Fafnir

✨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

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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.

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 here: fafnir.journal.fi/article/view/1…

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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.

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/1…

📣 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/submissi…

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.”

She specializes in contemporary British fiction and her research focuses in particular on the intersections between trauma studies and the uses of metafiction.

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 fafnir.journal.fi/article/view/1…

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Recently, she won the David G. Hartwell Emerging Scholar Award at ICFA 2025 for her paper, “Parasitism, Coexistence, and Colonialism in Animorphs.”

Miranda Miller reviews Julie Wosk’s Artificial Women: Sex Dolls, Robot Caregivers, and More Facsimile Females @iupress, which explores how artificial women are represented in media and their links to sexuality, gender, and technology. fafnir.journal.fi/article/view/1…

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.

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

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/1…