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Author:   Mark Bould (University of the West of England, UK) ,  Andrew M. Butler (Canterbury Christ Church University, UK) ,  Sherryl Vint (University of California, Riverside, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   2nd edition
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367690687

ISBN 10:   0367690683
Pages:   516
Publication Date:   21 May 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Introduction Mark Bould, Andrew M. Butler and Sherryl Vint Part I: Science fiction histories 1 North African, Middle Eastern, Arabic and diasporic science fiction Sinéad Murphy 2 The Copernican revolution Adam Roberts 3 Indigenous futurisms Nicole Kuʻuleinapuananiolikoʻawapuhimelemeleolani Furtado 4 Art as science fiction Andrew M. Butler 5 Nineteenth-century western science fiction Arthur B. Evans 6 Latin American science fiction Rubén R. Mendoza 7 Russian- language science fiction Brittany R. Roberts 8 South Asian science fiction Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay 9 Afrodiasporic speculative fiction Nicola Hunte 10 Anglophone print fiction: Children’s and young adult Emily Midkiff 11 Afrofuturism Rone Shavers 12 Science fiction illustration John Timberlake 13 Japanese science fiction Baryon Tensor Posadas 14 Science fiction film, 1895– 1950 J.P. Telotte 15 Chinese science fiction Wu Yan (translated by Joel Martinsen) 16 Anglophone print fiction: The pulps to the New Wave Patrick B. Sharp 17 Anglophone science fiction fandoms, 1920s– 2020s Robin Anne Reid 18 Science fiction theatre Christos Callow, Jr. 19 Radio and podcasts Karen Hellekson 20 Comics from the 1930s to the 1960s Michael Goodrum 21 Science fiction film and television: The 1950s to the 1970s Lincoln Geraghty 22 Video, installation art and short science fiction film Dan Byrne- Smith 23 Anglophone print fiction: The New Wave to the new millennium Rebecca McWilliams Ojala Ballard 24 Comics since the late 1960s Martin Lund 25 Transmedia and franchise science fiction Dan Hassler- Forest 26 Science fiction film and television: The 1980s and 1990s Sharon Sharp 27 South Korean science fiction Sunyoung Park 28 Twenty- first century film Barry Keith Grant 29 Twenty- first century television Sherryl Vint 30 Anglophone print fiction: The new millennium John Rieder 31 Diasporic Latinx futurisms Taryne Jade Taylor Part II: Science fiction praxis 32 Advertising, prototyping and Silicon Valley culture Jordan S. Carroll 33 Alternate history Glyn Morgan 34 Animal studies Anna Maria Grzybowska 35 Biopolitics Sherryl Vint 36 Climate crisis and environmental humanities Melody Jue 37 Critical ethnic studies Christopher T. Fan 38 Digital cultures Elizabeth Callaway 39 Disability studies Josefine Wälivaara 40 DIY science fiction Jonathan Alexander 41 Economics and financialisation Hugh C. O’Connell 42 Empire Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee 43 Energy humanities Rhys Williams 44 Feminisms Rebecca J. Holden 45 Game studies Paweł Frelik 46 Geography, urban design and architecture Amy Brookes 47 Marxism Gerry Canavan 48 Medical humanities Anna McFarlane and Gavin Miller 49 New materialism Alison Sperling 50 Post/ trans/ human Veronica Hollinger 51 Queer and trans theory Beyond Gender Research Collective 52 Science fiction tourism Brooks Landon 53 Social activism and science fiction Shelley Streeby 54 Sonic studies Erik Steinskog 55 Utopian studies Katie Stone

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Mark Bould (he/ him) is Professor of Film and Literature at the University of the West of England. He is the recipient of the Science Fiction Research Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts’ Distinguished Scholarship Award. His books include This Is Not A Science Fiction Textbook (with Steven Shaviro; 2024), The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture (2021), M. John Harrison: Critical Essays (with Rhys Williams 2019), Solaris (2014), SF Now (with Rhys Williams 2014), Africa SF (2013), Science Fiction: The Routledge Film Guidebook (2012) and The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction (with Sherryl Vint; 2011). Andrew M. Butler (he/ him) is the author of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2019) and Solar Flares: Science Fiction in the 1970s (2012). He is Managing Editor of Extrapolation and chair of judges for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Sherryl Vint (she/ her) is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and Chair of English at the University of California, Riverside. She is the recipient of the Science Fiction Research Association’s Innovative Scholarship and Lifetime Achievement Awards. Her books include Programming the Future: Politics, Resistance, and Utopia in Contemporary Speculative TV (with Jonathan Alexander; 2022), Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction (2021), Science Fiction: The Essential Knowledge (2021), After the Human: Culture, Theory and Criticism in the 21st Century (2020), The Futures Industry (2015), Science Fiction and Cultural Theory: A Reader (2015) and Science Fiction: A Guide for the Perplexed (2014).

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