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ADifferentTrek RadicalGeographiesofDeepSpaceNine DavidK.Seitz
DS9 extendedStarTrek’straditionof criticalsocialcommentarybutdidsoby transgressingmanyofStarTrek’sprevious taboos. ADifferent“Trek” isthefirst scholarlymonographdedicatedtoa criticalinterpretationofDS9’sallegorical world-building.If DS9 hasbeenvindicated aesthetically,thisbookarguesthatitsprophetic,place-based critiquesof1990sU.S.Politicshavebeenvindicatedpolitically, toadegreemostscholarsandevenmanyfanshaveyettofully appreciate.
UNIVERSITYOFNEBRASKAPRESS
Series:CulturalGeographies+RewritingtheEarth
July202325photos,2tables,index346pp
9781496235428 £25.99 PB now£18.19
RaceintheMachine
ANovelAccount
QuincyThomasStewart
Presentsaworldwherethestoriesweuse toexplainraceallsimultaneouslyexist dictatingourinteractionsandinnermost beliefs.Thenamelessprotagonist,an enigmaticsocialmechanic,encountersa simplequeryinthecontextofan introductorylecture:"Whatexactlyis race?Andwhatisitinthecontextofthesocialmachine?"Race intheMachineweavesanutterlyuniqueandnuancedportrait ofraceinthemodernworld.
STANFORDUNIVERSITYPRESS
January2023286pp
9781503631229 £21.99 HB now£15.39
SellingScienceFiction Cinema
MakingandMarketingaGenre
J.P.Telotte
Reconstructsstudioeffortstomarketa promisingnewgenreandshowshow salesmanshipinfluencedwhatthatgenre wouldbecome.Telotteusessuchfilms as TheThingfromAnother World, ForbiddenPlanet,and TheBlob,as wellastheinfluxofJapanesemonstermovies,toexplorethe shiftingwaysinwhichtheindustryreframedtheSFgenreto markettono-longerstaticaudienceexpectations.
UNIVERSITYOFTEXASPRESS
August202339b&wphotos192pp
9781477327333 £40.00 HB now£28.00
Afrofuturisms
Ecology,Humanity,andFrancophone CulturalExpressions
IsaacVincentJoslin
Joslinidentifiesthecontoursand modalitiesofaspeculative,futurist sciencefictionrootedinthesociocultural andgeopoliticalcontextofcontinental Africanimaginaries.Beginningwith genderidentityandculturalpluralityas thebasesforaninherentlymulticultural society,thisprojecttracestheessentialroleoflanguageand narrativityinprocessingtraumasthatstemfromtheviolenceof colonialandneocolonialinterventionsinAfricansocieties.
OHIOUNIVERSITYPRESS
Series:ResearchinInternationalStudies,AfricaSeries
April2023324pp
9780896803305 £32.00 PB now£22.40
RayBradburyUnbound
JonathanR.Eller
FinalistfortheLocusAward,Nonfictioncategory, 2015.
Ellercontinuesthestorybeguninhis acclaimed BecomingRayBradbury, followingthebelovedauthor'sevolution fromashortstorymastertoamultimediacreativeforceandoutspoken visionary.Informedbymanyyearsof interviewswithBradburyaswellasan unprecedentedaccesstopersonalpapersandprivate collections,RayBradburyUnboundprovidesthedefinitive portraitofhowalegendaryAmericanauthorhelpedshapehis times.
UNIVERSITYOFILLINOISPRESS
August202024b&wphotos360pp
9780252085628 £21.99 PB now£15.39
WritingOurExtinction AnthropoceneFictionandVertical Science
PatrickWhitmarsh
Mid-twentieth-centurydevelopmentsin scienceandtechnologyproducednew understandingsandimagesoftheplanet thatcirculatedtheglobe.Whitmarsh analyzespostwarnarrativefictionsthat describe,depict,orexpresstheearth fromaboveandbelow,revealingtheways thatliteraturehasengagedthishistoryofverticalscienceand linkedittoincreasingenvironmentalprecarity,uptoand includingtheextinctionofhumankind.
STANFORDUNIVERSITYPRESS
Series:Post*45
April2023228pp
9781503635548 £21.99 PB now£15.39
TheModernMastersofScienceFictionseriesisdevotedtobooksthatsurveytheworkof individualauthorswhocontinuetoinspireandadvancesciencefiction.
ArthurC.Clarke
GaryWestfahl
ExaminesClarke'sremarkablecareer, rangingfromhisforgottenjuveniliatothe passageshecompletedforafinalnovel. AsWestfahlexplains,Clarke’sscience fictionofferedoriginalperspectiveson subjectslikenewinventions,spacetravel andreligion.WestfahlarguesthatClarke’s reticentandsolitarycharactersrepresent hismostsignificantpredictionofthe future,astheyembodytheincreasinglycommonlifestyleof peopleinthetwenty-firstcentury.
UNIVERSITYOFILLINOISPRESS
Series:ModernMastersofScienceFiction
June2018224pp
9780252083594 £21.99 PB now£15.39
IainM.Banks
PaulKincaid
The1987publicationofIainM.Banks's ConsiderPhlebashelpedtriggertheBritish renaissanceofradicalhardsciencefiction andinfluencedagenerationofNewSpace Operamasters.Thisisthefirststudyof IainM.Bankstoexploretheconfluenceof hisSFandliterarytechniquesand sensibilities.Offersnewinsightsononeof themostadmiredfiguresincontemporary sciencefiction.
UNIVERSITYOFILLINOISPRESS
May2017208pp
9780252082504 £18.99 PB now£13.29
KimStanleyRobinson
RobertMarkley
Award-winningepicsliketheMarsTrilogy andgroundbreakingalternativehistories havebroughtKimStanleyRobinsontothe forefrontofcontemporarysciencefiction. RobertMarkleyexaminestheworksofan authorengagedwiththefundamental questionofhowwe—asindividuals,asa civilization,andasaspecies—mightgo forward.
UNIVERSITYOFILLINOISPRESS
Series:ModernMastersofScienceFiction
October2019248pp
9780252084584 £21.99 PB now£15.39
BrianW.Aldiss
PaulKincaid
Aldisswroteclassicsciencefictionnovels like ReportonProbabilityA and Hothouse.YetAldiss’sdiscomfortwith beingaguidingspiritoftheBritishNew Waveandhispursuitofmainstream successcharacterizedalifelong ambivalencetowardthegenre.Kincaid exploresthemanycontradictionsthat underlaythedistinctivequalitiesof Aldiss’swriting.
UNIVERSITYOFILLINOISPRESS
Series:ModernMastersofScienceFiction
July2022216pp
9780252086557 £21.99 PB now£15.39
JoannaRuss
GwynethJones
JoannaRuss'sgroundbreakingscience fictiongrewoutofabeliefthatthegenre wasidealforexpressingradicalthought. Heressaysandcriticism,meanwhile, helpedshapethefieldandstillexercisea powerfulinfluenceinbothSFand feministliterarystudies.CriticGwyneth JonesoffersanewappraisalofRuss's workandideas.
UNIVERSITYOFILLINOISPRESS
Series:ModernMastersofScienceFiction
August2019224pp
9780252084478 £18.99 PB now£13.29
RogerZelazny
F.BrettCox
Zelaznycombinedpoeticprosewith fearlessliteraryambitiontobecomeone ofthemostinfluentialsciencefiction writersofthe1960s.Yetmanycritics foundhislaternovelsunderachieving. Throughout,Coxanalyzesaspectsof Zelazny'sart,fromhispreferencefor poeticallyalienatedprotagoniststothe wayshisplotsreflectedhisdetermined individualism.Clear-eyedanddetailed, RogerZelazny providesanup-to-datereconsiderationofan often-misunderstoodSFmaverick.
UNIVERSITYOFILLINOISPRESS
May2021224pp
9780252085758 £23.99 PB now£16.79
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