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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research
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2020 World Fantasy Award-winning, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, and open-access journal published by The Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research. ISSN: 2342-2009.
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Noah Slowik reviews Ross Clare’s Ancient Greece and Rome in Modern Science Fiction: Amazing Antiquity @livunipress.bsky.social, which examines the legacy of classical thought in popular culture by analyzing the use of stories & figures from antiquity in modern SF.

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August 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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In “The Cultural Work of Fantasy in the Anthropocene" Marek Oziewicz celebrates the potential of fantasy to provide new models & patterns of thinking to counter the ecocidal status quo and underlines the genre's importance in educating citizens.

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August 7, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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🎉✨ NEW ISSUE OUT!! 🎉✨

☀️ Fafnir's issue 1/2025 welcomes midsummer with a blazing selection of cutting-edge speculative fiction research, essays, book reviews, and a prefatory by Marek Oziewicz.

Check out the full issue for free here!: fafnir.journal.fi

Happy reading!
July 31, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Michael Pitts reviews Stephen C. Tobin’s (@kiptobin.bsky.social) Vision, Technology, and Subjectivity in Mexican Cyberpunk Literature, which illuminates the centrality and significance of the screen in 1990s–2010s Mexican cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk fiction.

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July 29, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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C. Palmer-Patel reviews Gendered Defenders: Marvel’s Heroines in Transmedia Spaces (eds. Bryan J. Carr & Meta G. Carstarphen) @ohiostatepress.bsky.social, a volume exploring the publication histories, character arcs & media battles of Marvel’s famous female heroes.

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July 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Aino-Kaisa Koistinen reviews Pablo Gómez's Science Fiction Cinema in the 21st Century: Transnational Futures, Cosmopolitan Concerns @routledgebooks.bsky.social, which offers a timely analysis of sf cinema's significance for interrogating transnational concerns.

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July 2, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Carol Franko reviews Tolkien, Enchantment, and Loss: Steps on the Developmental Journey, which points to a coupling of enchantment and loss that shapes Tolkien’s art. @ksupress.bsky.social

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May 21, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Sabina Fazli reviews Mike Ashley’s The Rise of the Cyberzines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1991 to 2020 @livunipress.bsky.social, an encyclopedic history of science fiction periodicals.

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May 12, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Ananya Buragohain and Lakshminath Kagyung review The Evolution of African Fantasy and Science Fiction @lunapress.bsky.social , ed. by Francesca T. Barbini - a collection of five essays tracing the emergence and development of African SFF.

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April 30, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Jeremy Brett @jbarchivist.bsky.social reviews Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction @mitpress.bsky.social, which highlights the imaginative power of speculative fiction to reshape how we relate to the world.

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April 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Karl Bell @karlbell.bsky.social reviews Space(s) of the Fantastic – A 21st Century Manifesto, edited by David Punter & C. Bruna Mancini, which examines the various ways in which literary geography can be used to interpret fantastic literature.

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April 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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In her mixed-media conference report, Fafnir’s former Editor-in-Chief, Essi Varis, relays the highlights of SFRA 2024. Varis weaves her observations from the opening speech, keynotes, panels, and a multimedia performance into a tapestry of insights on imagination.

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March 31, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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In this lectio praecursoria, Esko Suoranta examines how a technonaturalist mode of speculative fiction affords insight into the complex realities of contemporary capitalism.

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March 25, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Evgenia Amey and Garrett “Wereyoi” Moore's "Interview with Nicolas Lietzau" explores environmental worldbuilding in video games and novels and dives into the imaginative process from the perspective of a multimedia creator.

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March 17, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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In his essay, Jyrki Korpua draws thought-provoking connections between the storytelling practices of Tolkien and Barks, two authors beloved by Finnish audiences. Korpua presented this essay as his Guest of Honour speech, which capped Finncon 2024’s academic track.

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March 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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📣 CfP: Fafnir invites authors to submit papers for issue 2/2025!

Research into any aspect of science fiction, fantasy, and other speculative genres is welcome.

Deadline: 30 June 2025

Submissions should be made through the online portal:
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March 6, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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✨ Throwback to the prefatory of Issue 1/2023 in which Joy Sanchez-Taylor @jsanchez-taylor.bsky.social demonstrates how racial and/or ethnic self-consciousness adds layers of estrangement to non-Eurocentric works of speculative fiction.

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February 24, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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In “Ice and Ecotrauma in Isaac Asimov’s ‘The Martian Way,’” Faeze Rezaii mobilizes the concept of “ecotrauma,” which she defines as the entangled suffering of the environment and humans, to argue for the ethical mattering of inorganic matter, such as water.

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February 21, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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In “SF Estrangement in Literary Translation: Translation of Neologies in the Finnish Version of Dune,” Suvi Korpi demonstrates how translation strategies help preserve the estrangement that invented words may induce in translated works of sf.

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February 18, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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In "Ant Similes in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings–an Analysis of Literary Technologies," Juha-Pekka Alarauhio examines Tolkien's innovative use of epic simile & repurposing of traditional storytelling devices.

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February 10, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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✨ Throwback to the prefatory of Issue 2/2023 by Paweł Frelik @nomad93.bsky.social, which asks us to consider the sheer breadth of science fictional works, well beyond the Western traditions and longer narrative forms.

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February 7, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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In the prefatory to our latest issue, Susan Mandala follows the threads of speculative fiction woven through her life and reflects on how a genre of imagination nevertheless deeply entwines with the reality we inhabit. ⬇️

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February 3, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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