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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