該雜志國際簡稱:EXTRAPOLATION,是由出版商Liverpool University Press出版的一本致力于發(fā)布文學研究新成果的的專業(yè)學術期刊。該雜志以LITERATURE研究為重點,主要發(fā)表刊登有創(chuàng)見的學術論文文章、行業(yè)最新科研成果,扼要報道階段性研究成果和重要研究工作的最新進展,選載對學科發(fā)展起指導作用的綜述與專論,促進學術發(fā)展,為廣大讀者服務。該刊是一本國際優(yōu)秀雜志,在國際上有很高的學術影響力。
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 theme scope is broad, involving racial construction, science fiction and fantasy for children and adolescents, gender and speculative texts, fantasy themes in mainstream texts, historical science fiction and fantasy, new bizarre novels, remakes, rewrites and refurbishments, cheap science fiction and fantasy, bodies in speculative texts, posthumanism, political science fiction and fantasy, non Western speculative traditions, etc.