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  • Contributors

Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr. is a professor of English at DePauw University, coeditor of Science Fiction Studies, and managing editor of Humanimalia. He is the author of The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction (2011), and coeditor of Robot Ghost and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime (2007) and The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010).

Doug Davis is an associate professor of English at Gordon State College in Barnesville, Georgia, where he teaches literature and creative writing. He is currently the editor of the Science Fiction Research Association’s SFRA Review. He has published articles on subjects ranging from impact-extinction theory, political science fiction, and cold war culture to authors Bobbie Ann Mason, Tim O’Brien, and Flannery O’Connor. He is currently working on a book titled Technological Distances: Reading Flannery O’Connor in the Future.

Jason W. Ellis is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the vice president of the Science Fiction Research Association. He is coeditor of The Postnational Fantasy: Postcolonialism, Cosmopolitics and Science Fiction (2011). His current research focuses on the emergence of science fiction as an evolutionary byproduct of the coevolution of humanity with technology. [End Page 205]

Kathleen Ann Goonan is a Professor of the Practice at Georgia Institute of Technology, where she teaches creative writing and literature. She has been in the vanguard of literary science fiction since publication in 1994 of her novel Queen City Jazz. Her novels have been finalists for the Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke, and BSFA Awards. In War Times won the Campbell award for best Science Fiction Novel of 2007 and was the American Library Association’s Best Genre Novel of 2007. Her new novel, This Shared Dream, explores themes first presented in In War Times: the nature of memory, the promise of enhanced adult neuroplasticity, universal preschool education and literacy, and how enhanced understanding of how the human brain works might lead to a world without war.

De Witt Douglas Kilgore is an associate professor of English at Indiana University. He is the author of Astrofuturism: Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space (2003). His recent publications include a special issue of Science Fiction Studies on Octavia E. Butler, coedited with Ranu Samantrai. He is currently working on a book examining the ways in which SETI science has gained cultural credibility through fiction and popular science writing.

Kenneth J. Knoespel is the McEver Professor of Engineering and the Liberal Arts at Georgia Institute of Technology and director of the Ivan Allen Institute for Advanced Studies. He has appointments in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication and the School of History, Technology, and Society, and the College of Architecture. His recent publications include “Linnaeus and the Siberian Expeditions: Translating Political Empire into a Kingdom of Knowledge,” in Languages of Science in the Eighteenth Century (2011); and “La Nostalgie à l’époque de la reproductibilté technologique: La Mnémosyne d’Aby Warburg et le Passagen-Werk de Walter Benjamin,” in Speilraum: W. Benjamin et l’Architecture (2011).

Robert Markley is the W. D. and Sara E. Trowbridge Professor of English at the University of Illinois and editor of the interdisciplinary journal The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation. He has written more than eighty articles in eighteenth-century studies, science studies, and digital media, and his books include Two-Edg’d Weapons: Style and Ideology in the Comedies of Etherege, Wycherley, and Congreve (1988), Crises of Representation in Newtonian England, 1660–1740 (1993), Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination (2005), The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600–1730 (2006), and the edited volume Virtual Realities and Their Discontents (1996). He is currently completing a book on climate [End Page 206] and culture during the Little Ice Age (ca.1450–1800), and another on the contemporary science-fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson.

Colin Milburn holds the Gary Snyder Chair in Science and the Humanities at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Nanovision: Engineering the Future (2008), as well as many articles and book chapters about the cultural entanglements of literature, science, and media technologies. His book about video games and the...

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