SPECIAL GUEST PLENARIES AND INTERVIEWS "Funhouse or Madhouse: Whimsy in Creativity": ICFA 45 Guests of Honor C.E. Murphy and Mary A. Turzillo, Distinguished Scholar Mame Bougouma Diene, Moderator Novella Brooks de Vita Geoffrey A. Landis, Transcriber Whimsy and Social Control in Northern Senegal Woppa Diallo, Co-Distinguished Scholar, ICFA 2024 Translated by Alexis Brooks de Vita Imaginary Amendments and Executive Orders: The Noirum and Race in United States Science Fiction Isiah Lavender III, Distinguished Scholar, ICFA 2023 Whimsy & Revolution: A Comparative Analysis of the Works of Marcos, Herzl and Young Mame Bougouma Diene, Co-Distinguished Scholar, ICFA 2024 Biological Haunting: An Interview with Silvia Moreno-Garcia on Adaptation, Genre, Eugenics, and Fungi Interviewed by Taryne Jade Taylor and Karina A. Vado Wole Talabi's Plenary Address and Interview: Afro-Communitarianism as a Positive Framework for Artificial Intelligence in "A Dream of Electric Mothers" Creative Think Piece-A Breath of Life: The Necessary Human Touch in Music An Interview of Nancy Menk, DMA, and Jason Oby, DM Interviewed by Novella Brooks de Vita REVIEWS Alec Nevala-Lee's Collisions: A Physicist's Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs Rev. by Geoffrey Alan Landis Stacy Alaimo's The Abyss Stares Back: Encounters with Deep-Sea Life Rev. by Supriya Baijal