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304 Spring 2013 Editors Doug Davis SFRA Gordon State College A publicationRe of the Scienceview Fiction Research Association 419 College Drive Barnesville, GA 30204 [email protected] In this issue Michael Klein James Madison University SFRA Review Business MSC 2103 Plays Well With Others ........................................................................................2 Harrisonburg, VA 22807 [email protected] SFRA Business Changes, Changes, Changes................................................................................2 Managing Editor Reflections on a Long Weekend Well Spent ......................................................3 Lars Schmeink Treasurer’s Report .................................................................................................4 Universität Hamburg Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Executive Committee Business Meeting ...........................................................5 Von Melle Park 6 General Membership Business Meeting ............................................................7 20146 Hamburg [email protected] 2012-2013 SFRA Awards Pilgrim Award Remarks ......................................................................................8 Nonfiction Editor Pilgrim Award Acceptance Speech ....................................................................9 Michael Klein Pioneer Award Remarks ......................................................................................9 James Madison University Pioneer Award Acceptance Speech ..................................................................10 MSC 2103 Harrisonburg, VA 22807 Clareson Award Remarks ..................................................................................11 [email protected] Clareson Award Acceptance Speech ................................................................12 Mary K. Bray Award Remarks ..........................................................................12 Fiction Editor Mary K. Bray Award Acceptance Speech ........................................................12 Jim Davis Student Paper Award Remarks .........................................................................13 Troy University Student Paper Award Acceptance Speech .......................................................13 Smith 274 Troy, AL 36082 Feature 101 [email protected] Brain and Dualism in Star Trek ........................................................................14 Media Editor Nonfiction Reviews Ritch Calvin The Spacesuit Film: A History, 1918-1969 ........................................................25 SUNY Stony Brook Starboard Wine: More Notes on the Language of Science Fiction ..................26 W0515 Melville Library Stony Brook, NY 11794-3360 The Humanism of Doctor Who ..........................................................................27 [email protected] Language in Science Fiction and Fantasy .........................................................29 Submissions Fiction Reviews The SFRA Review encourages submissions of Fighting Gravity ...................................................................................................31 reviews, review essays that cover several related texts, interviews, and feature articles. Submis- Flight Behavior ....................................................................................................32 sion guidelines are available at http://www.sfra. org/ or by inquiry to the appropriate editor. All Media Reviews submitters must be current SFRA members. Contact the Editors for other submissions or for Skyfall [film] ........................................................................................................35 correspondence. Announcements The SFRA Review (ISSN 1068-395X) is pub- lished four times a year by the Science Ficiton Call for Papers.....................................................................................................40 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 304 Spring 2013 SFRA Review 304 Spring 2013 1 SFRA Review Business SFRA Business EDITORS’ MESSAGE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Plays Well With Others Changes, Changes, Changes Doug Davis Pawel Frelik AS I WRITE THIS, the joint Eaton/SFRA Conference THE JOINT EATON/SFRA CONFERENCE is behind has recently come to an end and all the participants have us and I think we can all agree that it was nothing short returned to their homes around the globe. While each of a success. The critical mass of people, ideas and con- SFRA and Eaton conference on its own usually has the versations was certainly achieved and the southern Cali- intimate feel of a family gathering, attending the joint fornia climes helped the conference’s mood, too. Given conference felt different: the SFRA family was now par- how big the event was, one might find it surprising that ticipating in a much larger meeting of a greater intel- there were so few glitches. Then again, it is not, consider- lectual community. It was a good feeling. It showed me ing the expert team that put the meeting together. For all just how many professional and independent scholars their hard work and moments of exhaustion and despair and artists are committed to the serious study of sci- we will never know about but which every event of this ence fiction: not dozens and dozens but hundreds and size is burdened with, I would like to thank once again hundreds. The conference organizers in Riverside did a the people who made it possible: Melissa Conway, Sher- tremendous job hosting our massive combined crew. I ryl Vint, Rob Latham, and Patrick Sharp but also Sarah direct you to the messages from SFRA President Pawel Allison and Julie Ree as well as all students and helpers Frelik and Vice President Amy Ransom below for their that we may not even know by name but who certainly reflections on both our recent meeting and the year to contributed to what Eaton/SFRA 2013 was. Thank you so come. Of course, this recent combined conference was much! not the first time that the SFRA had joined forces with And since we’re on the subject of conferences, in 2014 another scholarly group. Past combined meetings in- SFRA will again partner for its annual conference—this clude those with the Heinlein Society and the Campbell time with WisCon. Mike Levy, the conference director, Conference. And there are more joint meetings to come, who works with Rebecca Holden and Victor Raymond, starting next year. If the joint SFRA/Eaton conference will issue the call for papers very soon, but we know al- felt like a large community meeting, I cannot imagine ready that the principal SFRA hotel will be two blocks what the joint SFRA/WisCon meeting will feel like…. from WisCon’s main convention hotel and that all attend- In this issue of the Review, readers can experience the ing SFRA members will have access to almost all Wis- inner workings of the SFRA via the two sets of meet- Con events. Naturally, the event will be held on the same ing minutes taken at our recent conference by Secretary weekend as WisCon—May 23-26, 2014. Jenni Halpin, one from the Executive Committee’s own Since the previous issue of Review, we have had some annual meeting and the other from the conference’s con- personnel changes. Due to other obligations Susan cluding business meeting. Treasurer Steven Berman has George had to step down as Treasurer. Even though she prepared a treasurer’s report that details the financial was not treasurer for long, she definitely helped the orga- state of the SFRA. In addition to our usual slate of fine nization sail through the crucial period of membership reviews, this issue also contains a new Feature 101 piece renewals, which this year was additionally complicated by one of our regular contributors, Dr. Victor Grech. In with the introduction of the new membership back-end his 101 piece, Dr. Grech treats us to an extensive analysis on the website. Thank you so much for this, Susan. Equal of philosophical dualism across Star Trek’s many itera- thanks are due to Steve Berman, who, without much ear- tions that should be helpful for anyone who teaches the lier notice, kindly agreed to take over the position. Given series. Enjoy! his organizational skills proven at the Detroit conference in 2012, the transfer should not be felt in any way—just make sure you know who to send money to. We would also like to welcome Michael Klein, who is now officially 2 SFRA Review 304 Spring 2013 SFRA Review 304 Spring 2013 3 the co-editor of SFRA Review with Doug Davis. tle (thanks, Mike!), and had several hours to wander Riv- Still in the changes department, during its Riverside erside’s glorious little downtown. Reading some Lovecraft meeting, the EC decided to proceed with several mea- on my Kindle in the shady park below the foothills offered sures that will improve the look and the functionality of a peaceful, but somehow science-fictionally appropriate the website. If all goes well, we may see a new visual design moment, as past and present, contemporary technology by the end of the calendar year while the organizational and classic cosmic horror blurred, before friends began memory, as reflected on the website, will definitely get a to arrive and the flurry of the conference experience, both solid boost over the summer. We will steadily solidify our social and intellectual stimulation, began. social media, too—our goal is to have at