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. Read for free here: fafnir.journal.fi/article/view...

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. fafnir.journal.fi/article/view...

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. Read for free here: fafnir.journal.fi/article/view...

🎉✨ 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!

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. fafnir.journal.fi/article/view...

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. fafnir.journal.fi/article/view...

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. fafnir.journal.fi/article/view...

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 Read it for free here: fafnir.journal.fi/article/view...

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. Read it for free here: fafnir.journal.fi/article/view...

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. Read it here: fafnir.journal.fi/article/view...

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. Read for free here: fafnir.journal.fi/article/view...

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. Read for free here: fafnir.journal.fi/article/view...

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. fafnir.journal.fi/article/view...

In this lectio praecursoria, Esko Suoranta examines how a technonaturalist mode of speculative fiction affords insight into the complex realities of contemporary capitalism. Read for free here: fafnir.journal.fi/article/view...

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. fafnir.journal.fi/article/view...

Since Fafnir has moved to fafnir.journal.fi, we now accept submissions only through the online portal. Our old email address is now defunct. For general inquiries, you may contact us via our new email address: editorsinchief[at]finfar[dot]org

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. fafnir.journal.fi/article/view...

📣 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: fafnir.journal.fi/about/submis... #sciencefiction #SFF

✨ 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. Read here: journal.finfar.org/articles/wha...

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. fafnir.journal.fi/article/view...

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. Read for free here: fafnir.journal.fi/article/view...

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. Read the article for free here: fafnir.journal.fi/article/view...

✨ 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. Read it for free here: journal.finfar.org/articles/lar...

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. ⬇️ fafnir.journal.fi/article/view...

📢 Fafnir's new issue (1-2/2024) is here to kick off the year with an exciting collection of content!! You can access it for free here: fafnir.journal.fi/issue/view/1... Here’s to a year filled with inspiring reads! Happy New Year and happy reading from all of us at Fafnir!

📣 Call for Reviews: Non-Fiction Books 📣 If a book interests you, contact our reviews editor, Jari Käkelä, via email: reviews[at]finfar.org. If you haven’t worked with Jari before, please include a brief introduction of your qualifications and explain why you’d like to review the book.

📣 Call for Reviews: Non-Fiction Books 📣 If a book interests you, contact our reviews editor, Jari Käkelä, via email: reviews[at]finfar.org. If you haven’t worked with Jari before, please include a brief introduction of your qualifications and explain why you’d like to review the book.

As we are working on bringing our exciting next issue to you in January 2025, we invite you to explore our archive. You can read all of our issues published since 2014 on our website for free! 🐉 journal.finfar.org/journal/arch...

Hi everyone! Here is a little introduction to our journal. Fafnir is a peer-reviewed, open-access academic journal published online twice a year. We publish texts ranging from peer-reviewed research articles to short overviews and book reviews in the field of science fiction and fantasy research.