Sci-Fi

Jack Fennell is a science fiction researcher, author and translator based in Limerick, Ireland. He is the author of the critical study Irish Science Fiction (2014) and the editor of the Irish sci-fi anthology A Brilliant Void (2018).

• CONTENTS: Jack Fennell: Introduction: The Fetish of Origin – José Manuel Correoso-Rodenas: Science Fiction and the Gothic (1770–1912) – Juan L. Pérez-de-Luque: H. P. Lovecraft’s ‘The Shadow Over Innsmouth’ (1936) – Weird Fiction – Val Nolan: Starships and Space Opera (1928–present) – Tom Dillon: New Worlds and Jerry Cornelius (1964–1976) – The New Wave – Sara Martín: Iain M. Banks’s Culture Series (1987–2012) – Aliens – Nathan Emmerich: Isaac Asimov’s Robot Series (1939–1985) and Ted Chiang’s The Lifecycle of Software Objects (2010) – Robots –Matteo Barbagallo: Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s Westworld (2016–present) – Virtual Life – Lars Schmeink: Square Enix’s Deus Ex: Human Revolution (2011) – Posthumanism – Marta María Gutiérrez Rodríguez: Joreid McFate’s The Demon Plague (2004) – Time Travel – Jack Fennell: Alternate Histories – Simon Bacon: Alex Garland’s Ex Machina (2014) – Science Fiction Vampires – Isiah Lavender III: Jordan Peele’s Get Out (2017) and Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther (2018) – Afrofuturism – Amy H. Sturgis: Indigenous Futurisms – Christopher B. Menadue: George Miller’s Mad Max (1979–2015) and Ryan Griffen’s Cleverman (2016–2017) – Australian Science Fiction – Raffaella Baccolini: Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (2017–present) – Women’s Dystopian Science Fiction –Alec Charles: The Thirteenth Doctor, Doctor Who (2017–present) – Gender Roles and Sexism – Thomas Connolly: Disability in Science Fiction – Andrew Milner: Science Fiction and Climate Change – Mark Bould: Science Fiction and the Anthropocene – Chris Pak: Animals in Science Fiction – Jeremy Brett: Science Fiction Archives – Dan Byrne-Smith: Science Fiction Comics – Mariano Martín Rodríguez: Science Fiction Metafiction – Ian Farnell: Alistair McDowall’s X (2016) – Science Fiction Theatre