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    All accepted articles that are ready for publication are accessible online in this ahead-of-print list. When they belong to a Theme Section they will be included in their scheduled issue. If Open Section, they will be included in the firstcoming regular issue when the time of publishing arrives. When articles are published in an issue, they are removed from OnlineFirst.

  • This cover image shows a space shuttle over a bustling sci-fi city.

    Worldbuilding & Design
    Vol. 2 No. 1 (2023)

    Editorial

    "Assembling the Fantastic" (Stephen Joyce, Christian Mehrstam, Rikke Schubart, Jakob Ion Wille)

    Theme Section

    1. “Video Games in Transmedia Storyworlds: The Witcher and the Mothership Problem” (Stephen Joyce, Aarhus University)
    2. “Transmedia Worldbuilding and Mashup Mythology in Penny Dreadful” (Anita Nell Bech Albertsen, University of Southern Denmark)
    3. “Unworlding in Nameless: The Negation of World-building” (Steen Ledet Christiansen, Aalborg University)
    4. “Making the Fantastic Real: From Design Fiction to Engineering Fandom” (Tem Frank Andersen, Peter Vistisen and Thessa Jensen, Aalborg University)

  • New Visions: Genre and Gender
    Vol. 1 No. 1 (2022)

    Editorial

    “From the Edge of the Rift” (Stephen Joyce, Christian Mehrstam, Jakob Ion Wille, Rikke Schubart)

    Theme Section

    1. “Fairy-Tale Reanimation Wanted for Better Futures” (Cristina Bacchilega, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, US, and Pauline Greenhill, University of Winnipeg)
    2. “Playing at Being a Superhero: Trish Walker in Jessica Jones” (Stephanie Green, Griffith University)
    3. “Daenerys Targaryen: Transformation to the Monumental” (Sharon Khalifa-Gueta, University of Haifa)
    4. “Be Gay Do Crime: Community Building and Queer Solidarity in Cloudpunk and Motor Crush” (Isobella Austin, Swinburne University of Technology in Victoria)
    5. “Representation, Otherness and Fantastic Storyworlds: Breaking Gender Binaries and Reworking Identities in Game of Thrones” (Louise Coopey, University of Birmingham)

    Open section

    1. “Antiheroes in the Rubble” (Marco Favaro, independent scholar)
  • A spaceship in the Universe - the front cover for Volume 3 Issue 1 of the journal Imagining the Impossible: International Journal for the Fantastic in Contemporary Media

    Otherly Beings & Objects
    Vol. 3 No. 1 (2024)

    Editorial

    "Alterity, Inside and Out" (Stephen Joyce, Christian Mehrstam, Per Israelson, Rikke Schubart)

    Theme Section

    1. "Everything and Nothing: The Horror of Meaning in The Cipher" (Alexander Sell, University at Buffalo)

    2. "The Fathomless Ocean of Objectivity: An OOO Reading of the Solaris Ocean in Stanislaw Lem's Solaris" (Kwasu Tembo)

    3. "'Here, Kitty, Kitty, Kitty': Reflections on Pet and Play in the Alien Franchise" (Rikke Schubart)

    4. "Crafted for the Digital World: Digitally Realistic Costumes in CG Feature Films" (Maarit Kalmakurki)

    5. "World-Building Through Garments and Accessories in Dungeons and Dragons Illustrations" (Stefan Ekman and Viktoria Holmqvist) 

    Book Review

    The Dragon in the West: from ancient myth to modern legend by Daniel Ogden (Oxford UP, 2021), reviewed by Audrey Isabel Taylor.