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Sfrareview in This Issue 312 Spring 2015 312 Spring 2015 Editor Chris Pak SFRA University of Lancaster, Bailrigg, Lan- A publicationRe of the Scienceview Fiction Research Association caster LA1 4YW. [email protected] Managing Editor In this issue Lars Schmeink Universität Hamburg, Institut für Anglis- SFRA Review Business tik und Amerikanistik, Von Melle Park 6 Gearing Up ............................................................................................................2 20146 Hamburg. W. [email protected] SFRA Business Nonfiction Editor #SFRA2015 ............................................................................................................2 Dominick Grace Live Long and Prosper .........................................................................................3 Brescia University College, 1285 Western Sideways in Time [conference report] ..............................................................3 Rd, London ON, N6G 3R4, Canada phone: 519-432-8353 ext. 28244. BSLS: British Society for Literature and Science [conference report] ..........5 [email protected] Feature 101 Assistant Nonfiction Editor Teaching Science Fiction .....................................................................................7 Kevin Pinkham College of Arts and Sciences, Nyack To Bottom Out: An Incomplete Guide to the New Venezuelan SF ............14 College, 1 South Boulevard, Nyack, NY 10960, phone: 845-675-4526845-675- 4526. Nonfiction Reviews [email protected] The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch ....................................................................................................................21 Fiction Editor Space and Place in The Hunger Games: New Readings of the Novels ...........23 Jeremy Brett The Liverpool Companion to World Science Fiction Film ..............................24 Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M University, Cushing Memo- Discworld and the Disciplines: Critical Approaches to the Terry Pratchett rial Library & Archives, 5000 TAMU Works ....................................................................................................................26 College Station, TX 77843. [email protected] Fiction Reviews Media Editor The Very Best of Kate Elliott ..............................................................................28 Leimar Garcia-Siino Ancillary Sword ..................................................................................................29 Department of English, 19-23 Abercrom- by Square, School of the Arts, University We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves ..........................................................30 of Liverpool, L69 7ZG. [email protected] Media Reviews witzend [comic] ..................................................................................................32 Submissions The SFRA Review encourages submissions of SF-Worlds and the First-Person Perspective ..................................................33 reviews, review essays that cover several related The Signal [film] ..................................................................................................36 texts, interviews, and feature articles. Submis- sion guidelines are available at http://www.sfra. org/ or by inquiry to the appropriate editor. All submitters must be current SFRA members. Announcements Contact the Editors for other submissions or for correspondence. Call for Papers—Conference ............................................................................38 Call for Papers—Articles ...................................................................................39 The SFRA Review (ISSN 1068-395X) is pub- lished four times a year by the Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA), and distributed to SFRA members. Individual issues are not for sale; however, all issues after 256 are published to SFRA’s Website (http://www.sfra.org/). PB SFRA Review 312 Spring 2015 SFRA Review 312 Spring 2015 1 SFRA Review Business this year. However, I wanted to announce that I will be organising next year’s conference at The University EDITORS’ MESSAGE of Liverpool in the UK. This will be a joint conference with CRSF: Current Research in Speculative Fictions, Gearing Up and will take place from the 27th-30th June, 2016. The theme will be “Systems and Knowledge.” I will be releas- Chris Pak ing more details via the usual channels, including the next issue of the Review. In the meantime, to all those I WANTED TO congratulate all of this year’s SFRA who are attending SFRA 2015, enjoy the conference; to award winners and to thank the judges who deliberated those who aren’t, do take advantage of the social media over our candidates. The awards will, of course, be pre- coverage of the event - see Craig’s column for details. sented at this year’s SFRA conference, which is fast ap- And to everyone, enjoy the summer. I’ll look forward to proaching. Ritch Calvin is currently planning an edited meeting you next year in Liverpool. collection of papers presented at this year’s conference, which will be published through Wales University Press. So to all those who are presenting at SFRA 2015, do con- sider submitting your paper to Ritch for inclusion in the SFRA Business collection. We also have two new editors who have joined the PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE SFRA Review editorial board as of this issue. Jim Da- vis has stepped down and Jeremy Brett, the curator of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Collection at #SFRA2015 Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M Craig Jacobsen University, has joined us as our new fiction editor. Lei- mar Garcia-Siino, a PhD researcher at Liverpool Uni- versity, has taken over the reins from Ritch as our new THE SFRA’S ANNUAL CONFERENCE is central to the media reviews editor. I wanted to thank both Jim and association’s mission. We gather to share our scholarship Ritch for their work on the Review, and to warmly wel- and our fellowship, to attach faces to names, to recog- come our two new editors to their role. As I’m sure nize excellence in our field, and to begin or add install- you’ll agree, they’ve done an excellent job on their debut ments to highly episodic relationships. But, of course, issue. I’d also like to take the opportunity to invite you we can’t all be there. Or not entirely there, anyway. all to share your reviews with us through the SFRA Re- This year’s conference will be in Stony Brook, New view, and to consider submitting feature and pedagogi- York, from June 25th through the 27th (www.sfra.org/ cal articles, interviews, conference or project reports to sfra2015). I look forward to spending a few days with the publication. If you’ve an idea for an article that you as many of you as can attend, and to involve many of haven’t seen in the Review before, please do get in touch! you who cannot get there in person. We are making a We have another packed issue this quarter. In his Fea- concerted effort to use a range of social media to help ture 101 article, Brian Baker discusses his experiences members (and non-members) experience some of the “Teaching Science Fiction” at Lancaster University and conference. We’ll be posting photos to Instagram (@sci- offers important thoughts on the relationship between encefictionresearch), and tweeting from both the gen- the teacher and the student. In “To Bottom Out: An eral SFRA Twitter account (@sfranews) and the confer- Incomplete Guide to the New Venezuelan Science Fic- ence-specific account (@sfra2015), so if you’re active on tion,” Rowan Lozada-Aguilera provides a survey of Ven- either of those, add us to your feed. Anyone who wants ezuelan sf, offering throughout his engaging discussion to pitch in on whatever social media channels they traf- his own translations of extracts from various works. fic should use the hashtag #sfra2015. Of course the Sci- We also have our regular run of reviews and announce- ence Fiction Research Association Facebook page will ments, along with two conference reports courtesy of be active as well, if you’re following us there. myself. We’re not livestreaming any events, nor will the ban- Sadly, I will not be joining you all at Stony Brook quet be available to enjoy via your virtual reality goggles, 2 SFRA Review 312 Spring 2015 SFRA Review 312 Spring 2015 3 but we’re working to make SFRA 2015 at least a bit more itics of SF and the science fiction of Politics rage ever technologized. If you’re a long-time subscriber to the on, we can do worse than keep doing what we do in the SFRA listserv (now at mail.vtlibraries.com/mailman/ study of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Spock is still dead listinfo/sfra-l_vtlibraries.com in case you lost track of it so in the meantime, live long and prosper. And see you during its recent server relocation), but otherwise firmly in New York! embedded in your luddite skepticism, let this year’s con- ference be your excuse to add another channel to your information feed. SFRA Business Whether you’ll be there in person or virtually/vicari- Sideways in Time ously, I hope that many of you will participate in this year’s exploration of “The SF We Don’t (Usually) See: [conference report] Suppressed Histories, Liminal Voices, Emerging Media.” Chris Pak I ATTENDED the first day of a two day conference about VICE-PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE alternative histories, Sideways in Time, held on the 30th and 31st of March 2015 at the University of Liverpool. This event was co-organised by Glyn Morgan (Univer- Live Long and Prosper sity of Liverpool, founder of CRSF: Current Research Keren
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