The ulti­mate strength in this text is that it serves as a com­pan­ion to mul­ti­ple pieces of sci­ence fic­tion and fan­ta­sy, while also focus­ing on a dis­tinc­tive­ly post-Holo­caust the­mat­ic that arrives most clear­ly in the seg­ment dis­cussing post-apoc­a­lyp­tic works. The author's obser­va­tions are well sup­port­ed by evi­dence cit­ed direct­ly from the source mate­r­i­al. This strat­e­gy and pre­sen­ta­tion keeps both the analy­sis ground­ed.

Jewish Book Council

In Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy of the 1960s and 70s: The Post-Holocaust Authors, Valerie Estelle Frankel provides a fascinating ride through some of the key texts of the era and the Jews, Jewishness and Judaism in them. Highly recommended.

Nathan Abrams, Professor of Film Studies, Bangor University, Wales and author of The New Jew in Film: Exploring Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Cinema

Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy of the 1960s and 70s is another excellent book from the wonderfully prolific author and scholar Valerie Estelle Frankel. Covering the vast ground of Jewishness and the Holocaust in speculative fiction and cinema of the crucial two decades in the US, Israel, and South America, the volume is a rich source on everything from Star Trek to Kubrick to Clarice Lispector. Both the newcomers and aficionados of the genre will find here much to learn and debate. Highly recommended.

Marat Grinberg, Reed College