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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

REMINDER: Today (June 30) is the last day to submit your manuscripts to Fafnir for the 2/2026 issue!

Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

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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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Radvilė Musteikytė is a doctoral researcher at Vilnius University and the University of Turku. Her research project concerns contemporary Finnish speculative fiction and the ways in which it brings forth environmental topics.

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

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. Read for free here: fafnir.journal.fi/article/view...

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

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 @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Dr. Essi Varis studies narratives across media from various cognitive perspectives. She is currently working on her post-doctoral research project, Metacognitive Magic Mirrors: How Engaging with Texts and Images Enables and Extends Speculative Thought (Finnish Cultural Foundation 2020–2025).

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

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. fafnir.journal.fi/article/view...

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

📣 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: fafnir.journal.fi/about/submis...

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

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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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

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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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Cristina Arbués Caballé holds an MA and a PhD from the University of Barcelona, where she lectures at both BA and MA levels on postmodernist fiction, contemporary literature, and globalized identities.

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

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.bsky.social fafnir.journal.fi/article/view...

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

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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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Miranda Miller received her B.A. in English & Creative Writing from the University of Iowa and is currently a 2nd year graduate student at Florida Atlantic University. She is pursuing her M.A. in English with a concentration in SFF.

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Miranda Miller reviews Julie Wosk’s Artificial Women: Sex Dolls, Robot Caregivers, and More Facsimile Females, which examines the representation of artificial women across media, highlighting the relationships between sexuality, gender, technology, and simulation. fafnir.journal.fi/article/view...

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

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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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

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

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

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. fafnir.journal.fi/article/view...

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Her ongoing research investigates posthuman themes in anglophone South Asian science fiction as they intersect with environmental humanities, gender and sexuality studies and dystopian studies. She has previously published a book review in the South Asian Review.

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Anna Juhi John is a doctoral scholar in the Department of English Studies, Central University of Gujarat. Her research focuses on South Asian science fiction written in, and translated into English, particularly in the twenty-first century.

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Anna Juhi John reviews Urvashi Kuhad’s Science Fiction and Indian Women Writers: Exploring Radical Potentials, which examines the works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Manjula Padmanabhan, Priya Sarukkai Chabria and Vandana Singh. @routledgebooks.bsky.social fafnir.journal.fi/article/view...

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

She has written about the illustrations of Alice, worldbuilding, and the role of music & poetry in the text. She has also examined Discworld by Terry Pratchett, analyzing the importance of footnotes as a tool for expanding the lore and reinforcing the satire.

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Andrea Valeiras-Fernández’s PhD research in English Studies focused on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, analyzing its presence in popular culture. Her current academic interests focus on storytelling and the social assimilation of different narratives.

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Andrea Valeiras @aryaflintstark.bsky.social reviews The Songs of the Spheres: Lewis, Tolkien, & the Overlapping Realms of their Imagination (eds. Łukasz Neubauer & Guglielmo Spirito), which compares The Chronicles of Narnia and Tolkien’s subcreative works. fafnir.journal.fi/article/view...

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

She has previously published on the emotions of draugar in Icelandic sagas and has an upcoming chapter on Jack Kirby’s use of Norse mythological imagery in twentieth century comic books.

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Natalie Hopwood is a PhD candidate at the University of Leeds. Her thesis offers an intertextual analysis of encounters with dragons, dwarfs and the undead in Old Norse legendary and romance sagas. Her secondary research niche is the reception of medieval literature in popular culture.

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Natalie Hopwood @nrhopwood.bsky.social reviews Germanic Heroes, Courage, and Fate: Northern Narratives of Tolkien's Legendarium by Richard Z. Gallant @richardzgallant.bsky.social, which offers a new perspective on the theory of Northern Courage & the heroic. fafnir.journal.fi/article/view...

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

His professional interests include science fiction, fan studies, and the intersection of libraries and social justice.

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Jeremy Brett is a Librarian at Cushing Memorial Library & Archives, Texas A&M University, where he is the Curator of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Research Collection. He has received his MLS & MA in History from the University of Maryland–College Park.

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Jeremy Brett @jbarchivist.bsky.social reviews Science Fiction and the Historical Novel: Days of Future Pasts (eds. Ian P. MacDonald and Kate Polak) which explores the intersections between the historical and the speculative. @livunipress.bsky.social fafnir.journal.fi/article/view...

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

In “Game of Thrones as a Work of Fantasy Fiction in the Storytelling Environment of the Internet,” Markus Laukkanen @paratexts.bsky.social examines the interactive media culture around the series as an intriguing challenge for speculative fiction research. fafnir.journal.fi/article/view...

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Marta Mboka Tveit is a Postdoc Researcher at the University of Oslo. Her PhD took an ecocritical look at contemporary Anglo-African & Norwegian SF and its creators. She is interested in the nexus between culture and cultural theory on the one hand, and politics and philosophy on the other.

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

In “Undringslitteratur: Understanding New Norwegian Speculative Fictions,” Marta Tveit describes a form of speculative storytelling marked by Anthropocene poetics of scale, attention to everyday life & spirituality, and distinct Norwegian elements. Read here: fafnir.journal.fi/article/view...

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Michael Farnsworth is a researcher at the University of Sheffield working on artificial intelligence, robotics, and biologically inspired optimisation. His research explores applications in industry and manufacturing, aiming to improve efficiency, cost, and supply chain resilience.

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Dann Mitchell @climatedann.bsky.social is Professor of Climate Change at the University of Bristol. His research examines the impacts of climate change on extreme weather and human health, including heatwaves and floods. He also works to communicate climate science to the public and policymakers.

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

He is a Lead Author of the latest IPCC Assessment Report and an Affiliate Scientist at NCAR @ncar-ucar.bsky.social .

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Dan Lunt @climatesamwell.bsky.social Dan Lunt is Professor of Climate Science at the University of Bristol. His research focuses on paleoclimate modelling to understand Earth’s past climates and improve projections of future climate change.

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Alexander Farnsworth is a climate scientist at the University of Bristol, specializing in paleoclimate research. His work focuses on investigating past climate changes and how they can inform our understanding of future climate scenarios through climate modeling and analysis of historical data.

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