Science Fiction Film and Television is a biannual, peer-reviewed journal published by Liverpool University Press. Edited by Mark Bould (UWE) and Sherryl Vint (Brock University), with an international board of advisory editors, it encourages dialogue among the scholarly and intellectual communities of film studies, sf studies and television studies.

We invite submissions on all areas of sf film and television. We publish articles, book and DVD reviews and review essays, as well as archive entries on theorists (which introduce the work of key and emergent figures in sf studies, television or film studies) and texts (which describe and analyse little-known or unduly neglected films or television series).

We invite submissions in particular for two special issues:

REMAKES, REVISIONS, REBOOTS: Why is the 21st century fascinated by returning to previous sf franchises? Is this nostalgia? Archive fever? Retrofuturism? What economic and cultural forces inform this recent fascination with return and renewal?

BIOPOLITICS: How do biopolitial theories of theorists such as Foucault, Hardt and Negri, Esposito and Agamben inform readings of sf? What can sf contribute to ongoing discussions of biopolitial governance? What can sf visions of posthumanism tell us about life under biopolitical capitalism?

The Science Fiction Research Association executive committee has decided to add a significant bonus to the recently reconfigured Student Paper Award. Before, the winner only received a prize of $100 and a one-year membership in the SFRA. Now, the Student Paper Award winner will receive the aforesaid prizes along with a significant bonus: a letter recommending the revised paper for publication.

The Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) executive committee is pleased to award its first organization grant in the amount of $1000 to AboutSF to support its continued services for the science fiction studies community. AboutSF is an exceptional resource center for science fiction, the fantastic, and education, which is a joint project of the University of Kansas, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), and the SFRA.

Arthur O. Lewis, Jr., the second president of the Science Fiction Research Association (1977-1978) and recipient of the Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service (2000), passed away on July 18, 2009 in State College, Pennsylvania. He was an eminent SF studies and utopian scholar whose professional work and personal efforts significantly expanded those fields within the academy. His obituary may be found here:

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/centredaily/obituary.aspx?n=arthur-o-le...

The SFRA is proud to announce a change to one of its most important awards to more accurately reflect the involvement of a variety of students in the organization. Due to increased undergraduate participation in the SFRA as demonstrated at the 2009 conference in Atlanta, Georgia, the executive committee has decided to open the award for the most outstanding student paper at the annual meeting to both undergraduate and graduate students. Thus, the Graduate Student Paper Award will now be called the Student Paper Award to reflect this inclusiveness.

The Executive Board of the Science Fiction Research Association invites travel grant proposals to attend and present at the annual conference of Science Fiction Research Association.

The application has been attached as both a .doc and .pdf file.

The Executive Board of the Science Fiction Research Association invites research proposals to significant issues and questions in science fiction studies.

The application has been attached as both a .doc and .pdf file.