Fafnir

Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction & Fantasy Research. 2020 World Fantasy Award-winning & peer-reviewed. Published by @Finfar_Finland

ISSN: 2342-2009

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✨NEW ISSUE OUT! ✨

Fafnir's latest issue features a prefatory by Israel A.C. Noletto on SF & Eutopian Imagination, 2 essays on Norwegian SF & climate modeling as a worldbuilding tool, a lectio praecursoria and 7 book reviews! 🐉

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In "Attuned to Loss," Radvilė Musteikytė uses James Phelan’s rhetorical narrative theory to examine how Richard Powers and Emmi Itäranta's novels evoke solastalgia and attune readers to environmental loss.

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She explores the various narrative strategies employed by authors to shift their readers’ outlook on the actual world and its environments. Radvilė is a keen reader of cli-fi & SF, an active member of Lithuanian SFF lovers’ community, and one of the head organisers of Lituanicon.

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Essi Varis reviews Merja Polvinen’s Self-Reflective Fiction and 4E Cognition, which demonstrates how SF narratives constitute “cognitive environments” for fostering layered effects of self-reflection, potentially leading to entirely new ways of thinking.

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Varis serves in the jury of Finland's national comic book award, Sarjakuva-Finlandia and has also served as an editor-in-chief of Fafnir in 2021–2023.

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📣 Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research invites authors to submit papers for issue 2/2026. 📣

Deadline: 30.06.2026

Submissions should be made through the online portal:
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She is currently working on vulnerable forms of masculinity in film, as part of the group “Masculinidades vulnerables y normatividad en las narrativas estadounidenses 1783-1929.”

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Cristina Arbués Caballé reviews Jaime Harrison’s Digital Culture in Contemporary Fiction, which investigates representations of algorithms in works by Joshua Cohen, Nicola Barker, Neal Stephenson & a Grasshopper Manufacture visual novel. @LivUniPress

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She specializes in contemporary British fiction and her research focuses in particular on the intersections between trauma studies and the uses of metafiction.

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Miranda Miller reviews Julie Wosk’s Artificial Women: Sex Dolls, Robot Caregivers, and More Facsimile Females @iupress, which explores how artificial women are represented in media and their links to sexuality, gender, and technology.

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Recently, she won the David G. Hartwell Emerging Scholar Award at ICFA 2025 for her paper, “Parasitism, Coexistence, and Colonialism in Animorphs.”

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He holds a BA in Creative Writing and a BA (Hons) in English Studies from the University of South Africa, an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Hull, and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Pretoria.

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Jayden King reviews Matthew Oliver's Magic Words, Magic Worlds: Form and Style in Epic Fantasy, which close reads selected novels by Brandon Sanderson, Robert Jordan, and N. K. Jemisin to explore language and style in epic fantasy.

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Jayden King is a professional military flight instructor with a special interest in fantasy literature and creative writing.