA’s Website (http://www.sfra.org/). PB SFRA Review 317 Summer 2016 SFRA Review 317 Summer 2016 1 SFRA Review Business - ships and acquaintances with those of you who I see allour too members infrequently. for the Thank first time you all!and to renew friend EDITORS’ MESSAGE SFRA 2016 @ Liverpool In this issue of the SFRA Review, we present the award speeches that were delivered at the SFRA Chris Pak 2016 award ceremony. Congratulations to all of our award-winners! On a personal note, it was a par- SFRA 2016 was a marvellous success. Over a hun- ticular joy to see my external examiner Mark Bould dred attendees arrived to Liverpool for three days of and Farah Mendlesohn receive awards this year, and engaging and insightful presentations, roundtable to hear Bould's touching speech in person. We also disusssions and collegial conversation present the statements for our candidates for the I would like to take the opportunity to thank ev- upcoming SFRA elections, votes for which will be eryone who helped to make SFRA 2016 such a great cast in late September. success. First, let me thank our keynote speakers In addition to all of the above, we have a Feature Joan Haran, Andrew Milner and Andy Sawyer for Interview that I conducted with Paolo Bacigalupi at their keynote talks, their enthusiastic commentary Liverpool Waterstones One and a Feature 101 arti- and questions, and for their excellent company over cle, 'Simulation Scenarios in the Star Trek Universe the three days. Thank you to Sawyer, too, for curat- Reject Solipsism,' from our regular contributor Vic- ing an exhibition that showcased some of the mate- tor Grech. Grech and Mariella Scerri also contribute rial from the Science Fiction Foundation collection a conference report that discusses the second Star and for taking delegates on tours of the archive. I Trek Symposium held in Malta. All this and our regu- want to extend my thanks to Vice-Chancellor Janet Beer, who opened the conference with her welcome address, and to David Seed. andlar run no mediaof non-fiction reviews. reviews I would and encourage announcements, you all to SFRA 2016 would not have been possible without writealthough for forthe thisSFRA issue Review we tohave help few us fiction address reviews these the support of my co-organiser, Will Slocombe, whose lacunae in future issues. help putting the event together made the whole pro- Finally, for those of you who would like to browse cess as smooth and enjoyable as it was. Thank you to the Twitter conversations and photos that emerged the CRSF team - Molly Cobb, Glyn Morgan and Lei- from the SFRA 2016 conference, I have collected the mar Garcia-Siino - for their assistance and help with tweets in a Storify thread that can be viewed here. organising the evening socials, and to The University Thank you everyone who contributed to that thread, of Liverpool postgraduates Asami Nakamura, Beáta and again thank you to everyone who helped to make Gubacsi and Tom Kewin for their assistance through- SFRA 2016 such a memorable event! out the days. Liverpool University Press sponsored a much appreciated wine reception on the second day of the conference and set up a book stall alongside Peter Lang and Liverpool's Blackwells. Thanks, too, to the support staff who helped with the logistics for the event, and to Europa International, whose timely assistance with supplying display cabinets for the exhibition helped avert disaster. Thank you to The Bluecoat Arts Centre, who hosted a wonderful ban- quet and treated our banqueters - myself included - to an eye-opening history of the locale. Of course, I would also like to thank all our dele- gates for making the three days such a success, and the SFRA executive committee for their trust and support. It was an absolute delight to meet many of 2 SFRA Review 317 Summer 2016 SFRA Review 317 Summer 2016 3 SFRA Business and locations for organization and collaboration on the discussion boards for members. If you’ve just thought to yourself “Hey, I run one of those things!” PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE and you’d like to help us explore how to make this idea a reality, you should start drafting your email to Stay Tuned me right now. Craig Jacobsen This, and other new initiatives will be coming your way from this, and the next, EC, so stay tuned and be SFRA 2016 is behind us now, and nothing that I ready to join in. could write here would properly express my appre- ciation to all of our hosts at the University of Liver- pool. Chris Pak and Will Slocombe organized a con- ference for us all to enjoy and be proud of, and all of VICE-PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE their Liverpool colleagues (who I won’t try to name because I will certainly embarrass myself by missing “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” Keren Omry sure those of us from other parts felt welcomed. I hopesome thatof them) everyone gave involvedselflessly takes of their away time with to makethem memories even half as good as my own. column, I confess that my attention strays to the With this issue of SFRA Review we turn our headlinesAS I SIT HERE running reflecting across onthe how bottom best of to my begin screen. this thoughts toward the future of the SFRA and elections Since writing the last column, the world that we know seems to be unravelling. The United King- dom has voted to withdraw from the EU; violent at- of the next Executive Committee officers. Before we will be moving out of the Immediate Past President tacks are wreaking havoc on an almost daily basis do that, I want to publicly thank Paweł Frelik, who across Europe; over 15,000 academics in Turkish knowledge and insight has been of particular value universities have been arrested and/or suspended; chair after four years of service on the EC. Paweł’s to me as President, but his vision has helped to keep and racial violence, race resistance, and racial dis- SFRA relevant and forward-looking. Steve Berman course of the kind assumed anachronistic are mak- has served valiantly as our Treasurer,
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