Chris Pak
Last Updated: 28th October 2024
Digital Projects Co-Ordinator for the Medical Humanities Blog
Lecturer in Contemporary Writing and Digital Cultures, Swansea University
Reviews
2023
“Changing Our Dreams and Visions.” [review of Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction] Science Fiction Studies 50.3 (2023): 506–510. Print.
2022
“Forging an Anthropocenic Awareness Through Literature.” [review of Images of the Anthropocene in Speculative Fictions: Narrating the Future] Science Fiction Studies 49.3 (2022): 384–388. Print.
2021
“Drawn by a Tropism.” [review of Plants in Science Fiction] Science Fiction Studies 48.1 (2021): 145–148. Print.
2020
“Kim Stanley Robinson.” Utopian Studies 31.1 (2020): 658–664. Print.
2018
“Landscape and the Science Fiction Imaginary.” Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction 47.3 (2018): 102–106. Print.
“You Should Come With Me Now.” Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction 47.2 (2018). Print.
2017
“An Economy Is a Living Thing: Andy Weir’s Artemis.” LARB: The LA Review of Books (2017). Web. <https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-economy-is-a-living-thing-andy-weirs-artemis/>.
“A Book Review: A Handy Dictionary for SF Futurists. Ace G. Pilkington—Science Fiction and Futurism: Their Terms and Ideas.” Fafnir—Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research 4.2 (2017). Web. <http://journal.finfar.org/articles/1009/>.
“Red Marble” [review of Ridley Scott's The Martian]. Science Fiction Film and Television 10.1 (2017): 105–114. Print.
2016
“Luna: New Moon.” Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction 45.3 (2016): 119–123. Print.
“Reaching for the Horizon” [review of Gerald Alva Miller, Jr’s Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction]. Extrapolation 57.1/2 (2016): 242–247. Print.
“The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction.” Science Fiction Film and Television 9.2 (2016): 270–274. Print.
2015
“The Disestablishment of Paradise.” Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction 44.3 (2015): 112–115. Print.
“Parks and Recreation: Season 7.” SFRA Review 314 (2015): 44–45. Web. <http://www.sfra.org/resources/Documents/SFRA%20314.pdf>.
“Squaring the Circle: A Pseudotreatise of Urbogony.” SFRA Review 313 (2015): 58–60. Web. <http://www.sfra.org/resources/Documents/SFRA%20Review%20313.pdf>.
“We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves.” SFRA Review 312 (2015): 30–32. Web. <http://www.sfra.org/resources/Documents/SFRA%20Review%20312.pdf>.
“Terra.” Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction 44.1 (2015): 139–142. Print.
“Ether Frolics: Nine Tales from the Etheric Explorers Club.” SFRA Review 311 (2015): 43–44. Web. <http://www.sfra.org/resources/sfra-review/311.pdf>.
2014
“Speaking from the Green Perspective: Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction.” Paradoxa 26 (2014): 311–316. Print.
“In the Provinces of the Mode” [review of Locating Science Fiction by Andrew Milner]. Extrapolation. 55.3 (2014): 406–411. Print.
“The Girl With All the Gifts.” SFRA Review 310 (2014): 51–52. Web. <http://www.sfra.org/resources/sfra-review/310.pdf>.
“Parabolas of Science Fiction by Brian Attebery and Veronica Hollinger.” Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction 43.117 (2014): 106–110. Print.
“The Man From Earth [Film].” SFRA Review 309 (2014): 49–50. Web. <http://www.sfra.org/resources/sfra-review/309.pdf>.
“Europa Report [Film].” SFRA Review 307–8 (2014): 40–41. Web. <http://www.sfra.org/resources/sfra-review/307-308.pdf>.
“Enrique Gaspar, The Time Ship: A Chrononautical Journey.” Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction 42.116 (2014): 124–128. Print.
“Empty Space: A Haunting by M. John Harrison.” Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction 42.115 (2014): 79–82. Print.
2013
“Book Review of Green Speculations: Science Fiction and Transformative Environmentalism.” Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 4.2 (2013): 254–257. Web. <http://www.ecozona.eu/index.php/journal/article/view/417/772>.
2012
“The Mist Reviewed by Chris Pak.” [Film] Nightmare Visions. 2012. Web. 2014. <http://twistedtalesevents.blogspot.com/2011/01/mist-reviewed-by-chris-pak.html>.
“Terra [Online Comic].” SFRA Review 299 (2012): 31–32. Web. <https://sfra.wildapricot.org/resources/sfra-review/299.pdf>.
2011
“The Black Mirror and Other Stories: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Germany and Austria: Edited by Franz Rottensteiner, Trans. by Mike Mitchell.” Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction 39.109 (2011): 96–99. Print.
“Chained to the Alien: The Best of ASFR (Second Series) and Skiffy and Mimesis: More Best of ASFR, Australian Science Fiction Review.” SFRA Review 298 (2011): 18–21. Web. <https://sfra.wildapricot.org/resources/sfra-review/298.pdf>.
2010
“Zombieland [Film].” SFRA Review 291 (2010): 23. Web. <https://sfra.wildapricot.org/resources/sfra-review/291.pdf>.
“Urbis Morpheos by Stephen Palmer.” Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction 38.107 (2010): 119–122. Print.
“Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock.” The Venetian Vase. 2010. Web. 2014. <http://venetianvase.co.uk/2010/11/29/graham-greenes-brighton-rock/>.
“Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film by Adilifu Nama.” Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction 38.105 (2010): 118–121. Print.
2009
“Bender’s Big Score and The Beast with a Billion Backs.” [Film] SFRA Review 288 (2009): 23–24. Web. <https://sfra.wildapricot.org/resources/sfra-review/288.pdf>.
2008
“Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem.” The Reader Online. 2008. Web. 2014. <http://thereaderonline.co.uk/2008/06/review-solaris-by-stanislaw-lem/>.
“Recommended Reads: Writing Liverpool by Michael Murphy and Deryn Rees-Jones.” The Reader Online. 2008. Web. 2014. <http://thereaderonline.co.uk/2008/12/recommended-reads-writing-liverpool-by-michael-murphy-and-deryn-rees-jones/>.
“Recommended Reads: Gould’s Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan.” The Reader Online. 2008. Web. 2014. <http://thereaderonline.co.uk/2008/10/recommended-reads-goulds-book-of-fish-by-richard-flanagan/>.