Science Fiction Criticism

by Rob Latham;

  Fifty-Five Days at Peking (film) here

  Film/Genre (Altman) here

  Finnegan’s Wake (Joyce) here, here

  The First Men in the Moon (Wells) here

  First Nations here, here

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott here

  Flash Gordon (TV series) here

  Flatland (Abbott) here

  Flaubert, Gustave here, here

  Flax, Jane here

  Fludernik, Monika here

  The Fly (film) here, here, here

  The Food of the Gods (Wells) here, here

  Foote, Bud here

  Footfall (Niven & Pournelle) here

  Forbidden Planet (film) here

  The Forever War (Hadelman) here

  Foster, Hal here–here

  Foster, Thomas here, here, here, here

  Foucault, Michel here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Foundation series (Asimov) here, here, here, here

  Fowler, Alistair here, here

  Fowler, Karen Joy here

  “Fragments of a Hologram Rose” (Gibson) here

  France, Anatole here

  Franju, Georges here–here

  Frankenstein (film) here

  Frankenstein (Shelley) here–here, here, here, here, here, here–here

  Franklin, H. Bruce here–here

  Freedman, Carl here, here

  French science fiction here

  Freud, Sigmund here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here, here

  see also psychoanalysis

  Friedan, Betty here

  From the Earth to the Moon (Verne) here

  Frontera (Shiner) here

  Frontera de espejos rotos [Border of Broken Mirrors] (Schwarz & Webb) here

  Frow, John here, here, here, here

  Fudge, Erica here, here, here

  Fukushima, Kiyohiko here

  future/futurism here, here–here, here–here

  African artists disenchantment with here

  alternative futurism here–here

  counterfutures here–here, here

  futures industry here, here

  non-homophobic view of here–here

  and posthumanism here–here, here, here

  and power here–here

  and singularity here–here

  see also Afrofuturism; Chicanafuturism; posthumanism

  future history here, here, here

  fuzzy set here–here

  Gaba, Georges here

  Gaba, Meshac here

  gadget stories here, here–here

  Galarza, Ernesto here, here

  Galaxy Express (TV series) here

  Galileo Galilei here, here

  Gallagher, Ellen here

  gangster films here

  “Garden of Forking Paths” (Borges) here

  Garnett, David here

  Garrard, Greg here

  Gates, Katherine here, here

  Gauss, Carl Friedrich here

  The Gay Science (Nietzsche) here

  gender here–here

  in Aleutian Trilogy here, here

  and ASFRians here–here

  and artificial beings here–here

  and colonialism here

  equality here–here, here

  role models here, here–here, here

  and sexual preferences here

  and social power here–here

  and technosocial affinity here

  see also feminism; masculinity; women

  Genette, Gérard here, here, here, here

  The Genocides (Disch) here–here, here–here

  and The Word for World is Forest compared here, here, here

  genre(s) here, here–here, here–here, here–here, here

  and academic practices here

  attribution here–here, here–here, here–here

  as boundary objects here

  and commercial practices here–here

  and communities of practice here–here

  and concept of family resemblance here, here–here, here, here

  construction here–here

  as a historical process here–here

  hybridity here, here

  overlapping and mutability of here

  and rhizomatic assemblage here–here

  science fiction as a literary genre here–here, here

  as symbolic action here–here

  as symptom and reflex of historical change here–here

  of time-travel stories here–here, here

  George, Edward here

  German science fiction here, here

  “The Gernsback Continuum” (Gibson) here–here

  Gernsback, Hugo here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  see also Amazing Stories

  Ghosh, Amitav here

  Ghost in the Shell (film) here, here, here, here

  Ghost in the Shell here: Innocence (film) here, here–here, here–here

  Gibson, William here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here, here, here

  Gilgamesh, Epic of here

  Gilroy, Paul here, here, here, here, here

  The Glass Hammer (Jeter) here–here, here–here, here

  Glicksohn, Susan here

  globalization here–here

  see also capitalism; neoliberalism

  Godard, Jean-Luc here

  Golden Ass of Apuleius here

  Golden Book (periodical) here

  Golden, Thelma here

  Gold, H. L. here, here

  Golumbia, David here

  Gómez-Peña, Guillermo here, here–here

  González, John Morán here, here, here, here

  Good Housekeeping (periodical) here

  Good, I. J. here, here, here

  Goodman, Nelson here

  Gordon, Joan here

  Gothic romances here, here–here

  Gott, Richard here

  Graff, Gerald here–here

  Grant, Glenn here

  Grave 4 CD (album) here

  Gravity’s Rainbow (Pynchon) here

  Great Sky River (Benford) here

  Greene, Brian here

  Greene, Graham here

  Griaule, Marcel here

  Griffin, Susan here

  Griffith, D. W. here

  Grossman, Rachel here

  Guattari, Felix here, here, here

  Les Guérillères (Wittig) here

  Guillory, John here

  Gulick, Sidney L. here–here

  Gulliver’s Travels (Swift) here, here, here

  Gurney, Bernard Gilbert here

  Haggard, H. Rider here, here

  Haldeman, Joe here

  Hamilton, Edward here

  “The Hammon and the Beans” (Paredes) here

  Hamon, Philippe here, here

  The Handmaid’s Tale (Atwood) here, here, here–here

  Handsman, Russell here

  Haraway, Donna here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here

  hard science fiction here, here, here, here, here–here, here

  and superhuman intelligence here

  and time-travel here–here

  Hardt, Michael here, here, here–here, here, here–here, here–here, here

  Hardware (film) here

  Harris, Clare Winger here–here

  Harris, John Beynon, see Wyndham, John

  Hartwell, David here, here, here

  Harvey, David here, here

  HAS, see human-animal studies

  Hassan, Ihab here, here

  Hawking, Stephen here

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel here, here

  Hayden, Tom here, here, here

  Hayles, Katherine here, here, here, here, here

  Healy, Raymond J. here

  Heard, Gerald here

  Heart of Aztlán (Anaya) here–here

  “The Heat Death of the Universe” (Zoline) here

  Heidegger, Martin here,
here, here, here, here

  Heinlein in Dimension (Panshin) here

  Heinlein, Robert A. here–here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Heisenberg, Werner here, here, here

  Hendershot, Cyndy here

  Henderson, Zenna here, here, here

  Herbert, Frank here, here

  Heroes and Villains (Carter) here

  Hicks, D. Emily here–here

  High-Aztech (Hogan) here

  The Historical Novel (Lukács) here–here

  historical novels here–here

  and science fiction here

  “The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis” (White) here

  History of the Russian Revolution (Trotsky) here

  The H-Men (film) here

  Hoban, Russell here

  Hoffman, E. T. A. here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Hogan, Ernest here

  Hollinger, Veronica here, here, here

  homosexuality here–here, here–here

  cultural anxiety about here–here

  heterosexual/homosexual dyad here–here, here

  repressed here–here

  see also queer theory; sexuality

  Honda, Inoshiro here, here, here

  Hong, Cathy Park here

  Hopkinson, Nalo here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here

  Horkheimer, Max here, here–here, here

  Hornyak, Timothy N. here, here

  Horowitz, David here

  horror here

  horror films here, here

  and science fiction films compared here

  “Houston, Houston, Do You Read?” (Tiptree) here–here

  How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Yu) here

  Hubbard, L. Ron here, here

  human-animal studies (HAS) here

  central concerns of here, here–here

  and science fiction here–here, here

  humanoids here–here, here–here, here–here

  in science fiction films here–here

  see also androids; artificial beings; robot(s)

  “The Hungry Guinea Pig” (Breur) here

  Huxley, Aldous here, here

  Huyssen, Andreas here, here, here, here, here

  Hyperion (Simmons) here

  IA, see intelligence amplification

  Iconographie photographique de la Salpêtrière (Charcot) here

  iconography here–here, here, here, here

  spaceships here

  identity politics here, here, here–here

  critique of feminist focus on here–here

  ideology here–here

  in Le Guin’s Lathe of Heaven here–here

  Marxian approach here

  political here–here, here–here, here–here

  and Soviet images of utopia here–here

  see also critical theory; Marxism

  If (periodical) here

  If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler (Calvino) here–here

  imagination

  imperial here, here

  literary here

  sympathetic here, here

  “technological” here

  utopian here

  Imagination (periodical) here

  imperialism here

  and disaster fiction here–here

  ecological imperialism here, here–here

  and emergence/consolidation of science fiction here

  and science fiction here–here

  and technology here–here

  see also colonialism

  The Incredible Shrinking Man (film) here, here

  Indigenous Archeologies: Decolonizing Theory and Practice (Mathis & Weik) here

  indigenous knowledge here–here, here–here

  and oral transmission here–here, here–here

  and resource management here–here, here, here–here

  and scientific literacies here, here–here, here–here, here

  indigenous peoples of the Americas here

  Arawak Indians here, here, here–here

  folktales and legends here, here

  and forced settlement here–here

  see also Ojibwa narratives

  Infinity (periodical) here

  informatics here

  and cyberpunk here

  of domination here–here, here

  information here, here, here–here, here–here

  narratives here–here

  networks here–here

  technologies here, here–here

  see also informatics

  information theory here–here, here

  Inheritance (Lo) here

  intelligence amplification (IA) here–here, here, here–here

  Internet here

  Interzone (periodical) here, here

  In the Days of the Comet (Wells) here

  In the Penal Colony (Kafka) here

  Intolerance (film) here

  Invaders from Mars (Latham) here–here

  invasion narratives here–here, here–here

  biotic invasions here–here, here–here

  body invasion here, here

  see also alien/alienness; colonialism; imperialism

  The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (film) here, here

  Invasion USA (film) here

  invisibility

  of aliens here–here, here

  of Mexican labor here–here, here–here

  political and material invisibility of cyborgs here–here

  of queerness here–here

  The Invisible Man (Wells) here, here

  Involution Ocean (Sterling) here

  In Watermelon Sugar (Brautigan) here

  Irigaray, Luce here

  Iron Heel (London) here

  ISA here

  Iser, Wolfgang here

  Island of Dr. Moreau (film) here

  Island of Dr. Moreau (Wells) here, here, here

  Islands in the Net (Sterling) here

  It Came from Outer Space (film) here

  It Can’t Happen Here (Lewis) here

  I, Vampire (Scott) here

  Jackson, Earl here–here, here–here, here, here

  Jacobi, Carl here

  Jagose, Annamarie here

  Jakobson, Roman here

  James, Edward here

  James, George G. M. here

  James, Henry here, here

  Jameson, Fredric here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here

  Janet, Pierre here, here, here

  Japan/Japanese

  aesthetics here–here, here

  Japanese Americans here–here

  perceived threat and envy here–here, here–here, here

  rise of here–here, here

  Japanese science fiction here, here–here

  Japan Sinks (Komatsu) here

  Jauss, Hans-Robert here, here

  Jealousy (Robbe-Grillet) here

  Jemisin, Nora here–here

  Jenkins, Will F. here

  Jentsch, Ernst Anton here, here–here, here, here, here, here

  Jeter, K. W. here, here, here, here

  “Johnny Mnemonic” (Gibson) here

  Johnston, Basil here

  Jones, Alice Eleanor here, here, here, here, here

  Jones, Gwyneth here, here, here

  Journal Wired here

  Joyce, James here, here

  Jung, Carl here, here

  “Just Like a Woman” (Laslocky) here

  Kadrey, Richard here, here

  Kafka, Franz here, here

  Kaledin, Eugenia here–here, here

  Kang, Laura Hyun Yi here

  Kant, Immanuel here

  Keating, Peter here, here

  Kepler, Johannes here

  Kersh, Gerald here

  Ketterer, David here

  Keynes, John Maynard here

  Kincaid, Paul here, here, here

 
Kindred (Butler) here

  Kinds of Literature (Fowler) here

  King, Katie here

  King Kong (film) here

  King, Martin Luther, Jr. here, here

  Kishin here–here

  Kittler, Friedrich here

  Klein, Hilary here–here

  Klein, Melanie here

  Klopak, Veda here

  Knight, Damon here, here, here

  Knopf, Alfred A. here

  Kobayashi, Yoshio here

  Kolko, Gabriel here

  Komatsu, Sakyô here

  Kornbluth, Cyril M. here

  Korzybski, Alfred here, here

  Koval, James here

  Koyanagi, Jacqueline here

  Krafft-Ebing, Richard von here

  The Kraken Wakes (Wyndham) here

  Krauss, Rosalind here, here

  Krebs, Lisa here

  Kristeva, Julia here

  Kubrick, Stanley here, here

  Kuttner, Henry here

  Kwan, Allen here

  Lacan, Jacques here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Lacklein (Sofoulis) here

  ladies’ magazine fiction here

  Lady into Fox (Garnett) here

  Landon, Brooks here, here

  Lang, Andrew here

  Lang, Fritz here

  language

  in Aleutian Trilogy here, here–here

  animal experiences through human language here

  extraterrestrial languages here, here

  humans’ use of here

  science fictional here–here

  and women of color here–here, here

  see also subjunctivity

  Lanier, Jaron here

  Lanier, Sterling E. here

  Larbalestier, Justine here, here

  Laslocky, Meghan here, here

  Last and First Men (Stapledon) here, here

  The Last Angel of History (documentary) here–here, here

  The Last Puritan (Santayana) here

  Lathe of Heaven (Le Guin) here–here

  Latin American science fiction here

  see also borderlands science fiction

  Laumer, Keith here, here, here

  Lavín, Guillermo here, here, here–here, here, here, here, here, here

  Lawrence, D. H. here, here

  Leary, Timothy here

  Lee, Chang-rae here

  Lefanu, Sarah here

  The Left Hand of Darkness (Le Guin) here, here–here, here, here–here, here

  Legend (Lu) here

  Le Guin, Ursula here, here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here–here, here, here, here, here, here–here

  Leiber, Fritz here, here

  Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm here, here

  Leigh, Stephen, see Farrell, S. L.

  Leinster, Murray here

  Lem, Stanislaw here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here

  Leonardo da Vinci: A Study in Psychosexuality (Freud) here

  Lévi-Strauss, Claude here

  Lewis, C. S. here

  Lewis, David here

  Lewis, Sinclair here

  Leyner, Mark here–here

  Lichenstein, Therese here