Studies in the Fantastic [#21]

Studies in the Fantastic is a journal devoted to the speculative, fantastic, and weird in literature and other arts.

The contents of this issue include: “The Speculative Detective Story in Literature and Media: Productive Contradictions of a Hybrid Genre” by Steven Mollmann and Christiana Salah; “The Speculative Detective-Flâneur/Flâneuse: Transgressing Spatial and Social Boundaries in The City and the City and Jessica Jones” by Orin Posner; “’No Ship, Sherlock’: The Realities of Consciousness and the Restoration of Order through Deduction and Diplomacy aboard the Starship Enterprise” by Darcey Lovell; “Doors and Corners, Kid: Breaking and Rebuilding the Detective in The Expanse” by Matthew Loyd Spencer; “Between Reform and Revivalism: Speculative Detective Fiction in Gujarati” by Abhimanyu Acharya; “The Discworld’s City Watch and the Consensus Fantasy Universe: Investigating Fantasy Narratives and Boundaries” by Eugenia Pietralunga Biavati; “Fashioning the Female Detective: Detection and Education as Performance in Gail Carriger’s YA Finishing School Series” by Jessica Shafer Goodfellow; “’Listen to what I say, listen to what I don’t say’: An Interview with Thomas Ha” by Betsy Huang; “A Guided Gallery Tour of Speculative Art: A Review of Icons of the Fantastic” by Steve Asselin; and “The Persistence of the Paranormal in Science and Fiction: A Review of Parascientific Revolutions” by Michele Hanks.