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2024

“Posthumanism” and “Rosewater.” This is Not a Science Fiction Textbook. Ed. Mark Bould and Steven Shaviro. Goldsmiths Press, 2024. Print.

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“A Kind of Continuous Conceptual Drunkenness?” Terraforming and Analogy in Science Fiction. Calgary Institute of the Humanities. Forthcoming.

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2023

"Narrating Rural Change: Visions of the Future and Farming in Welsh Science Fiction." Revista Helice: Reflexiones Criticas Sobre Ficcion Especulativa, special issue on Speculative Landscape 33 (2023). Web. <https://www.revistahelice.com/revista_textos/n_33/Helice-33-Reflexiones-Pak-Farming-WelshSF.pdf>.

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2022

​​[reprint] “Cities in Science Fiction.” Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Horror, and Fantasy. Ed. Michael Fuchs, Stefan Rabitsch and Stefan L. Brandt. MS: University of Mississippi Press, 2022. Print.

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2021

​“Fragmentation, Coherence and Worldbuilding in Magic: The Gathering.” SFRA Review 51.4 (2021). Web. <https://sfrareview.org/category/51-3/>.

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"Climate Crisis: How Science Fiction’s Hopes and Fears Can Inspire Humanity’s Response.” The Converation (2021). Web. <https://theconversation.com/climate-crisis-how-science-fictions-hopes-and-fears-can-inspire-humanitys-response-167092>.

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“Magic: The Gathering.” Transmedia Cultures: A Companion. Ed. Simon Bacon. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2021. Print.

 

2020

[reprint] “‘Then Came Pantropy’: Grotesque Bodies, Multispecies Flourishing and Human-Animal Relationships.” Posthuman Biopolitics: The Science Fiction of Joan Slonczewski. Ed. Bruno Clarke. Palgrave, 2020. 65–83. Print.

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“Oil and Energy Infrastructures in Science Fiction Short Stories.” The Palgrave Handbook of Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature and Science. Ed. Priscilla Wald, Patrick Jagoda et al. Hampshire: Palgrave, 2020. 469–482. Print.

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“Animals.” Sci-Fi: A Companion. Ed. Jack Fennell. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2020. 161–165. Print.

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“‘It Is One Story’: Writing a Global Alternative History in Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Years of Rice and Salt.” Sideways in Time: Alternate History and Counterfactual Narratives. Ed. Glyn Morgan and Charul Patel. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020. 46–61. Print.

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2019

“Planetary Climates: Terraforming in Science Fiction.” Climate and Literature. Ed. Adeline Johns-Putra. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 196–211. Print.

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“‘Something that Looked Partly Like a Woman Partly Like a Cat’: Deliquescence, Hybridity and the Animal in the Empty Space Trilogy.” Irradiating the Object. Ed. Mark Bould and Rhys Williams. Canterbury: Gylphi, 2019. 193–201. Print.

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“Terragouge.” An Ecotopian Lexicon, edited by Brent Ryan-Bellamy and Matthew Schneider-Mayerson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. Print.

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2018

“Kim Stanley Robinson’s Science in the Capitol Trilogy (2004–2007).” Cli-Fi: A Companion, edited by Axel Goodbody and Adeline Johns-Putra. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2018. Print.

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"Terraforming and Geoengineering in Luna: New Moon, 2312, and Aurora." Science Fiction Studies 45.3 (2018): 500–514. Print.

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with Alison Sealey. “First Catch Your Corpus: Methodological Challenges in Constructing a Thematic Corpus.” Corpora 13.2 (2018): 229–254. Print.

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2017

“A Modelling of ‘Model’—A Linguistic Network Graph.” King’s Digital Lab (2017). Web. <https://www.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/blog/models-model-linguistic-network-graph/>.

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“An Exercise in Visualisation: ‘Model’ Seen through a Network Graph.” Modelling Between Digital and Humanities: Thinking in Practice (2017). Web. <http://modellingdh.uni-koeln.de/index.php/resources-2/material/blog-post-an-exercise-in-visualisation/?lang=de>.
 

“‘The Shadow of the Future Made All the Difference’: Sustainability in Kim Stanley Robison’s Science in the Capital Trilogy.” Literature and Sustainability: Concept, Text and Culture. Ed. John Parham, Adeline Johns-Putra and Louise Squire. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. Print.

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“‘Then Came Pantropy’: Grotesque Bodies, Multispecies Flourishing and Human-Animal Relationships.” Science Fiction Studies 44.1 (2017): 122–136. Print.

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2016

“Terraforming and the City.” Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment: Urbanity and Ecology 7.2 (2016): 65–84. Web. <http://ecozona.eu/article/view/859>.

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“Terraforming and Geoengineering in Science Fiction.” Strange Horizons (2016). Web. <http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/articles/terraforming-and-geoengineering-in-science-fiction/>.

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2015

“The Independent Entrepreneur and the Terraforming of Mars.” Commercial Space Exploration: Ethics, Policy and Governance. Ed. Jai Galliott. Surrey: Ashgate, 2015. 273–285. Print.

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​“‘The Goal of Martian Economics Is Not “Sustainable Development” but a Sustainable Prosperity for Its Entire Biosphere’: Science Fiction and the Sustainability Debate.” Green Letters 19.1 (2015): 36–49. Print.

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“Corpus Linguistics 101.” SFRA Review 311 (2015): 18–30. Web. <https://sfra.wildapricot.org/SFRA-Review>.

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with Alison Sealey. “‘An Urban Fox Is a Bushy-Tailed James Dean, Living Fast and Dying Young’: Representations of Foxes in UK Discourse.” “People”, “Products”, “Pests” and “Pets”: The Discursive Representation of Animals. (2015). Web. <https://animaldiscourse.wordpress.com/indicative-findings/>.

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2014

“‘All Energy Is Borrowed’ – Terraforming: A Master Motif for Physical and Cultural Re(Up)Cycling in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy.” Green Letters 18 (2014): 1–13. Print.

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2013

“Terraforming and Proto-Gaian Narratives in American Pulp SF of the 1930s–1940s.” The Eaton Journal of Archival Research 1 (2013): 38–55. Print.

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2012

“‘A Creature Alive But Tranced and Obscurely Yearning to Wake’: Gaian Anticipations and Terraforming in the European Science Fiction of H.G. Wells, Olaf Stapledon and Stanislaw Lem.” Revista Helice: Reflexiones Criticas Sobre Ficcion Especulativa 15 (2012): 12–19. Web. <http://www.revistahelice.com>.

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“‘A Fantastic Reflex of Itself, An Echo, A Symbol, A Myth, A Crazy Dream’: Terraforming as Landscaping Nature’s Otherness in H.G. Wells’s The Shape of Things to Come and Olaf Stapledon’s Last and First Men and Star Maker.” Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction 40.111 (2012): 14–31. Print.

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“Terraforming 101.” SFRA Review 302 (2012): 6–15. Web. <https://sfra.wildapricot.org/SFRA-Review>.

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“Discovering a Higher Plane: Dimensionality and Enlightenment in Flatland and Diaspora.” Mathematics in Popular Culture: Essays on Appearances in Film, Fiction, Games, Television and Other Media. Ed. Jessica K. Sklar and Elizabeth S. Sklar. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. 304–313. Print.

 

Entries on authors Leigh Brackett, Fredric Brown, Howard Browne, Harlan Coben, Richard Condon, Norbert Davis, Roy Huggins, Frederick Nebel, William F. Nolan, Donald Westlake and Raoul Whitfield in 100 American Crime Writers, ed. by Steven Powell. Hampshire: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012. Print.

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2011

“Environmental Philosophy and Space in Literature: Landscaping and the Chronotope.” Online Journal of Snippets: American Literature 1 (2011): 5–6. Web. <http://www.brief.umcs.eu/amlit/brief-1_american-literature.pdf>.

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“The Language of Postnationality: Cultural Identity via Science Fictional Trajectories.” The Postnational Fantasy: Essays on Postcolonialism, Cosmopolitics and Science Fiction. Ed. Masood A Raja, Jason W Ellis, and Swaralipi Nandi. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2011. 56–70. Print.

 

“Computers in Science Fiction: Anxiety and Anticipation.” Science Fiction and Computing: Essays on Interlinked Domains. Ed. David L. Ferro and Eric G. Swedin. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011. 38–53. Print.

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Updated and wrote entries for the 2012 Hugo award winning online Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, including new articles on Mark Bould, Robert Crossley, Michael Andre-Driussi, Neil Easterbrook, David Engebretson, Richard D. Erlich, Bud Foote, Carl Freedman, Leslie A. Fiedler, Danny Gresh, S.T. Joshi and Sylvia Kelso. Web.

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2010

“Ecocriticism and Terraforming: Building Critical Spaces.” Forum: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & the Arts 10 (2010): 1–14. Web. <http://www.forumjournal.org/site/issue/10/chris-pak>.

 

“The Dialogic Science Fiction Megatext: Vivisection in H.G. Wells’s The Island of Dr Moreau and Genetic Engineering in Gene Wolfe’s ‘The Woman Who Loved the Centaur Pholus.’” Green Letters 12 (2010): 27–35. Print.

 

“Confronting or Sidestepping Race in SF Film Adaptations: I, Robot and I Am Legend.” US China Foreign Language 8.1 (2010): 59–64. Print.

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“Stories of the Future.” Dark Mountain 1 (2010): 62–73. Print.