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World
Literature Today has published a special
science fiction issue for May/June
2010, helping introduce the literary reader to our genre. Now in its ninth decade of publication,
WLT has been
recognized by the Nobel Prize committee as one of the "best edited and most
informative literary publications" in the world, and was recently called "an
excellent source of writings from around the globe by authors who write as if
their lives depend on it" (Utne Reader).
WLT has received a
dozen national publishing awards in the past ten years.
Daniel Simon, WLT's editor-in-Chief, writes this in his introduction:
SF in
WLT? In this first-ever special section devoted to
speculative fiction in our pages, readers will discover that the
boundaries of genre, space, language, and geography falsify what
they confine. In our January 2009 issue, I posed the question,
"What in the world is ‘world’ literature?" In the current issue,
it matters less how we define the world and more how we see
through it, or around it, and into the realm of other
possibilities.
Click here to check it out!
Contents
Call for papers: 2011 Eaton SF Conference
J. Madison Davis' essay, Two Ways of Describing the Elephant: Science Fiction and the Mystery
Paul Di Filippo's reviews, The Best Speculative Fiction of 2009
James Gunn's essay, Science Fiction around the World
James Gunn's online reference to A Basic Science Fiction Library
Elizabeth Anne Hull's essay, The Challenge
Remains: Doctorow's Little Brother Revisited
Kij Johnson's story, 26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss
Paul Kincaid's essay, Against a Definition of Science Fiction
Daniel Powell's essay, After the End of the Whole Mess: Isolation and Confinement in American Narratives of the Apocalypse
The complete text of Pamela Sargent's story, The True Darkness, excerpted in the print edition
Sentinels: In Honor of Arthur C. Clarke
Gulammohammed Sheikh: Two Poems
The complete text of Lavie Tidhar's story, Wrong Number, excerpted in the print edition
Lavie Tidhar's essay, The Aliens Won: Around the World and Back Again
Rob Vollmar's podcast interview with Cory Doctorow
Wu Yan with Janice Bogstad & Wang Pengfei: Science Fiction in China
Alexandar Žiljak's essay, Science Fiction in Croatia
Print issue main contents page
Stormtrooper UFO conspiracy scene:
print issue contents page art
Print issue cover art by Roger Johnston
Print issue section art by Roger Johnston
Daniel Simon's Editor's Note
By guest editor Christopher McKitterick:
Special section introduction, The Literature of Change
Online reference to
Don't-Miss Speculative Fiction Events
Online reference to Science Fiction on the Web
Online reference to
Teaching and Scholarly Resources on the Web
List of contributors for this special issue
WLT Homepage
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