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Thomas Connolly [email protected] PB • SFRA Review 54-3 • Fall 2020 SFRA Review 50.4 • Fall 2020 • 1 SFRA Review, vol. 50, no. 4, Fall 2020 FROM THE EDITOR Namárië ...............................................................................................................................6 FROM THE SFRA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE From the President ............................................................................................................8 From the Vice President ..................................................................................................10 FEATURES The Modern High Fantasy Novel was Born in France: An Essay on Reverse Literary History ........................................................................................................13 The SF in Translation Universe #9 .................................................................................25 Meet the Future: An Interview with Nichole Nomura................................................27 Introducing the 2020-2021 Support a Scholar Grant Recipient ................................31 SYMPOSIUM: CYBERPUNK CULTURE The CyberPunk Culture Conference .............................................................................34 The Horror of Direct Experience: Cyberpunk Bodies and “The Machine Stops” ...37 Fabulation of Alternative Parallel Universes: Queertopia in Turkish Science Fiction .........................................................................................................................45 The Fractal Subject and the Hologram Rose: On Baudrillard and Cyberpunk as Media Theory .............................................................................................................52 Cyberpunk in the Museum: Actuality, Future, and the Challenges of Exhibiting Movie Memorabilia ...................................................................................................59 Ontology of the Hologram: Gothic Tropes and the Ontological Transgressions of Technoscience .......................................................................................................68 “The (Cyber) Center Cannot Hold”: .............................................................................77 Futures, Bodies and Minds in William Gibson’s The Peripheral ................................77 Pants Scientists and Bona Fide Cyber Ninjas: Tracing the Poetics of Cyberpunk Menswear ...................................................................................................................85 2 • SFRA Review 54-3 • Fall 2020 SFRA Review 50.4 • Fall 2020 • 3 SFRA REVIEW, VOL. 50, NO. 4, FALL 2020 SYMPOSIUM: EUROPEAN SPECULATIVE FICTION AND THE POLITICAL Introducing the Symposium on European Speculative Fiction and the Political ...99 Unheard Voices: The Time-Travelling Woman as Writer of History ......................101 The Problem with Prequels: Revising Canon is an Exercise in Authorial Con- trol and Navigating Fandom Politics in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes .....................................................110 “Just as Orwell said”: The Emergence of a “Dystopian Framing” in French Con- servative Media in the 2010s .................................................................................119 Black Mirror Prosumers and the Contemporary Domain ........................................128 Architectural Responses in Alternative Realities: The Politics of Space through Fiction in Architectural Education .......................................................................136 NONFICTION REVIEWS Publishing the Science Fiction Canon: The Case of Scientific Romance ...............145 Posthuman Folklore ......................................................................................................148 None of This Is Normal: The Fiction of Jeff VanderMeer .........................................150 Other Worlds: Spirituality and the Search for Invisible Dimensions ......................154 Transformative Heroines in Young Adult Dystopian Literature .............................157 “The Sweet and the Bitter”: Death and Dying in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings ....................................................................................................................160 Alternate Worlds: The Illustrated History of Science Fiction ..................................163 Desire and Empathy in Twentieth-Century Dystopian Fiction ..............................166 Thrills Untapped: Neglected Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films, 1928- 1936 ...........................................................................................................................169 Economic Science Fictions ...........................................................................................172 MEDIA REVIEWS Outer Wilds ....................................................................................................................180 Devs, season 1 ................................................................................................................183 2 • SFRA Review 54-3 • Fall 2020 SFRA Review 50.4 • Fall 2020 • 3 SFRA Review Editors Emeriti Editors Ed McKnight, 2001-2010 Chris Pak, 2014-2018 Neil Barron, 1998-2001 Michael Klein, 2013 B. Diane Miller (assistant), 1993-1996 Doug Davis, 2011-2013 Robert Reginald, 1993 Jason Embry, 2011-2012 Neil Barron, 1990-1992 Karen Hellekson, 2008-2010 Rob Latham (“Review Editor”), 198?-1989 Craig Jacobsen, 2008-2010 Fiction Editors Christine Mains, 2002-2007 Jeremy Brett, 2015-2019 Shelley Rodrigo Blanchard, 2001-2002 Jim Davis, 2011-2015 Barbara Lucas, 2001-2002 Edward Carmien, 2006-2010 Karen Hellekson, 1998-2000 Philip Snyder, 2001-2006 Craig Jacobsen, 1998-2000 Shelley Rodrigo Blanchard, 2001 Amy Sisson, 1994-1997 Craig Jacobsen, 1998-2000 Daryl F. Mallett, 1993-1994 Daryl F. Mallett, 1993-1994 Besty Harfst, 1989-1992 Robert Collins, 1990-1992 Robert Collins, 1987-1989 Rob Latham (“Review Editor”), 198?-1989 Richard W. Miller, 1984-1987 Elizabeth Anne Hull, 1981-1984 Young Adult Fiction Editors Roald Tweet, 1978-1981 Muriel R. Becker, 1990-1994 Beverly Friend, 1974-1978 Fred Lerner, 1971-1974 Media Editors Ritch Calvin, 2008-2015 Managing Editors E. Susan Baugh, 1993-1994 Lars Schmeink, 2011-2015 Michael Klossner, 1992-1993 Janice M. Bogstad, 2003-201 Ted Krulik, 198?-1989 Associate Editors Book News Editor B. Diane Miller, 1993-1994 Martin A. Schneider, 198?-1989 Robert Reginald, 1990-993 Catherine Fischer, 198?-1989 Affiliated Products Editor Furumi Sano, 1993-1994 Assistant Editors Paul Abell, 1994-1997 Editorial Assistants William R. Mallett, 1994 Tiffany Johnson, 2000 Masuko Mallett, 1994 Jeanette Lawson, 198?-1989 Kimberly J. Baltzer, 1993-1994 Clint Zehner, 1993-1994 Annette