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(Largely) Invisible Science Fictions by Paweł Frelik

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Grafting Symbiosis: Care, Empathy, and Scientific Reform in Naomi Mitchison’s Memoirs of a Spacewoman by Grace Borland Sinclair

“…This article examines the presence and potential applications of care, empathy, and anti-binary approaches in relation to scientific thought and practice in…”
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“I hope they really evolve into a different species from us”: Human-Nature Disconnection, Eeriness, and Social Class in Han Song’s “Submarines” by Eero Suoranta

“…Human-nature disconnection is commonly seen as one of the major problems caused by modernization with many in the industrialized world advocating for people,…”
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Giving Wands Their Due: Harry Potter, Speculative Realism, and the Power of Objects by Ian McLaughlin

“…Magical objects are legion in Harry Potter. Among them, wands are the most magical and the most taken for granted. Wands are usually seen as tools, but no tool…”
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A Created Adult and the Ideal Childhood: Genetic Technology, Childhood, and Class in Anne Charnock’s A Calculated Life by Jani Ylönen

“…Science fiction has discussed questions of ethics and reproduction since its birth. This article demonstrates how Anne Charnock’s A Calculated Life (2013)…”
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Conversation: What, How, Where, and Why is Speculation? by Essi Varis, Elise Kraatila, Hanna-Riikka Roine, & Sarah Bro Trasmundi

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The Critique of Colonial Cartography in N. K. Jemisin’s The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by Peter Melville

“…Epic fantasy is well-known for supplying readers with maps of fantastic secondary-world settings. N. K. Jemisin’s The Inheritance Trilogy is an example of an…”
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Hail and Farewell: An Interview with Fafnir’s Departing and Arriving Editors-In-Chief by Elizabeth Oakes & Essi Varis

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What Can Double Estrangement Reveal about Speculative Fiction? by Joy Sanchez-Taylor

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Kuinka kirjailija spekuloi? by Essi Varis

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Human-other entanglements in speculative future Arctics by Lindgren Leavenworth, Maria, Leavenworth, Van

“…Migrating from the periphery into the global consciousness, the vast Arctic is central to discussions about anthropogenic climate change. The spatio-temporal…”
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An Interview with Bob Crossley by John Kendall Hawkins

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World-Building as Grand-Scale Speculation: Planetary, Cosmic and Conceptual Thought Experiments in Emmi Itäranta’s The Moonday Letters by Elise Kraatila

“…Speculative fiction is commonly associated with highly involved artistic world-building. Indeed, speculation itself as an artistic practice often involves…”
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Conference Report: London Science Fiction Research Community Annual Conference by Amy Bouwer

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Time Travel, Alternate History, and Chronopolitics in the “The New Wave” of Chinese Science Fiction by Erik Mo Welin

“…The focus of this article is a small body of texts within “The New Wave” of Chinese science fiction, which emerged in the 1990s and 2000s. More specifically, I…”
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Some Notes on the Conceptions of Time and History in Speculative Fiction by Michael Godhe

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The Ancient Roots of Children’s Fantasy Fiction: From the Odyssey to Artemis Fowl and The Laws of Magic by Caylee Tierney & Lisa Fletcher

“…Critics of fantasy fiction stress that its roots lie in ancient mythology. This article offers a case study that tests the currency of this assumption for…”
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“Wheels turning in opposite directions”: the Utopian Dynamics of Individual and Collective Temporality in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed and Sheri S. Tepper’s The Gate to Women’s Country by Sarah Lohmann

“…Einstein may deem objective temporality an illusion, but temporal relations of self and other still strongly shape our lived experience. I explore how…”
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The Story of Intrusion: Time, Life/Death, Affirmation, and Representation in Ted Chiang’s “Story of Your Life” and Jean-Luc Nancy’s L’Intrus by Martijn J. Loos

“…Bringing Ted Chiang’s SF novella “Story of Your Life” (1998) into conversation with Jean-Luc Nancy’s autobiographical philosophical text L’Intrus (2002) sheds…”
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The Skeleton is Already Inside You: A Metaphoric Comic on Speculation by Essi Varis

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