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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>Call
for Papers: Special Issue of <i>Science Fiction Studies</i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
class=apple-style-span><b>Science Fiction in/and California</b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
class=apple-tab-span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span
style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>This special issue of <i>Science
Fiction Studies</i> invites critical and scholarly articles dealing with
California as a science fiction space, theme, or concept. The West Coast of the
US, and California in particular, has long been a source of inspiration for the
sf imagination: the state’s history offers a rich repository of utopian
schemes, dystopian realities, collectivist experiments, and commercial and
ecological catastrophes. During the Cold War and after, California has
represented the vanguard of technoscientific progress, free-market ideology, lifestyle
libertarianism, and countercultural experimentation. California shares the
seismic instabilities of the Pacific Rim and is integrated into the cultural
and economic exchanges facilitated and regulated by global capital throughout
the region. California exists in the larger cultural imagination as both a
much-dreamed-of sphere of spiritual discovery and multicultural hybridity as
well as a nightmarish realm of ecological disaster and race war. The physical
and ideological contrast between Northern and Southern California has inspired
writers and thinkers, inside and outside the genre, for generations, from
Thomas Pynchon’s <i>The Crying of Lot 49</i> to William
Gibson’s <i>Virtual Light</i>. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
class=apple-tab-span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span
style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>In this issue, we hope to promote
dialogues between theorists of the new urban geography, such as Mike Davis and
David Harvey, and sf writers and critics. Philip K. Dick, Kim Stanley Robinson,
Neal Stephenson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Silverberg, Octavia E. Butler, and
William Gibson have all depicted California in their work, whether as a site of
utopian inspiration or as a dystopic realm where history and authenticity are
erased and natural beauty is threatened by economic and ecological
mismanagement. California has offered sf writers a fruitful space where
forward-thinking blueprints—sociopolitical and sexual utopias,
technocultural avant-gardes, impulses towards collective and personal
reinvention—are projected onto a beautiful and fragile landscape. We
enourage essays that address these concerns or any others related to how
California has figured within sf discourse.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
class=apple-tab-span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span
style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Abstracts of 500 words should be
submitted by 1 February 2011. Full drafts of essays will be required by 1 May
2011. Send abstracts to Jonathan Alexander (<<a
href="mailto:jfalexan@uci.edu">jfalexan@uci.edu</a>>) and Catherine Liu
(<<a href="mailto:liu@uci.edu">liu@uci.edu</a>>). </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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