© Franco Brambilla, “Le Argentee Teste D’Uovo” by Fritz Leiber, for Urania Collezione 137 (2014)

Recommended articles and essays available online (alphabetically sorted by author’s last name):
-Anne Goodyear (Bowdoin Art Museum director), “On the moon and art”
-Carl Abbott, “Community in Cities of the Future”
-Margaret Atwood, “Are Humans Necessary?”
-Lewis Beale, “William Gibson: We Are All Science Fiction Writers Now”
-Andy Beckett, “Accelerationism: How a Fringe Philosophy Predicted the Future We Live In”
-Aliette de Bodard, “A Few Disjointed Thoughts On Other Cultures and Diversity in SFF”
–Tom Cassauwers, “What Our Science Fiction Says About Us”
-Ruth La Ferla, “Afrofuturism, the Next Generation”
-Jori Finkel, “For Latin Artists in Sci-Fi Show, Everyone’s an Alien”
-Adam Frank, “Yes, There Have Been Aliens”
-Andrew Fraknoi, “SF Stories with Good Astronomy & Physics” (pdf list)
-Michelle Goldberg, “The Darkness Where the Future Should Be”
-Jayson Greene, “Why is Our SF So Glum About A.I.?”
-Lev Grossman, “2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal”
-Ursula Le Guin, “The Golden Age”
-Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto”
-Bill Joy, “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us”
-Jill Lepore, “Elon Musk Is Building a Sci-Fi World, and the Rest of Us Are Trapped in It”
-B.D. McClay, “Joanna Russ, the Science-Fiction Writer Who Said No”
-China Miéville, “Forward Thinking”
-New York Times editors, “What Will the World Look Like in 2030?”
-Annalee Newitz, A Better Internet Is Waiting for Us
-NPR, Body Hacking Movements Rises Ahead of Moral Answers
-Dennis Overbye, “How Possibilities of Life Elsewhere Might Alter Held Notions of Faith”
-Jeff Ryman, “100 African Writers of SFF”
-Arielle Saiber, “Flying Saucers Would Never Land in Lucca: The Fiction of Italian SF” (2011)
-Leah Schnelbach, “How German Theology and Russian Mysticism Shape Our View of Outer Space”
-Miles Schneiderman, “Inside Science Fiction’s Compassionate Revolution”
-Judith Shulevitz, “Why do we need the liberal arts? Because it gives us sci-fi”
-Vandana Singh, “Alternate Visions: Some Musings on Diversity in SF”
-Tim Urban, “The Fermi Paradox”
-Fran Wilde, Please, Stop Printing Unicorns (Op-ed from the Future)
-Grace Dillon and Pedro Neves Marques, “A Conversation about Indigenous Futurisms” (2021)
-Steven James, “Artificials Should Be Allowed to Worship” (2019/Op-ed from the Future)
-Willi Lempert, “Navajos on Mars: Native Sci-Fi Film Futures” (2015/2019)
-Laura Miller, “The Cosmic Menagerie” (2012)
-Nnedi Okorafor, “African Science Fiction is Still Alien” (2011)
-Isaac Asimov, “Easy to See the Future”  (1981)
-Andrea Bell, “Science Fiction in Latin America: Reawakenings” (1999)
-Arthur Clarke, “Hazards of Prophecy” (1972)
-Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, “Science Fiction and the Thaw” (2004)
-Samuel Delany, “About 5,750 words” (1968)
-Jane Donawerth, “Body Parts: Twentieth-Century Science Fiction Short Stories by Women” (2004)
-James Gunn, “The Worldview of Science Fiction” (1995)
-Veronica Hollinger, “Introduction: Women in Science Fiction and Other Hopeful Monsters” (1990)
-Xia Jia, “What Makes Chinese Science Fiction Chinese?” (2016)
-James Kelly, “Who Owns Cyberpunk?” (2012)
-Joshua La Bare, “The Future: ‘Wrapped… in That Mysterious Japanese Way” (2000)
-Gavriel Rosenfeld, “Why Do We Ask ‘What If?’ Reflections on the Function of Alternate History” (2002)
-Arielle Saiber, “Flying Saucers Would Never Land in Lucca: The Fiction of Italian Science Fiction” (2011)
-Sherryl Vint, “Animal Alterity: Science Fiction and Human-Animal Studies” (2010)
-Michael White, “Ellison’s Harlequin: Irrational moral Action in Static Time” (1977)
-Gary Wolfe, “Coming to Terms” (2005)
-Yan Wu, “‘Great Wall Planet’: Introducing Chinese Science Fiction” (2013)

Academic journals available to order through ILL if not in CBB (alphabetically sorted):
Alambique (in Spanish and Portuguese)
Extrapolation – (ProQuest) (Liverpool University Press)
Helíce (in Spanish)
Fanfir (Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research)
Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction – (ProQuest)
Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
Science Fiction Studies – (JStor)
Science Fiction Film and Television from Project Muse (Bowdoin-provided access) general access here
SFRA Review

Some academic presses publishing SF studies:
Liverpool University Press
University of Wales Press (PDF)
Wesleyan University Press

Questions, suggestions, and recommendations:
These are welcome and may be sent to Arielle Saiber: [email protected]

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