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Papers

(The TQCC of Science-Fiction Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Call for Submissions: “Narrative Complexity in Recent Time-Travel Media.”	2
The Incredible Nineteenth Century: New Journal of Nineteenth Century Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale	2
Book Chapters: Class Conflict in 21st Century SF Film	1
Review: Zhongguo Bainian Kehuan Wenxue Fanyishi Yanjiu, by Qin Li	1
Special issue of REDEN (Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos): “(Super)Heroes in the 21st-Century American Imagination.”	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Review: Horizons of the Future: Science Fiction, Utopian Imagination, and the Politics of Education, by Graham B. Slater	0
Utopianism after the American Century	0
Call for Book Chapters: Reinventing The Witch: Witchcraft and Sorcery in 21st-Century Fiction and Film.	0
Seaweed Salvation	0
Review: H.G. Wells: Contemporary Perspectives , edited by Lourdes López-Ropero	0
Let the Light Shine Through	0
The Vanished Political and Cultural Imagination	0
Notes and Correspondence	0
Special Issue of The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture: The Afterlife in Popular Culture	0
Books Received	0
Books Received	0
Index for Volume 51 (2024)	0
Review: Mutant Narratives in Ecological Science Fiction: Thinking with Embodied Estrangement, by Kaisa Kortekallio	0
Speculation in the Dark	0
Review: Material Ecocriticism and Sylvan Agency in Speculative Fiction: The Forests of the World, by Britt Maria Colligs	0
Call for Applications: R.D. Mullen Fellowships, 2024	0
“No One Can Admit It Doesn’t Work”	0
Review: Translating the Nonhuman: What Science Fiction Can Teach Us About Translating, by Douglas Robinson	0
Annual Awards, Science Fiction Research Association	0

Review: Black Speculative Feminisms: Memory and Liberated Futures in Black Women’s Fiction, by Cassandra L. Jones	0
Review: Afrofuturism and World Order , by Reynaldo Anderson	0
Review: This Is Not a Science Fiction Textbook, edited by Mark Bould and Steven Shaviro	0
Review: Jewish Women Science Fiction Writers Create Future Females: Gender, Temporality—And Yentas , edited by Marleen S. Barr	0
Review: Strangelove Country: Science Fiction, Filmosophy, and the Kubrickian Consciousness , by D. Harlan Wilson	0
“Do You Know Where Home Is?”	0
Coming in 2024: 82nd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, Scotland; August 8-12	0
Call for Papers: America and Deep Time: Alternate Geographies, Temporalities, and Histories. The 2023 Annual Conference of the Polish Association for American Studies	0
CFP: Like A Version: Adaptations, Reboots, and Remakes in Popular Culture	0
Special Issue of Postmodern Culture: “Speculative Fiction and Futurism in the Middle East and North Africa.”	0
Review: The Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities , edited by Gavin Miller, Anna McFarlane, and Donna McCormack	0
Review: Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction, by Jerry Rafiki Jenkins	0
Meshwork Ecology: Climate and Colonialism in Diene’s Hell Freezes Over and Ruga’s Public Service Announcement	0
Multiverse SF and Fantasy Convention. 14-16 Oct. 2022, Atlanta, GA	0
Review: The Cambridge Introduction to Literary Posthumanism, by Joseph Tabbi	0
Review: Horror and Science Fiction Cinema and Society: American Culture and Politics in the Cold War and After Through the Projector Lens, by Martin Harris	0
Review: Decoding Digital Culture with Science Fiction, by Alan N. Shapiro	0
Review: The Future Imaginary in Indigenous North American Arts and Literatures, by Kristina Baudemann	0
African SF: An Introduction	0
Special issue of American Imago, Comics on the Couch: Graphic Medicine and Psychoanalysis	0
Books Received	0
Science Fiction of the 1870s	0
Growth, Resource, Population	0
From the Editor	0
Review: Animals and Science Fiction , edited by Nora Castle and Giulia Champion	0
Special Issue of Hélice: Motherhood in SF	0
A Good Trooper	0
Review: Thinking Through High-Tech Hell: A Theory of the New Media Dystopia, by Miguel Sebastián-Martín	0
Review: The Multiverse as Theory in Postmodern Speculative Fictional Narratives, edited by Angélica Cabrera Torrecilla and Francisco Sáez de Adana	0
SFRA’s New Scholar Program	0
Call for Contributions: Femspec	0
AI and Fandom	0
Review: Spatialities of Speculative Fiction: Re-Mapping Possibilities, Philosophies, and Territorialities, by Gwilym Lucas Eades	0
Embodying Time and Futurity in the Short Stories of Tendai Huchu and Temitayo Olofinlua	0
Afro-weird	0
“Every Moment In Touch”	0
What are the Genres of Polycrisis?	0
The Philosophical Significance of Douglas Adams’s Comic AI Characters	0
Review: After the Flying Saucers Came: A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon , by Greg Eghigian	0
Review: The Boom & The Boom: Historical Rupture and Political Economy in Contemporary British and Chinese Science Fiction , by LYU Guangzhao	0
Second Annual C.S. Lewis Symposium at Ulster University, 13-14 November 2023, Ulster University, Coleraine (Northern Ireland)	0
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Modern Fiction Studies on African Literature and Climate Change	0
New Series: Posthumanities and Citizenship Futures	0
Review: The Routledge Handbook of AI and Literature , edited by Will Slocombe and Genevieve Liveley	0
Speculative Fiction Across Media, October 17-19 2024, Los Angeles	0
Call for Submissions: Edited Collection on “Nightmare/s in the Long Nineteenth Century.”	0
Special Issue of The Wellsian, Journal of the H.G. Wells Society: “The War of the Worlds, 125th Anniversary.”	0
Call for Submissions: “Posthumanism: Twenty-First Century Perspectives.”	0
Review: Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre , by Joy Sanchez-Taylor	0
Peter Nicholls Essay Prize 2023	0

From the Editors	0
Silence, Implication, and Style in Octavia E. Butler’s “Bloodchild”	0
Review: Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right, by Jordan S. Carroll	0
A Radical Monopoly on Sapience	0
“Kommissar Rex!” The Place, Role, and Representation of Animals in Contemporary Media	0
Review: J.G. Ballard’s Crash, by Paul March-Russell	0
Between Cosmology and Technology: Nonhuman Near-Omniscience as Animist Practice in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon	0
Review: Afrocentricity in Afrofuturism: Toward Afrocentric Futurism , edited by Aaron X. Smith	0
Count on Me, Singapore	0
SFRA Student Paper Award Submissions	0
Review: Dear Incomprehension: On American Speculative Fiction, by Stéphane Vanderhaeghe	0
CFP: Celebrating 215 years of Edgar Allan Poe	0
Literary Realism, Speculative Fiction, and Queer African Futures in Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater	0
Books Received	0
Framing the Unreal: Exploring Graphic/Visual Science Fiction & Fantasy	0
Review: Feminist Posthumanism in Contemporary Science Fiction Film and Media: From Annihilation to High Life and Beyond , edited by Julia A. Empey and Ru	0
Book Series: Transmedia Monsters and Villains	0
Science Fiction in Korea: Between History, Genre, and Politics: A Digital Exhibition at USC	0
Review: Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown: Entangled Futurities, edited by Heather Alberro, Emrah Atasoy, Nora Castle, Rhiannon Firth, and Conrad Scott	0
Review: Science Fiction Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Transnational Futures, Cosmopolitan Concerns , by Pablo Gómez-Muñoz	0
Palgrave SFF: A New Canon	0
Call for Chapters: “Interdisciplinary Studies on German Philology: Cyberpunk and Digital Rebellion of AI.”	0
International Conference on Victorian and American Myths in Video Games	0
Allotropes and Speculative Obligation: SF in Southern Africa	0
Longer and Better Lives?	0
Prosthetic Kokoro	0
Aquatic Transformations, Flexible Subjects, and Environmental Change in Contemporary Filipino Speculative Tales	0
Review: H.G. Wells and the Twenty-First Century , by Bill Cooke	0
Review: The Ex-human: Science Fiction and the Fate of Our Species, by Michael Bérubé	0
Review: Programming the Future: Politics, Resistance, and Utopia in Contemporary Speculative TV , by Sherryl Vint and Jonathan Alexander	0
Review: Patriarchy’s Creative Resilience: Late Victorian Speculative Fiction, by Michael Kramp	0
Vampire Studies: New Perspectives on the Undead	0
The Polyhedral Character and Ethical Drift in What Mad Universe and Nineteen Eighty-Four	0
Monstrous Woman and the Decolonial Gothic Female Gaze in Nuraliah Norasid’s The Gatekeeper	0
Review: Equipping Space Cadets: Primary Science Fiction for Young Children , by Emily Midkiff	0
Corrigendum	0
“We resolve not to smile”	0
The Time of SF is Over	0
Review: The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms, by Taryne Jade Taylor, Isiah Lavender III, Grace L. Dillon, and Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay	0
Review: Arrival, by David Roche	0
Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction as Slipstream	0
Dystopian Figurations of the Neoliberal Workplace	0
Mechanization and the Child. Special issue of The Journal of Children in Popular Culture	0
NOAA Book Club and the Environment	0
Review: Worlds Built to Fall Apart: Versions of Philip K. Dick, by David Lapoujade	0
Contested Homes in Speculative Futurities in Anglophone Bruneian Fiction	0
Review: The Stuff of Science Fiction: Hardware, Settings, Characters , by Gary Westfahl	0
Critical Plant Studies	0
“Jungle Dreams”	0
Review: La fantascienza italiana contro il boom economico? Quattro narrazioni distopiche degli anni Sessanta (Aldani, Buzzati, De Rossignoli, Scerbanenco) [Italian Science Fiction against the E	0
Remedios Varo: Science Fictions at the Chicago Art Institute	0
“ Messengers from the Stars : On SF and Fantasy.”	0
Beyond the East-West Dichotomy	0
Call for Proposals: “What Writing is Like: The Many Worlds of Russell T. Davies”	0
Flowers for Algernon	0
Review: Nordic Speculative Fiction: Research, Theory, and Practise , edited by Jyrki Korpua, Aino-Kaisa Koistinen, Hanna-Riikka Roine, and Marta Mboka Tv	0
Studies in Popular Culture: Book Reviews	0
Reality Games	0
Review: The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction, edited by Mark Bould, Andrew M. Butler, and Sherryl Vint	0
Reading Bodies as Sites of Invention in N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy	0
Review: Chinese Science Fiction: Concepts, Forms, and Histories, edited by Mingwei Song, Nathaniel Isaacson, and Hua Li	0
Review: Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction , by Mingwei Song	0
Metallic Mode: Exploring African Speculative Fiction through the Affordances of Metal	0
Econologariums	0
Charlatans of AI?	0
Books Received	0
Review: William Gibson’s Neuromancer: A Critical Companion , by Graham J. Murphy	0
Edited Collection on Posthumanism: A Study in 21st-century Perspectives	0
The Wizard of Oz at UNC Charlotte, 21-24 September 2024; Call for7533Presentations	0