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- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Science fiction histories
- 1 North African, Middle Eastern, Arabic and diasporic science fiction
- Introduction: Locating Arab sf in time, space and place
- Fantastical centres of gravity
- Space: Inner space, outer space, astrophobia
- Nation: ‘Now it’s the space race for skyscrapers’ (al-Maria qtd in Orton)
- Future: ‘palestine is a futurism’ (Tbakhi n.p.)
- In conclusion: An other to realism
- Works cited
- 2 The Copernican revolution
- What was the Copernican Revolution?
- Seventeenth-century interplanetary tales
- Time
- Politics
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- 3 Indigenous futurisms
- Indigenous science fiction and speculative aesthetics
- Indigenous futurity as political praxis
- Works cited
- 4 Art as science fiction
- Industrial art: Sublimity, 1766–1850
- Imperial art: Colour experiments, 1850–1900
- Modern movements: Time, space and the machine, 1900–45
- Cold War art: Machine images, 1945–90
- Post-colonial art: New cosmologies, 1990–2114
- Conclusion
- Works cited
- 5 Nineteenth-century western science fiction
- Works cited
- 6 Latin American science fiction
- Works cited
- 7 Russian-language science fiction
- Tsarist-era sf: 1784–1917
- Early Soviet sf: 1918–27
- Stalinist-era Soviet sf: 1928–55
- Thaw-era Soviet sf: 1956–65
- Stagnation-era Soviet sf: 1966–85
- Glasnost’-era Soviet sf: 1986–91
- Post-soviet sf: After 1991
- Works cited
- 8 South Asian science fiction
- Works cited
- 9 Afrodiasporic speculative fiction
- All Afro-everything
- From ancestors to futures
- Works cited
- 10 Anglophone print fiction: Children’s and young adult
- A brief history of primary sf
- A brief history of YASF
- Critical concerns
- Recent directions in YASF and primary sf
- Works cited
- 11 Afrofuturism
- Alienation and estrangement
- Contesting the future
- Revisiting and revising the past
- New conceptions of identity
- In lieu of a conclusion: Notes on Afrofuturism’s future
- Works cited
- 12 Science fiction illustration
- Definitions and historiographies
- Form and function
- Typical techniques
- Economic factors: Boom, bust, marginalisation, then repeat
- Works cited
- 13 Japanese science fiction
- Scientific nationalism
- From kagaku shōsetsu to sf
- Animated bodies
- Works cited
- 14 Science fiction film, 1895–1950
- Works cited
- 15 Chinese science fiction
- Works cited
- 16 Anglophone print fiction: The pulps to the New Wave
- Works cited
- 17 Anglophone science fiction fandoms, 1920s–2020s
- Works cited
- 18 Science fiction theatre
- Twentieth-century sf theatre
- Twenty-first century sf theatre
- Afrofuturist theatre and performance
- Conclusion
- Works cited
- 19 Radio and podcasts
- Radio, sound and narrative
- Sf radio in the United States
- Sf radio in the United Kingdom
- Sf podcasts
- Conclusion
- Works cited
- 20 Comics from the 1930s to the 1960s
- Works cited
- 21 Science fiction film and television: The 1950s to the 1970s
- Introduction: Disaster, death and despair
- Disaster in the 1950s
- Death in the 1960s
- Despair in the 1970s
- Conclusion
- Work cited
- 22 Video, installation art and short science fiction film
- 23 Anglophone print fiction: The New Wave to the new millennium
- The New Wave
- Style and substance
- Politics and ideologies
- Technology and beyond
- Cyberpunk and its contemporaries
- Punk and other aesthetics of postmodernity
- Speculative biopolitics and leftist critique
- Technocultural transformations
- Conclusion
- Works cited
- 24 Comics since the late 1960s
- Works cited
- 25 Transmedia and franchise science fiction
- The Star Wars event: Transmedia storytelling takes flight
- The political economy of transmedia franchising
- Transmedia franchising comes of age: Marvel superheroes in the age of Disney
- Disney’s competition: DC, Star Trek and the Lego-verse
- Works cited
- 26 Science fiction film and television: The 1980s and 1990s
- An expanded universe: Industries, technologies and aesthetics
- Technoscience
- Time travels
- Alien encounters
- Dystopias and post-apocalyptic futures
- Into the 21st century
- Works cited
- 27 South Korean science fiction
- Protest sf
- Post-IMF sf
- Feminist and queer sf
- Conclusion
- Works cited
- 28 Twenty-first century film
- 29 Twenty-first century television
- Realities, conspiracies, catastrophes
- More-than-human protagonists in near-futures
- Invasions, empires, the new space age
- The utopian, the strange, the visionary
- Works cited
- 30 Anglophone print fiction: The new millennium
- Works cited
- 31 Diasporic Latinx futurisms
- Defining Latinx Futurisms
- Four tenets of Latinx futurisms
- Indigenous science and Traditional Knowledge in Latinx Futurisms
- Conclusion
- Works cited
- Part II Science fiction praxis
- 32 Advertising, prototyping and Silicon Valley culture
- Advertising
- Prototyping
- Silicon Valley culture
- Works cited
- 33 Alternate history
- Works cited
- 34 Animal studies
- Works cited
- 35 Biopolitics
- Foucault and the order of biopolitical governance
- Agamben and biopolitical fractures of modernity
- Esposito and the autoimmune disorder
- Biopolitical elision, decolonial critique
- Works cited
- 36 Climate crisis and environmental humanities
- Works cited
- 37 Critical ethnic studies
- Mediating late capitalism
- Case study: Asian American sf
- Conclusion
- Works cited
- 38 Digital cultures
- Theorising digital cultures
- Turning into data
- Radicalisation and disinformation
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- 39 Disability studies
- Disability and sf
- Why a disability perspective on sf?
- Conceptualising the future: Medical and technological cures
- Reading the absence
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Works cited
- 40 DIY science fiction
- Theorising DIY sf
- DIY fan films
- DIY Trek
- Original DIY sf
- Conclusion
- Works cited
- 41 Economics and financialisation
- The financial turn and financial sf
- Speculative finance vs. speculative fiction
- Financialisation and debt
- Sf, algorithmic AI and surveillance capitalism
- Sf as a financial instrument
- Conclusion: Sf, finance, sabotage and utopian recuperation
- Works cited
- 42 Empire
- Works cited
- 43 Energy humanities
- Works cited
- 44 Feminisms
- Pre-nineteenth century English feminism, sf and utopias
- US feminism and utopian sf, 1820–1920
- US feminism(s), women’s activism and women’s pulp sf, 1920–1960
- US women’s liberation movement and prominent feminist sf, 1960–80
- Standpoint, post-structural, intersectional, third wave feminism(s) and cyborg feminist sf, 1980s–2000
- Continuing waves, lengthening strands, and diverse feminist sf, 2000–present
- Works cited
- 45 Game studies
- Affective science fictions
- Modularity of sf
- Worldbuilding
- Spatiality
- Procedurality
- Works cited
- 46 Geography, urban design and architecture
- The planetary
- The city
- The neighbourhood
- The building
- The room
- The doorway
- Works cited
- 47 Marxism
- Marxism(s) and literature(s)
- Marxist sf
- Works cited
- 48 Medical humanities
- Biomedical novums
- Looking ‘into’ and ‘at’ the medical future
- Illness narratives and disability studies
- Conclusion
- Works cited
- 49 New materialism
- Works cited
- 50 Post/trans/human
- Critical posthumanism
- Transhumanism
- The control problem
- Posthumanism in the Anthropocene
- Critical transhumanism
- Works cited
- 51 Queer and trans theory
- Introduction: Science fiction is queer theory?
- Queer and trans worldbuilding as collective performance
- Undoing human nature
- Watery kindred
- Conclusion
- Works cited
- 52 Science fiction tourism
- Space tourism
- A brief history of sf tourism
- Historical and cultural destinations for sf tourism
- World’s fairs
- Coney Island and its successors
- Dime museums
- The future now: Closer to home
- Works cited
- 53 Social activism and science fiction
- Works cited
- 54 Sonic studies
- Works cited
- 55 Utopian studies
- Introduction
- Colonising Utopia
- Eugenic perfection
- An ongoing legacy
- Utopianism’s alternate histories
- Beyond the pale
- Works cited
- Index




