EXTRAPOLATION
Extrapolation is an international, peer-reviewed journal which publishes articles and book reviews on science fiction and fantasy texts, broadly conceived. Beginning with the Fall 2007 issue, the journal will be edited by:
Javier A. Martinez, University of Texas—Brownsville, Executive Editor (javier.a.martinez@utb.edu)
Andrew M. Butler, Canterbury Christ Church University (andrewmbutler42@googlemail.com)
Michael Levy, University of Wisconsin—Stout (levym@uwstout.edu)
Sherryl Vint, Brock University (sherryl.vint@gmail.com)
Patricia Melzer, Temple University, Book Review Editor (pmelzer@temple.edu)
We invite papers on all areas of speculative culture, including print, film, television, comic books and video games, and we particularly encourage papers which consider popular texts within their larger cultural context. We welcome papers from a wide variety of critical approaches including but not limited to literary criticism, utopian studies, genre criticism, feminist theory, critical race studies, queer theory, and postcolonial theory.
Extrapolation promotes innovative work which considers the place of speculative texts in contemporary culture. We are interested in promoting dialogue among scholars working within a number of traditions and in encouraging the serious study of popular culture.
We welcome submissions on all areas of science fiction and fantasy, and are particularly interested in the following areas of study:
° Racial constructions in speculative genres
° Children’s and YA sf and fantasy
° Sexualities
° Fantastic motifs in mainstream texts
° Gender and speculative texts
° History of sf and fantasy
° New weird fiction
° Remakes, rewriting and retrofitting
° Pulp sf and fantasy
° The body in speculative texts
° Posthumanism
° Political sf and fantasy
° Non-Western speculative traditions
° Technoculture
Essays should be approximately 4000-9000 words, written according to MLA standards and include a 100 word abstract. Neither embedded footnotes nor generated footnotes that some software systems make available should be used. Electronic submissions in MS Word are encouraged. Submissions should be sent to:
Javier A. Martinez
Department of English
University of Texas at Brownsville
80 Fort Brown
Brownsville, TX 78520
If you are interested in reviewing a book for Extrapolation or if you have published a book you would like reviewed by Extrapolation, please contact:
Patricia Melzer
Director, Women's Studies Program
Temple University
816 Anderson Hall
1114 West Berks Street
Philadelphia, PA 1912