Fafnir

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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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Fafnir @Fafnir_Journal Mar 3

✨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! 🐉

Read for free here: fafnir.journal.fi

Fafnir @Fafnir_Journal Jun 30

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

Fafnir @Fafnir_Journal May 4

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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Fafnir @Fafnir_Journal May 1

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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Fafnir @Fafnir_Journal Apr 22

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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