Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts - 36.2

CONTENTS

Creative Think Piece: Frank Belknap Long Letters, Written to Michael E. Ambrose, 1976-1979

Katherine Kerestman

Afro-cosmicism: On the Craft of Seizing Speculative Reparations

Chris Campbell, Hartwell Award Finalist

Anarres: Where Women Hold Up Half the Sky

Natalie Fourmyle, Hartwell Award Finalist

Magneto's Power to Survive the Holocaust: Examining the Fantastic Relationship Between Character and Setting in Greg Pak's X-Men: Magneto Testament

Alexander Banks, Hartwell Award Finalist

Parasitism, Coexistence, and Colonialism in Animorphs

Miranda Miller, Hartwell Award Winner

Is Dracula Anti-Semitic?

Steven Brehe

Mapping Magic in Fantasy Novels: Magic Systems and Thematic Undercurrents in Mark Lawrence's Book of the Ancestor

Finley Dunn

Economics in Frank Herber's Dune and its Use as a Storytelling Tool

Amelia Kerns

Historical Fantasy and History

Jared van Duinen

Faith, Dogma and Vision in Mr. Pye: A Quest for Synthesis

Ruchira Mandal

"I'm Dead, I'm Dead, It's Good to Be Dead!" The Uncanny Epiphanies of Ray Bradbury's "Jack-in-the-Box" and H. P. Lovecraft's "The Outsider"

Misty L. Jameson

Creative Think Piece: What One Can Become on the Verge of Global Unity

Tracy Ross

REVIEWS

Maia Gil'Ad?s Doom Patterns: Latinx Speculations and the Aesthetics of Violence

Rev. by Alexander Banks

Charles L. Crow's California Gothic: The Dark Side of the Dream

Rev. by Karin Beeler

Julie Wosk's Artificial Women: Sex Dolls, Robot Caregivers, and More Facsimile Females

Rev. by Ashley Perry