JFA Books Received Winter 2019

Dear List Members,

The print titles below are now available for North American redistribution for review in The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts.  We ask for reviews of between 1200 and 1500 words within approximately three months of receipt of the book. Applications for double reviews of related titles or review essays of several related titles are welcome.

If you are interested in one (or more), please contact Jeffrey Weinstock at <[email protected]>.  Please do not reply to the list!  As multiple requests for the same titles are common, please be sure to indicate qualifications.

Sincerely,

Jeffrey Weinstock


JFA books received
Winter 2019



  *   Arthur C. Clarke by Gary Westfahl. https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/45aez6pd9780252041938.html

  *   Faun’s Book-Shelf: C. S. Lewis on Why Myth Matters by Charlie W. Starr. http://www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/2017/the-fauns-bookshelf/

  *   Gears and God: Technocratic Fiction, Faith, and Empire in Mark Twain’s America by Nathaniel Williams. http://www.uapress.ua.edu/product/Gears-and-God,6823.aspx

  *   Gothic Effigy: A Guide to Dark Visibilities by David Annwn Jones. http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526101228/

  *   I Am Legend as American Myth: Race and Masculinity in the Novel and Its Film Adaptations by Amy J. Ransom. https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/i-am-legend-as-american-myth/

  *   Iron Man vs. Captain America and Philosophy: Give Me Liberty or Keep Me Safe, edited by Nicholas Michaud and Jessica Watkins. http://www.opencourtbooks.com/books_n/iron_man.htm

  *   J.G. Ballard by D. Harlan Wilson. https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/47gdg5ke9780252041433.html

  *   Respawn: Gamers, Hackers, and Technogenic Life by Colin Milburn. https://www.dukeupress.edu/respawn

  *   Secular Magic and the Moving Image: Mediated Forms and Modes of Reception by Max Sexton.  https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/secular-magic-and-the-moving-image-9781501320934/

  *   Stephen King’s Contemporary Classics: Reflections on the Modern Master of Horror edited by Philip L. Simpson and Patrick McAleer. https://rowman.com/isbn/9781442244900/stephen-kings-contemporary-classics-reflections-on-the-modern-master-of-horror

  *   The Sound of Things to Come: An Audible History of the Science Fiction Film by Trace Reddell https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-sound-of-things-to-come

  *   Twin Peaks and Philosophy: That’s Damn Fine Philosophy! edited by Richard Greene and Rachel Robison-Greene. http://www.opencourtbooks.com/books_n/twin_peaks.htm

  *   Understanding William Gibson by Gerald Alva Miller, Jr. https://www.sc.edu/uscpress/books/2016/7633.html



Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Ph.D.
NOW OUT: Welcome to Night Vale: Podcasting Between Weather and the Void<https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Approaches-Welcome-Night-Vale/dp/3319930907/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1534937939&sr=8-1&keywords=Jeffrey+Weinstock+night+vale>
The Cambridge Companion to the American Gothic<https://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-Companion-American-Companions-Literature/dp/1107539781/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1514043796&sr=8-1>
The Age of Lovecraft<http://www.amazon.com/The-Age-Lovecraft-Carl-Sederholm/dp/0816699259>

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