The first issue of Foundation, the leading science-fiction journal, to be edited by Dr Paul March-Russell from the Department of Comparative Literature has just been published.
The issue is number 116 of the long-running journal and begins with an editorial from Paul. ‘And so Matt Smith has regenerated into Peter Capaldi. Likewise, Graham Sleight [the previous editor] has metamorphosed into me’, he explains, using a Doctor Who analogy to describe taking over the role.
The issue presents a tribute to the seminal science-fiction author Iain Banks, who sadly passed away last year. The contents include:
- Robert Duggan, ‘Inside the Whale and Outside Context Problems’
- Paul Kincaid, ‘Far Too Strange: The Early Fiction of Iain Banks’
- Joe Norman, ‘”Books of Truth”: Iain M. Banks – Atheist, Secularist, Humanist’
- Andrew J. Wilson, ‘Lightly Seared on the Reality Grill: Conversations with Iain Menzies Banks’.
Also included are a number of review articles and plenty of book reviews.
The journal is published by the Science Fiction Foundation. For more details about the publication, please see the journal’s homepage here:
www.sf-foundation.org/publications/foundation
An online interview with Paul about the journal can be viewed here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nVPOxOZfek