Speculative Fiction Studies

Some resources that may be especially of interest to academics studying speculative fiction. Feel free to suggest more.

Databases, Reading Lists, Miscellaneous:

• Science Fiction Research Association (membership provides access to some key journals and discounts on others)
• London Science Fiction Research Community – see also their great link list
• Texas A&M SFF Research Database
• Applied Speculation resource list (from Vector; some emphasis on futurism)
• Decolonising Utopia resource list
• Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
• London Chinese Science Fiction Group
• African Science Fiction Association
• Indian Association for Science Fiction Studies
• Recent blog post from Jim Clarke surveying publishers of SFF criticism
• Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction
• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Sean Guynes often has interesting things to say about academic publishing.

Presses / Series:

There are many many more of course, but …

• Gylphi SF Storyworlds
• Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies
• Punctum
• Lever
• Verso
• McFarland Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
• Luna: Academia Lunare
• University of Illinois Modern Masters of SF
• Peter Lang: Ralahine Utopian Studies
• University of Wales
• Ohio State UP: New Suns
• Palgrave SFF: A new canon
• Wesleyan University Press
• Aqueduct Press

See this blog post by Jim Clarke for more suggestions.

Journals:

• SFRA Review
• Science Fiction Studies
• Extrapolation
• Foundation
• Utopian Studies
• MOSF Journal of Science Fiction
• Fantastika Journal
• Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
• Fafnir
• Hélice
• Science Fiction Film and Television Journal
• Femspec
• Paradoxa
• BFS Journal
• Strange Horizons
• Ancillary Review of Books
• Big Echo
• And Vector of course

SF Studies adjacent:

• Critical Algorithm Studies, an extensive reading list
• Technovelgy – an innovation and prediction oriented SF database