Fafnir, the Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research, has published its first issue. The PDF isn’t available yet,but you can read all of the articles online. This issues includes a number of papers originally presented at the academic conference at last year’s Finncon. There’s also an essay detailing the history of research into SF&F in Finland by Liisa Rantalaiho. You can read that issue here. The full ToC is as follows:
- Editorial
- Opposing Forces and Ethical Judgments in Samuel Delany’s Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand (Päivi Väätänen)
- Agents or Pawns? Power Relations in William Gibson’s Bigend Trilogy (Esko Suoranta)
- What is it that Fanfiction Opposes? The Shared and Communal Features of Firefly/Serenity Fanfiction (Hanna-Riikka Roine)
- Good and Evil in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium: Concerning Dichotomy between Visible and Invisible (Jyrki Korpua)
- Scholars Opposing Forces: Report on FINFAR 2013 Meeting (Katja Kontturi)
- FINFAR: A Gift from Fandom to Academia (Liisa Rantalaiho)
- Peeking into the Neighbouring Grove: Speculative Fiction in the Work of Mainstream Scholars (Merja Polvinen)
- Call for Papers for the 3/2014 issue of Fafnir