Or, alternatively, choose one of the texts that you remember reading and reread it with an eye toward interrogating the nostalgia or memories you have of your previous experience with the text.įor anyone: Choose a text not on this list, something more obscure: something you believe was ahead of its time or otherwise worthy of our collective attention. Give us the benefit of your experience living through times that have changed in terms of literary elements such as plot, style, characterization, etc., as well as in terms of society and politics. If you are a graduate student, or even an undergraduate student, this could be a great opportunity for a first publication.įor more-established scholars, critics or fans: Choose one of the texts you have not read and write a paper on it following the above instructions. This could take any number of formats, including but not limited to a personal memoir, an academic examination, an examination in light of previous reviews or academic work on the text. We suggest, but do not demand, one of the following approaches:įor younger scholars, critics or fans: Choose one of the listed texts, read it carefully, and write a paper detailing your experience of this work of “classic” SF. You are free to choose a novel that wasn’t nominated, or a shorter work, or film, television, comics, etc., or a work from 1970 or 1972, if that is where your interests lie. While we view as questionable and often problematic the concept of a “canon,” and note that the groups of fans and critics that nominated and awarded the following texts were demographically unrepresentative by the standards of 2021 (as were their authors), these works were, nevertheless, considered worthy of attention and esteem at the time, though most have fallen into comparative obscurity by now.
As a jumping-off point, we suggest consideration of one or more of the Hugo and Nebula nominees for Best Novel, listed here: The SFRA Review requests papers centering on texts, broadly defined, that were considered influential fifty years ago in 1971. Call for Papers: Interrogating Our History
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