Volume 7. Issue 1.
May 2023

ISSN: 2514-8915

The first issue of the Fantastika Review, featuring an exciting range of non-fiction and fiction reviews of recently published Fantastika texts.

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STAR WARRIORS OF THE MODERN RAJ (2021) BY SAMI AHMAD KHAN

Review by C. Palmer-Patel

REMAINDERS OF THE AMERICAN CENTURY: POST-APOCALYPTIC NOVELS IN THE AGE
OF US DECLINE (2021) BY BRENT RYAN BELLAMY

Review by Ezekiel Crago

FAIRY TALES OF LONDON: BRITISH URBAN FANTASY, 1840 TO THE PRESENT (2021)
BY HADAS ELBER-AVIRAM

Review by Tony Keen

THE NEW WITCHES: CRITICAL ESSAYS ON 21ST CENTURY TELEVISION PORTRAYALS
(2021) EDITED BY AARON K. H. HO

Review by Chloe Campbell

POST-APARTHEID GOTHIC: WHITE SOUTH AFRICAN WRITERS AND SPACE (2021)
BY MÉLANIE JOSEPH-VILAIN

Review by Madelyn Marie Schoonover

CYBERPUNK CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY: SEEING THROUGH THE MIRRORSHADES
(2021) BY ANNA MCFARLANE

Review by Esko Suoranta

THE GOTHIC NOVEL IN IRELAND C. 1760 – 1829 (2018) BY CHRISTINA MORIN

Review by Kyle Brett

THE SCIENCE OF LIFE AND DEATH IN FRANKENSTEIN (2021) BY SHARON RUSTON

Review by Ruth-Anne Walbank

DIVERSE FUTURES: SCIENCE FICTION AND AUTHORS OF COLOR (2021)
BY JOY SANCHEZ-TAYLOR

Review by Alexandria Nunn

YOUNG ADULT GOTHIC FICTION (2021) EDITED BY MICHELLE J. SMITH AND KRISTINE MORUZI

Review by Alison Baker

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Fiction Reviews

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APOCALYPSE IN THE MAKING

A Review of A World of Women (2022) by Christina Lake

A ‘FRESH’ TAKE ON CANNIBALISTIC CAPITALISM

A Review of Fresh (2022) by Review by Barnaby Falck

THE ANGEL OF CROCKETT ISLAND: IS MIDNIGHT MASS (2021) A VAMPIRE STORY?

A Review of Midnight Mass (2021) by Kat Humphries

POKÉMON’S FIRST ECOGOTHIC NARRATIVE

A Review of Pokémon Legends: Arceus (2022) by Review by Liam J. L. Knight

PARODYING GENDER AND THE ROBOT APOCALYPSE IN BIGBUG (2022)

A Review of BigBug (2022) by Chase Ledin

BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS THROUGH THE FRACTURED LIMINAL GLASS

A Review of Wild and Wicked Things (2022) by Ksenia Shcherbino

REPRESS ME NOT, FOR I AM YOUR SUPERPOWER: SUPER-HEROISM AND MENTAL
ILLNESS IN MOON KNIGHT (2022)

A Review of Moon Knight (2022) by Aicha Daoudi

MAPPING FOLK HORROR THROUGH HISTORY’S DAMNABLE TALES (2022)

A Review of Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology (2022) by Marietta Kosma

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Non-Fiction Reviews

STAR WARRIORS OF THE MODERN RAJ (2021) BY SAMI AHMAD KHAN

REMAINDERS OF THE AMERICAN CENTURY: POST-APOCALYPTIC NOVELS IN THE AGE
OF US DECLINE (2021) BY BRENT RYAN BELLAMY

FAIRY TALES OF LONDON: BRITISH URBAN FANTASY, 1840 TO THE PRESENT (2021)
BY HADAS ELBER-AVIRAM

THE NEW WITCHES: CRITICAL ESSAYS ON 21ST CENTURY TELEVISION PORTRAYALS
(2021) EDITED BY AARON K. H. HO

POST-APARTHEID GOTHIC: WHITE SOUTH AFRICAN WRITERS AND SPACE (2021)
BY MÉLANIE JOSEPH-VILAIN

CYBERPUNK CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY: SEEING THROUGH THE MIRRORSHADES
(2021) BY ANNA MCFARLANE

THE GOTHIC NOVEL IN IRELAND C. 1760 – 1829 (2018) BY CHRISTINA MORIN

THE SCIENCE OF LIFE AND DEATH IN FRANKENSTEIN (2021) BY SHARON RUSTON

DIVERSE FUTURES: SCIENCE FICTION AND AUTHORS OF COLOR (2021)
BY JOY SANCHEZ-TAYLOR

YOUNG ADULT GOTHIC FICTION (2021) EDITED BY MICHELLE J. SMITH AND KRISTINE MORUZI

Fiction Reviews

APOCALYPSE IN THE MAKING

A ‘FRESH’ TAKE ON CANNIBALISTIC CAPITALISM

THE ANGEL OF CROCKETT ISLAND: IS MIDNIGHT MASS (2021) A VAMPIRE STORY?

POKÉMON’S FIRST ECOGOTHIC NARRATIVE

PARODYING GENDER AND THE ROBOT APOCALYPSE IN BIGBUG (2022)

BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS THROUGH THE FRACTURED LIMINAL GLASS

REPRESS ME NOT, FOR I AM YOUR SUPERPOWER: SUPER-HEROISM AND MENTAL
ILLNESS IN MOON KNIGHT (2022)

MAPPING FOLK HORROR THROUGH HISTORY’S DAMNABLE TALES (2022)

Sisterhood, Diversity, and Witchcraft in Juno Dawson’s Her Majesty’s Royal Coven

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