Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution

<strong>Kurt Guldentops is interested in science fiction and SF criticism. He lives and writes near Atlanta. He can be reached at <a href="mailto:kurt.guldentops@gmail.com">kurt.guldentops@gmail.com.</a></strong>

Kurt Guldentops

<strong>Sungshin Kim is professor of history at the University of North Georgia, where she teaches the history of modern China and Korea, and serves as director of East Asian studies.</strong>

Sungshin Kim

The Fantasy Story as a Merciless Laboratory of History: On R. F. Kuang’s “Babel, or The Necessity of Violence”

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — Frank Herbert

Violent Acts of Alien Intelligences: On Cixin Liu’s “The Three-Body Problem” and Mark Bould’s Climate Criticism

Kurt Guldentops is interested in science fiction and SF criticism. He lives and writes near Atlanta. He can be reached at <a href="mailto:kurt.guldentops@gmail.com">kurt.guldentops@gmail.com.</a>