Extrapolation was founded in 1959 by Thomas D. Clareson and was the first journal to publish academic work on science fiction and fantasy. It continues to be a leading, peer-reviewed, international journal in that specialized genre in the literature of popular culture.

It welcomes papers on all areas of speculative fiction and culture, including print, film, television, comic books and video games, and particularly encourages papers which consider popular texts within their larger cultural context.

The journal publishes a wide variety of critical approaches including but not limited to literary criticism, utopian studies, genre criticism, feminist theory, critical race studies, queer theory, and postcolonial theory. Extrapolation promotes innovative work which considers the place of speculative texts in contemporary culture. It is interested in promoting dialogue among scholars working within a number of traditions and in encouraging the serious study of popular culture.

Extrapolation is particularly interested in the following areas of study:

• Race in science fiction and fantasy
• Children's and Young Adult (YA) science fiction and fantasy
• Sexualities
• Fantastic motifs in mainstream texts
• Gender and speculative texts
• History of science fiction and fantasy
• New weird fiction
• Remakes/reboots, rewriting and retrofitting
• Pulp science fiction and fantasy
• The body in science fiction
• Posthumanism
• Political science fiction and fantasy
• Non-Western science fiction and fantasy
• Technoculture

Code of Conduct
LUP is committed to maintaining the highest ethical standards. We therefore ask that all contributors and reviewers adhere to the COPE Core Practices, including COPE's Position Statement on Authorship and AI Tools. More info can be found on the COPE website.

Abstracting and Indexing
Extrapolation is abstracted and indexed in ERIH PLUS, MLA International Bibliography, Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Scopus, and Web of Science's Arts and Humanities Citation Index and Current Contents/Arts & Humanities.

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Editors:
Andrew M Butler, Canterbury Christ Church University
Rachel Haywood, Iowa State University
Isiah Lavender III, University of Georgia
Hugh C. O'Connell, University of Massachusetts Boston
John Rieder, University of Hawaii
Joy Sanchez-Taylor, LaGuardia Community College (CUNY)

Book Reviews Editor:
D.Harlan Wilson, Wright State University

Editorial Board:
Lucie Armitt
Mark Bould
Mark Decker
Neil Easterbrook
Richard D. Erlich
Carl Freedman
Pawel Frelik
Sonja Fritzsche
M. Elizabeth Ginway
H. W. Hall
Joan Haran
D. Harlan Wilson
Darren Harris-Fain
Karen Hellekson
Ann Howey
John Huntington
De Witt Douglas Kilgore
Dale Knickerbocker
Roger Luckhurst
Farah Mendlesohn
Helen Merrick
Graham J. Murphy
Wendy Pearson
Robin Reid
Benjamin J. Robertson
Alcena Rogan
Karen Sayer
Joe Sutliff Sanders
Patrick Sharp
Eric Smith
J. P. Telotte
Sherryl Vint
Gary Westfahl
Clyde Wilcox
Tess Williams
Lisa Yaszek

Essays should be approximately 4,000–8,000 words—formatted according to MLA 8 standards—with a 100-word abstract, and sent to [email protected]. The editors aim to respond to submissions within three months. Please do not send simultaneous submissions of articles to other publications.
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Editorial correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Andrew M. Butler at [email protected]

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Language Editing Services
Liverpool University Press partners with Enago to offer English editing services to authors around the world. Enago's service can help to improve the quality of manuscripts submitted to the journal, especially authors for whom English is not the first language. Please see here for more information.

Open Access and Publication Fees
This journal is a hybrid journal. There is no charge to authors wishing to publish in the journal and it operates on a standard subscription model. However, if an author wishes to publish their article Gold Open Access under their choice of CC licence, they may contact the journal to discuss this. The Article Processing Charge is £1,250 and this fee is payable to the publisher after an article has been accepted for publication.
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Peer Review Policy
All articles published in the journal (including in any special issues) are subject to peer-review by objective experts in the field, prior to the acceptance by the journal editor(s). The journal employs a double-anonymous review (anonymity strictly observed between author and reviewer).

For further information on the ethics we ask our journal editors, authors, and reviewers to adhere to, please visit LUP’s Code of Conduct.

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Subscription Rates
3 issues per year (standard subscription online access from 2005, older content available in Liverpool Science Fiction Studies Online)

Institutions: Liverpool University Press operates a tiered pricing system for institutional journal subscriptions, if you are unsure of your institution's tier please contact [email protected]
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Individuals:

• Individual (print and online): £37 / US$60
• Individual (online only): £30 / US$43

Members: Members of the Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) receive the journal as part of their membership. Become a member >

How to subscribe: Email [email protected] or telephone +44 (0)151 795 1080.

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Book Reviews:
If you are interested in reviewing a book for Extrapolation or if you have published a book you would like reviewed by Extrapolation, please contact D. Harlan Wilson:

D. Harlan Wilson
Department of English
Wright State University-Lake Campus
7600 Lake Campus Drive
Celina, Ohio 45822
USA
[email protected]

Advertising:
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Editorial Queries:
Editorial correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Andrew M. Butler at [email protected].

Sample Copies:
For sample copies, please contact Natasha Bikkul.