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A thought-provoking examination of sci-fi novels and films that invite audiences to contemplate humanity’s 'sorry fate from the vantage point of something other than human.' * Publishers Weekly * A vivacious and unrelenting confrontation with the consolations and desolations of contemporary science fiction from one of literary culture’s most insightful and wide-ranging polymaths, Michael Bérubé’s The Ex-Human is by turns brilliant, hilarious, despairing, and refusing despair. An absolute must-read. -- Gerry Canavan, author of <i>Octavia E. Butler</i> Are human beings worth saving? Michael Bérubé’s The Ex-Human views that question through the lens of science fiction. This is one of those rare and wonderful books that will engage aficionados and general readers together. Bérubé writes with conviction, clarity, and warmth—this is literary and cinematic analysis of the highest order, presented in a personal voice that always keeps you in the story. -- Leonard Cassuto, author of <i>Academic Writing as if Readers Matter</i> In The Ex-Human, Michael Bérubé compellingly engages on both the personal and academic level with the question of our dystopian contemporary, and what the reading of science fiction can bring to this debate. -- Roger Luckhurst, author of <i>Gothic: An Illustrated History</i> [Bérubé's] analyses are intensive yet fluid, variegated with a range of cultural, political, and personal references. Spirited and speculative, The Ex-Human showcases science fiction for its formidable and prescient nature. -- Meg Nola * Foreword Reviews *

A thought-provoking examination of sci-fi novels and films . . . sci-fi fanatics will appreciate Bérubé’s offbeat takes. * Publishers Weekly * A vivacious and unrelenting confrontation with the consolations and desolations of contemporary science fiction from one of literary culture’s most insightful and wide-ranging polymaths, Michael Bérubé’s The Ex-Human is by turns brilliant, hilarious, despairing, and refusing despair. An absolute must-read. -- Gerry Canavan, author of <i>Octavia E. Butler</i>

A thought-provoking examination of sci-fi novels and films . . . sci-fi fanatics will appreciate Bérubé’s offbeat takes. * Publishers Weekly *

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Michael Bérubé is an Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature at Pennsylvania State University and a former president of the Modern Language Association. He is the author of twelve books, including Life as We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child and What’s Liberal About the Liberal Arts? Classroom Politics and “Bias” in Higher Education.

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