<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">James Lin <<a href="mailto:james.lin@ucr.edu">james.lin@ucr.edu</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">June 11, 2010 8:43:05 AM PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:chass-faculty@lists.ucr.edu">chass-faculty@lists.ucr.edu</a>, <a href="mailto:chass-nsfaculty@lists.ucr.edu">chass-nsfaculty@lists.ucr.edu</a>, <a href="mailto:chass-staff@lists.ucr.edu">chass-staff@lists.ucr.edu</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>[Chass-faculty] CFP Special Issue of SF Studies: Science Fiction in/and California</b><br></span></div><br><div>
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<blockquote type="cite" class="cite" cite=""><b>Call for Papers: Special
Issue of <i>Science Fiction Studies<br>
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Science Fiction in/and California<br><br>
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>. <br><br>
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.<br><br>
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"><u>jfalexan@uci.edu</u></a><u></u>>)
and Catherine Liu
(<<a href="mailto:liu@uci.edu"><u>liu@uci.edu</u></a><u></u>>).
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