Online Supplement of World Literature Today Available

The full contents of the World Literature Today special SF issue supplement have now been posted online:

• Call for papers: 2011 Eaton SF Conference
• J. Madison Davis’ essay, Two Ways of Describing the Elephant: Science Fiction and the Mystery
• Paul Di Filippo’s reviews, The Best Speculative Fiction of 2009
• James Gunn’s essay, Science Fiction around the World
• James Gunn’s online reference to A Basic Science Fiction Library
• Elizabeth Anne Hull’s essay, The Challenge Remains: Doctorow’s Little Brother Revisited
• Kij Johnson’s story, 26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss
• Paul Kincaid’s essay, Against a Definition of Science Fiction
• Daniel Powell’s essay, After the End of the Whole Mess: Isolation and Confinement in American Narratives of the Apocalypse
• The complete text of Pamela Sargent’s story, The True Darkness, excerpted in the print edition
• Sentinels: In Honor of Arthur C. Clarke
• Gulammohammed Sheikh: Two Poems
• The complete text of Lavie Tidhar’s story, Wrong Number, excerpted in the print edition
• Lavie Tidhar’s essay, The Aliens Won: Around the World and Back Again
• Rob Vollmar’s podcast interview with Cory Doctorow
• Wu Yan with Janice Bogstad & Wang Pengfei: Science Fiction in China
• Alexandar Žiljak’s essay, Science Fiction in Croatia

It is particularly interesting to compare the Tidhar article with Gunn’s, for their different approaches. Also of interest from an international SF perspective are the articles on Chinese and Croatian SF.

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