Contents

Politics on the Page

• No News Is Good News: What Science Fiction Leaves Out of the Future #1 by Gary Westfahl
  
• War: What Is It Good For? by Lisa Agnew
  
• Space Opera Rules; But By Whom? by Ross Hamilton

Speculative Ideologies

• Reason, Sexuality, and the Self in Libertarian Science Fiction Novels by Greg Beatty
  
• Speculative Fiction & Political Struggle: The 'New Wave' of the 60s & 70sby Jordan Humphreys

Recent Media

• The Future’s Bright? A Review of Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic Science-Fiction by Deborah Walker
  
• Political Allegory: Receptions and Their Implications in V and District 9 by Shaun Duke

Race and Gender Politics

• Engendering Utopia: From Amazons to Androgyny by Ruth Nestvold and Jay Lake
  
• Aliens at the Office Christmas Party: How to Write Subtle Discrimination by Romie Stott
  
• Transracial Writing for the Sincere by Nisi Shawl