CONTENTS

Creative Think Piece: Frank Belknap Long Letters, Written to Michael E. Ambrose, 1976-1979 Katherine Kerestman

Afro-cosmicism: On the Craft of Seizing Speculative Reparations Chris Campbell, Hartwell Award Finalist

Anarres: Where Women Hold Up Half the Sky Natalie Fourmyle, Hartwell Award Finalist

Magneto's Power to Survive the Holocaust: Examining the Fantastic Relationship Between Character and Setting in Greg Pak's X-Men: Magneto Testament Alexander Banks, Hartwell Award Finalist

Parasitism, Coexistence, and Colonialism in Animorphs Miranda Miller, Hartwell Award Winner

Is Dracula Anti-Semitic? Steven Brehe

Mapping Magic in Fantasy Novels: Magic Systems and Thematic Undercurrents in Mark Lawrence's Book of the Ancestor Finley Dunn

Economics in Frank Herber's Dune and its Use as a Storytelling Tool Amelia Kerns

Historical Fantasy and History Jared van Duinen

Faith, Dogma and Vision in Mr. Pye: A Quest for Synthesis Ruchira Mandal

"I'm Dead, I'm Dead, It's Good to Be Dead!": The Uncanny Epiphanies of Ray Bradbury's "Jack-in-the-Box" and H. P. Lovecraft's "The Outsider" Misty L. Jameson

Creative Think Piece: What One Can Become on the Verge of Global Unity Tracy Ross

REVIEWS

Maia Gil'Adí's Doom Patterns: Latinx Speculations and the Aesthetics of Violence Rev. by Alexander Banks

Charles L. Crow's California Gothic: The Dark Side of the Dream Rev. by Karin Beeler

Julie Wosk's Artificial Women: Sex Dolls, Robot Caregivers, and More Facsimile Females Rev. by Ashley Perry