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Higgins's thoroughly researched, well-grounded analysis of the science fictional roots of 'imperial masochism' is both timely and persuasive. It should become an important reference for work on Anglophone science fiction after WWII, and on the growth of neoliberal ideology and right-wing conspiracy theory in the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. --John Rieder, University of Hawai'i at Manoa In reading Reverse Colonization, we discover the staggering extent to which the contemporary American political imagination--on all sides--has been furnished by science fiction. Higgins opens an exciting new direction for scholarship in exploring how and why science fiction's images and fantasies have been so adaptable and so powerful. --Scott Selisker, author, Human Programming: Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom

""Higgins's thoroughly researched, well-grounded analysis of the science fictional roots of 'imperial masochism' is both timely and persuasive. It should become an important reference for work on Anglophone science fiction after WWII, and on the growth of neoliberal ideology and right-wing conspiracy theory in the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.""--John Rieder, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa ""Reverse Colonization covers a vast range of real-world examples, primary text analysis, and critical theory very quickly and efficiently. . . . This pace allows Higgins to make thought-provoking connections and bring together a number of seemingly disparate ideas in order to challenge the reader to question their own modes of reading. It is not a text one would browse quickly, but, instead, one that is meant to be read, pondered, digested, and read again to consider new ideas, connections, or kernels of thought. It is certainly one that I look forward to reading again in the near future.""--Fafnir, Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research ""Reverse Colonization offers a fascinating look into the process by which such stories are generated and transformed into cultural references and societal roadmaps. . . . a pleasure to read: wide-ranging, informative, and full of twists and ironies.""--Los Angeles Review of Books ""In reading Reverse Colonization, we discover the staggering extent to which the contemporary American political imagination--on all sides--has been furnished by science fiction. Higgins opens an exciting new direction for scholarship in exploring how and why science fiction's images and fantasies have been so adaptable and so powerful.""--Scott Selisker, author, Human Programming: Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom

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David M. Higgins is senior editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books. He teaches in the English department at Inver Hills Community College. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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