|
Science
Fiction Studies
SFS is a refereed scholarly journal
that publishes articles, interviews, and book reviews on science fiction,
utopian fiction, and the fantastic. Our website
features abstracts of every article, full texts of every review, and
selected major essays published in the journal since its founding in
1973. It also includes important documents in the history of science
fiction, a host of links to interesting and useful sf sites, and a bibliography
of sf criticism. Beginning in the summer of 2002, all sold-out back
issues are now posted (full-text) on the SFS website. Click here
for a photo--circa 1998--of the editorial staff of SFS.
"Early
Classics of Science Fiction"
Since
2000, I have served as the general editor for this new book series from
Wesleyan University Press.
This series contains three lines: critical editions of classic English-language
sf, new translations of non-English sf, and monographs and other scholarly
studies that focus on early sf (pre-1940). According to Wesleyan, the
primary goal of this "Early Classics of Science Fiction" series
is: "to provide a venue for the publication and scholarly study
of neglected early works of science fiction and, in so doing, to expand
and enrich the traditional definitions of the genre." Here is a
list of the books published so far in this series. Click on the title
to see an enlarged photo of the book cover as well as a selection of book reviews.
fall
2001:
Jules Verne, Invasion of the Sea.
(1905) Trans. Edward Baxter. Ed. Arthur B. Evans.
Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island.
(1875) Trans. Stanley Kravitz. Eds. William Butcher and Arthur B. Evans.
spring
2002:
Camille Flammarion, Lumen.
(1872) Trans. and ed. Brian Stableford.
Justine Larbalestier, The Battle
of the Sexes in Science Fiction.
fall
2002:
Jean-Baptiste
Cousin de Grainville, The Last Man.
(1805) Trans. and ed. I.F and M. Clarke.
Jules Verne, The Mighty Orinoco.
(1898) Trans. Stanford Luce. Eds. Walter James Miller and Arthur B.
Evans.
spring
2003:
Kenneth Mackay, The Yellow Wave.
(1895) Eds. Andrew Enstice and Janeen Webb.
Andrea Bell and Yolanda Molina-Gavilán, eds., Cosmos
Latinos.
fall
2003:
Ignatius
Donnelly, Caesar's Column.
(1889). Ed. Nicholas Ruddick..
S. Fowler Wright, Deluge.
(1928). Ed. Brian Stableford.
spring
2004:
Albert Robida, The Twentieth
Century. (1882). Trans. Philippe Willems. Ed. Arthur B. Evans.
A. Merritt, The Moon Pool.
(1918). Ed. Michael Levy.
Olaf Stapledon. Star Maker.
(1937). Ed. Patrick A. McCarthy.
fall
2004:
W. Warren Wagar. H. G. Wells: Traversing
Time.
Emile Souvestre. The World As It
Shall Be. (1846). Trans. Margaret Clarke. Ed.
I.F. Clarke.
Peter Fitting, ed. Subterranean
Worlds: A Critical Anthology.
spring
2005
Edward Bulwer-Lytton. The Coming Race. (1871). Ed. David Seed.
fall
2005
Jules Verne. The Begum's Millions. (1879). Trans. Stanford L.
Luce. Eds. Peter Schulman and Arthur B. Evans.
spring 2006
Honoré de Balzac. The Centenarian. (1822). Trans. and ed. Danièle Chatelain and George Slusser.
fall 2006
H.G. Wells. Star Begotten. (1937). Ed. John Huntington.
spring 2007
Jules Verne. The Kip Brothers. (1902). Trans. Stanford L. Luce. Eds. Jean-Michel Margot and Arthur B. Evans.
spring 2008
John Rieder. Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction.
Other
Books, Articles, Lectures, etc.
My
scholarly interest in science fiction developed, oddly enough, out of
my studies in French surrealism. My first publication was a 1977 book
on Jean Cocteau called Jean Cocteau and his Films of Orphic Identity.
While working on my Ph.D. at Columbia University in the early 1980s,
I became fascinated with the "surreal" genre of science fiction,
eventually completing a doctoral dissertation on Jules Verne in 1985.
Its subsequent publication as Jules Verne Rediscovered (winning
the Eaton Award) marked the beginning of my continuing research and
editorial work in the field of science fiction. Some of my other publications,
lectures, interviews, etc. are listed below, a few of which are available
online (click on the title).
 
books, as author:
Jean Cocteau and his Films of Orphic Identity (Art Alliance Press,
1977).
Jules
Verne Rediscovered: Didacticism and the Scientific Novel (Greenwood
Press, 1988).
book, as co-editor:
On Philip K. Dick: 40 Articles from Science-Fiction Studies (SF-TH,
1992).
book, as contributing
editor:
En Route! Review Grammar, ed. Katia Brillé Lutz (Harcourt
Brace, 1985).
articles
in books and encyclopedias :
"Le Franglais vernien." Les Modernités de Jules
Verne, ed. (Presses Universitaires de France, 1988): 87-105.
"French Science Fiction." Handbook of French Popular Culture,
ed. Pierre Horn (Greenwood Press, 1990): 229-265.
"Jules Verne." Dictionary of Literary Biography: Nineteenth-Century
French Fiction Writers, 1860-1900, ed. Catharine Savage Brosman,
Vol. 123 (Gale, 1992): 275-97.
"Jules Verne." TCLC 52: Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism
(Gale, 1994): 336, 351-361.
"Vehicular
Utopias of Jules Verne." Transformations of Utopia: Changing
Views of the Perfect Society, eds. George Slusser et al. (NY: AMS
Press, 1999): 99-108.
"Jules Verne
and the French Literary Canon." Jules Verne: Narratives
of Modernity, (Liverpool University Press, 2000): 11-39.
"Authorities, Canons, and Scholarship: The Role of Academic Journals."
Science Fiction, Canonization, Marginalization, and the Academy,
ed. Gary Westfahl and George Slusser (Greenwood Press, 2002): 95-100.
"Robida, Albert." Encyclopedia Britannica. 2006. Encyclopedia Britannica Online. <http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9399929>.
"Verne, Jules." Encyclopedia Britannica. 2006. Encyclopedia Britannica Online. <http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9075124>.
articles in refereed scholarly journals :
"L'Etrange cas de la planète disparue––Hector
Servadac.'' Bulletin de la Société Jules Verne
75 1985): 233.
"Science
Fiction vs. Scientific Fiction in France: From Jules Verne to Rosny
Aîné.'' Science-Fiction Studies Vol. 15, #44
(1988): 1-11.
"The Extraordinary
Libraries of Jules Verne.'' L'Esprit créateur Vol.
28, # 1 (1988): 75- 86.
"Catachresis in Early Surrealist Poetry." Romantic Review
Vol. 79, #4 (1988): 621-632.
"Science Fiction in France: A Brief History and Selective Bibliography.''
Science-Fiction Studies Vol. 16, # 49 (1989): 254-276, 338-368.
"Functions
of Science in French Fiction.'' Studies in the Literary Imagination
Vol. 22, #1 (1989): 79-100.
"Optograms
and Fiction: Photo in a Dead Man's Eye.'' Science-Fiction Studies
Vol. 20, #61 (1993): 341-61.
"The Fantastic SF of Maurice Renard.'' Science-Fiction Studies
Vol. 21, #64 (1994): 380- 96.
"The 'New'
Jules Verne.'' Science-Fiction Studies Vol. 22, #65 (1995):
35-46.
"Jules Verne et la persistence rétinienne.'' Cahiers
du Musée Jules Verne #13 (1996): 11- 17.
"Literary
Intertexts in Jules Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires.'' Science-Fiction
Studies Vol. 23, #69 (1996): 171-87.
"North American College Courses in Science Fiction, Utopian Literature,
and Fantasy. '' Science-Fiction Studies Vol. 23, #70 (1996):
437-524.
"The Surrealistic Science Fiction of Serge Brussolo." Science-Fiction
Studies Vol. 24, #73 (1997): 430-40, (with Roger Bozzetto).
"The Illustrators
of Jules Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires." Science-Fiction
Studies Vol. 25, #75 (1998): 241-70.
"In Memoriam: Richard Dale Mullen." Science Fiction Studies Vol. 25, #76 (1998): 401-13.
"The
Origins of Science Fiction Criticism: from Kepler to Wells."
Science Fiction Studies Vol. 26, #78 (1999): 163-86.
"Hetzel and Verne: Collaboration and Conflict." Science Fiction Studies Vol. 28, #83 (2001): 97-106.
"Gustave Le Rouge, Pioneer of French Science Fiction." Science
Fiction Studies Vol. 29, #86 (2002): 1-14.
"The Curate's Egg: The Translations of (A)Round/A Tourof the World in Eighty Days." Extraordinary Voyages 9.2 (Dec. 2002): 2-5. Article co-written with William Butcher.
"Verne en Amérique: genèse d'une légende." Revue Jules Verne #15 (juin 2003): 47-60.
"Jules Verne's English Translations." Science Fiction Studies Vol. 32, #95 (2005): 80-104.
"A Bibliography of Jules Verne's English Translations." Science
Fiction Studies Vol. 32, #95 (2005): 105-141.
"Jules Verne: Exploring the Limits." Australian Journal of French Studies Vol. 42, no. 3 (September-December 2005): 265-75.
"Jules Verne's America." Extrapolation vol. 48 (Spring 2007): 35-43.
"Jules Verne in English: A Bibliography of Modern Editions and Scholarly Studies." Verniana Vol. 1 (2008): 9-22.
Articles in popular magazines:
"Jules Verne: Misunderstood Visionary." Scientific American (April 1997): 92-97.
"Jules Verne: visionnaire incompris." Pour la Science #2236 (juin 1997): 94-101.
Translations:
Roger Bozzetto. "Intercultural Interplay: SF in France and the
US.'' Science-Fiction Studies Vol. 17, #50 (1990): 1-24.
Roger Bozzetto. "Kepler's Somnium.'' Science-Fiction Studies
Vol. 17, #52 (1990): 370-382.
Jean
Baudrillard. "Simulacra and Science Fiction." Science-Fiction
Studies Vol. 18, #55 (1991): 309-313.
Jean
Baudrillard. "Ballard's Crash.'' Science-Fiction Studies
Vol. 18, #55 (1991): 313-320.
Hélène
Colas-Charpentier, "Four Québécois Dystopias.''
1963-1972,'' Science-Fiction Studies Vol. 20, #61 (1993): 383-393.
Maurice Renard. "On the Scientific-Marvellous Novel.'' Science-Fiction
Studies Vol 21, #64 (1994): 397-405.
Book
Reviews:
Paul K.
Alkon. Origins of Futuristic Fiction (Georgia University
Press, 1987) in Science-Fiction Studies Vol. 16, #47 (1989):
94-102.
Norbert Spehner.
Ecrits sur la science-fiction (Ed. Préamble, 1988)
in Science-Fiction Studies Vol. 16, #48 (1989): 240-242.
Andrew Martin. The Mask of the Prophet (Oxford UP, 1990) in Nineteenth-Century
French Studies Vol. 19, #4 (1991): 629-631.
Olena H. Sacuik,
ed. The Shape of the Fantastic (Greenwood Press, 1990) in
Science-Fiction Studies Vol. 18, #53 (1991): 140.
Michele K. Langford,
ed. Contours of the Fantastic (Greenwood Press, 1990) in
Science-Fiction Studies Vol. 18, #53 (1991): 140.
Monique Lebailly,
ed. La Science-fiction avant la SF (Ed. Instant, 1989) in
Science-Fiction Studies Vol. 18, #53 (1991): 141-143.
William Butcher.
Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Self (Macmillan, 1990)
in Science-Fiction Studies Vol. 18, #54 (1991): 275-279.
Daniel Compère. Jules Verne: Ecrivain (Droz, 1991) in
Nineteenth-Century French Studies Vol. 20, #3-4 (1992): 509-510.
Jules Verne.
The Floating Island (Routledge, 1991) in Science-Fiction
Studies Vol. 19, #57 (1992): 261-263.
Jules Verne.
The Complete Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, ed. and
trans. Emanuel J. Mickel (Indiana University Press, 1992) in Science-Fiction
Studies Vol. 19, #57 (1992): 261- 263.
Roger Bozzetto.
L'Obscur objet d'un savoir (Provence UP, 1992) in Science-Fiction
Studies Vol. 19, #58 (1992): 430.
Donald
E. Morse et al., eds. Celebration of the Fantastic (Greenwood
Press, 1992) in Science-Fiction Studies Vol. 20, #59 (1993):
119-120.
Nicholas
Ruddick, ed. State of the Fantastic (Greenwood Press, 1992)
in Science-Fiction Studies Vol. 20, #59 (1993): 119-120.
Timothy Unwin. Jules Verne: Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours
(Glascow UP, 1992) in Nineteenth-Century French Studies Vol.
22, #1-2 (1993-1994): 272-274.
Jules Verne.
Adventures of the Rat Family (Oxford UP, 1993) in Science-Fiction
Studies Vol. 21, #62 (1994): 118.
Bruce Cassiday,
ed. Modern Mystery, Fantasy, and Science Fiction Writers
(Continuum, 1993) in Science-Fiction Studies Vol. 21, #62 (1994):
119-120.
Paul K. Alkon.
Science Fiction Before 1900 (Twayne, 1994) in Science-Fiction
Studies Vol. 21, #64 (1994): 418-420.
Neil Barron,
ed. Anatomy of Wonder 4 (R.R. Bowker, 1995) in Science-Fiction
Studies Vol. 22, #66 (1995): 285-288.
Jules Verne.
Journey to the Center of the Earth, trans. William Butcher
(Oxford UP, 1992) in Science-Fiction Studies Vol. 22, #66 (1995):
288-289.
Jules Verne.
Around the World in 80 Days, trans. William Butcher (Oxford
UP, 1995) in Science-Fiction Studies Vol. 22, #66 (1995): 288-289.
Brian Taves and
Stephen Michaluk. The Jules Verne Encyclopedia (Scarecrow
Press, 1996) in Science-Fiction Studies Vol. 23, #69 (1996):
305-306.
David Seed, ed. Anticipations: Essays on Early Science Fiction and
its Precursors (Syracuse University Press, 1995) in Utopian Studies
Vol. 6, #1 (1996): 144-45.
Jules Verne. Paris in the Twentieth Century in The Indianapolis
Star (Sunday, Jan. 12, 1997): D6.
Herbert Lottman. Jules Verne: An Exploratory Biography in SFRA
Review No. 228 (March/April 1997): 57-59.
Roger Bozzetto.
Territoires des Fantastiques: des romans gothiques aux récits
d'horreur moderne (Univ. de Provence, 1998) in Science Fiction
Studies Vol. 26 #77 (1999): 149-50.
Stéphane
Nicot, ed. Les Univers de la Science-Fiction: Essais (Galaxies,
1998) in Science Fiction Studies Vol. 26 #77 (1999): 150-52.
Daniel Compère
and J.-M. Margot, eds. Entretiens avec Jules Verne, 1873-1905
(Slatkine, 1998) in Science Fiction Studies Vol. 26, #78 (1999):
334-36.
Thomas C. Renzi.
Jules Verne on Film (McFarland, 1998) in Science Fiction
Studies Vol. 26, #79 (1999): 493-95.
Gregory Claeys,
ed. Modern British Utopias, 1700-1850 (Pickering and Chatto,
1997) in Science Fiction Studies vol. 27, #81 (2000): 365-67.
Jules Verne. Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Around the World
in 80 Days, and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, trans.
William Butcher (Oxford UP, 1992, 1995, 1998) in Nineteenth-Century
French Studies Vol. 29, #1-2 (2000): 181-83.
Olivier
Dumas, Piero Gondolo della Riva, and Volker Dehs, eds. Correspondance
inédite de Jules Verne et de Pierre-Jules Hetzel (1863-1886).
Tome I (1863-1874) in Science Fiction Studies Vol. 28,
#83 (2001): 97-106.
Jean-Marc
and Randy Lofficier. French Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and
Pulp Fiction: A Guide to the Cinema, Television, Radio, Animation, Comic
Books, and Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present (McFarland,
2000) in Science Fiction Studies Vol. 28, #84 (2001): 275-83.
Jean-Marc Gouanvic. Sociologie de la traduction (Artois Presses,
1999) in Science Fiction Studies Vol. 28, #84 (2001): 303-04.
Alan Sandison and Robert Dingley, eds. Histories of the Future: Studies
in Fact, Fantasy and Science Fiction (Palgrave, 2000) in Science
Fiction Studies Vol. 29, #86 (2002): 128-32.
Nadia Minerva. Jules Verne aux confins de l'utopie. (Paris: L'Harmattan)
2001, in Utopian Studies Vol.13.2 (2002): 183-185.
Riikka Forsström. Possible Worlds: The Idea of Happiness in
the Utopian Vision of Louis-Sébastien Mercier (Helsinki:
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden) 2002, in Science Fiction Studies
vol. 30, #89 (2003): 130-32.
Arnaud Huftier, ed. La Belgique: un jeu de cartes? (Presses universitaires
de Valenciennes, 2003) in Science Fiction Studies Vol. 31, #94
(2004): 457-59.
Roger Bozzetto and Arnaud Huftier. Les Frontières du fantastique
(Presses universitaires de Valenciennes, 2004) in Science Fiction
Studies Vol. 31, #94 (2004): 457-59.
Jules Verne. Journey Through the Impossible. Trans. Edward Baxter. Ed. Jean-Michel Margot (Prometheus, 2003) in Science Fiction Studies Vol. 31, #94 (2004): 479-80.
"Centennial Scholarship on Jules Verne." Review of a variety of books on/by Jules Verne published in 2005. In Science Fiction Studies Vol. 34, #100 (2006): 557-61.
Timothy Unwin. Jules Verne: Journeys in Writing (Liverpool UP, 2005) in Modern Language Review 102.2 (2007): 517-18.
Published
notes, correspondence, interviews, etc.:
Olivier Dumas. "La Loi du Nautilus.'' Bulletin de la Société Jules Verne #98 (1991): 48.
Olivier Dumas. "Les Variantes de Vingt mille lieues sous les mers.'' Bulletin de la Société Jules Verne #105 (1993):
34.
Jim Zook. "Daring Journal of SF Theory." The Chronicle
of Higher Education (June 1, 1994): sect. A, p. 8.
"Actualités de Jules Verne.'' Bulletin de la Société Jules Verne #111 (1994): 4.
"Verne: A Friend to Every Boy.'' Foundation: The Review of Science
Fiction #64 (Summer 1995): 97-98.
Roger M. Showley. "A Jules Verne S.D. Adventure." San Diego
Union-Tribune (Dec. 22, 1999).
Kristi Wright. "Looking Ahead: Jules Verne Would Be Happy With
Future." Omaha Sunday World-Herald (Jan. 16, 2000).
Linton Weeks and John Schwartz. "Sci-Fi, Chasing a Warp-Speed Universe."
The Washington Post (May 13, 2000): sect. C, pp. 1, 4.
Roger Moore. "Hollywood's Double Vision: Clones." The Orlando
Sentinel (Aug. 22, 2001).
Scott McLemee. "Lost
Worlds of Science Fiction." The Chronicle of Higher Education
(Dec. 21, 2001): sect. A, pp. 12-13.
William Porter. "Afro-American Sci-Fi Writers." The Denver
Post (Feb. 17, 2002).
Susan Adams. "Eerily
Prescient" Forbes Magazine (April 15, 2002).
Doug Stewart. "Prescient and Accounted For." Smithsonian Vol. 35, no. 12 (March 2005): 103-07. Interview on Verne's centenary.
"Prophetic Jules Verne Recalled a Century After Novelist's Death." Associated Press article reprinted in the Courier-Post (New Jersey) on March 16, 2005 and in The Indianapolis Star on March 25, 2005, among other daily newspapers.
John J. Miller. "A Century After His Death: A Jules Verne Revival."The Wall Street Journal (Sept. 18, 2007): D8.
Ronald Hawkins. "No Longer Considered Pulp Fiction." Reporter-Times (March 20, 2008).
Public
lecture:
"Jules
Verne, Science Fiction, and Academe.'' Guest lecture given at the
Smithsonian Institution (Air and Space Museum) on Jan. 24, 1995.
Documentary film:
Consultant for the History Channel's Fantastic Voyage: Evolution of Science Fiction (Atlas Media Corp. Producer/Director Bill McClaine. First broadcast on Sept. 28, 2002.)
|
