August 10, 2008
IAFA Directories for Sale
Extra IAFA directories are available for purchase. They are $5.00 (plus postage)in American funds. Checks or money orders made out to "IAFA" can be mailed to:
Judy Collins McCormick
1504 Cochran Road
Lexington, KY 40502-2321
If you have any questions, please contact Judy Collins McCormick at
jarcm@insightbb.com.
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April 01, 2007
Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts Masthead Changes
The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts (JFA) is pleased to announce recent changes to its editorial masthead. After many years of devoted service, W. A. Senior has passed the editorial torch to Brian Attebery who has now officially taken over as the new JFA Editor. There have also been changes to the Associate Editors roster, which now consists of: Bryan Dietrich, Graham J. Murphy, Donald Palumbo, Joe Sutliff Sanders, Kelly Searsmith, and Maureen Kincaid Speller. Reviews Editors are Jeffrey Weinstock and Dale Knickerbocker and Editorial Assistants Monty Vierra and Kristi N. Austin. Brian, the Editorial Staff, and the Editorial Board look forward to the challenges ahead as they lead JFA into a new phase of scholarly work on the fantastic.
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August 19, 2006
Science Fiction Television: An Essential Reader
Jay Telotte would like to announce a call to the IAFA membership for contributions to a forthcoming volume, Science Fiction Television: An Essential Reader, to be published by University of Kentucky Press as part of its new Essential Readers series. This volume will provide an historical overview of science fiction television, a selection of essays on backgrounds and sources for science fiction series, a section on narrative styles, a section on key themes/concerns, a large section of essays devoted to key series, a discussion of the future direction of SF in television, and a “series-ography” of major science fiction series.
At present he is still looking for a few contributions in the following areas: 1) the literary background/contribution to SF television, 2) narrative styles/approaches, 3) central themes/concerns/issues, and 4) discussions of a few key series, most notably Star Trek, Twilight Zone, and perhaps X-Files.
Completed essays should be 15-18 pp. in length, done in MLA style, and they will be due by Jan. 15, 2007. Those interested should contact me for additional details and to discuss their possible participation in this project. Use the following e-mail address: jay.telotte AT lcc.gatech.edu.
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September 06, 2004
The Utopian Fantastic
The Utopian Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Twentieth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy) is now available from Greenwood Press. Edited by Martha Bartter, it contains contributions from Roger Schlobin, Donald Morse, Jeanne Beckwith, Robin Anne Reid, Kelly Searsmith, and others. The ISBN: 0-313-31635-X.
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September 05, 2004
The Postmodern Fantastic
Martin Horstkotte, who recently completed his PhD, announces that his dissertation was published in August 2004 by Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, which is located in Trier, Germany. The title is The Postmodern Fantastic in Contemporary British Fiction, it is about 224pp., the ISBN is 3-88476-679-1 and the price is a moderate Euro 24,50 which amounts to approximately $29.60.
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Classic & Iconoclastic Alternate History
Edgar L. Chapman announces the publication of CLASSIC AND ICONOCLASTIC ALTERNATE HISTORY SCIENCE FICTION edited by Edgar L.Chapman and Carl B. Yoke, published by Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, NY; the book came out late in 2003, and contains 14 essays, including two by Edgar, one by Carl Yoke, and essays by Tom Shippey, Martha Bartter, Joe Sanders, William Hardesty, Robert Geary, Karen Hellekson, Steven Kagle, Darren Harris-Fain, Howard Canaan, Olena Saciuk, and Claire-Antoinette Lindenlaub. Treated in the essays are alternate history novels and tales from the time of Chesterton and Murray Leinster to the late 20th century, and including discussions of Ward Moore, Philip K. Dick, Kingsley Amis, Joanna Russ, Robert Heinlein, Robert Silverberg and others. The ISBN # is 0-7734-6799-8.
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Fantastic Literature
David Sandner wants to announce to all IAFA members the publication of a collection that he edited that may be of interest to the IAFA membership. Fantastic Literature: A Critical Reader (Praeger, 2004) is now available from Greenwood Press (ISBN: 0-275-98053-7). Writers and critics from the early history of critical scholarship on the fantastic to some of our fellow members of the IAFA are included. Check it out!
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