‘Art Happens not in Isolation, But in Community’: The Collective Literacies of Media Fandom by Jenkins Henry

“…When the Archive of Our Own (AO3) received a prestigious Hugo Award from the World Science Fiction Convention in Dublin the summer of 2019, this moment represented a recognition by the literary science fiction community of an alternative model of authorship – one which operates outside the publishing world or academia, one where authorship is collective rather than individual, and one where artworks are appropriative and transformative rather than “original.” …”
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La trilogie des Trois corps de Liu Cixin et le statut de la science-fiction en Chine contemporaine by Gwennaël Gaffric

“…Huge bestseller, great critical success, soon adapted to a series of movies, the English translation of the first volume also won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2015. With the considerable success he achieved with this trilogy, Liu Cixin has become for the readers, critics and even supporters of Chinese soft power the standard-bearer of a new “era” of Chinese science fiction, called to promote the “Chinese dream” to the international community. …”
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La représentation de la censure dans la série romanesque japonaise Library Wars : une lecture à la lueur de Fahrenheit 451 by Maxime Danesin

“…Multi-genre (dystopian, uchronian, love-comedy), written in a local media form – light novel –, it has been widely successful, earning the author the Seiun Award 2008 – the Japanese equivalent of the Hugo Award. Arikawa’s work surprises with its original approach of the theme of Censorship and the way its story has a strong resonance with Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451. …”
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