Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction (Carrington Andr M.)(Paperback)

Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction (Carrington Andr M.)(Paperback)

In Speculative Blackness, Andr M. Carrington analyzes the highly racialized genre of speculative fiction--including science fiction, fantasy, and utopian works, along with their fan cultures--to illustrate the relationship between genre conventions in media and the meanings ascribed to blackness

Classic Science Fiction (Editors of Canterbury Classics)(Paperback)

Classic works of speculative fiction from the earliest masters of the genre. Classic Science Fiction includes nine stories from masters of early science fiction: H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, Fitz James O'Brien, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Stanley G

Ambivalent Childhoods: Speculative Futures and the Psychic Life of the Child (Breslow Jacob)(Paperback)

Explores childhood in relation to blackness, transfeminism, queerness, and deportability to interrogate what 'the child' makes possibleThe concept of childhood contains many contested and ambivalent meanings that have extraordinary implications, particularly for those staking their claim for

Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility (Lothian Alexis)(Paperback)

Finalist, 2019 Locus Award for Nonfiction, presented by the Locus Science Fiction FoundationTraverses the history of imagined futures from the 1890s to the 2010s, interweaving speculative visions of gender, race, and sexuality from literature, film, and digital media Old Futures explores the

Speculative Japan: Outstanding Tales of Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy (Van Troyer Gene)(Paperback)

The first book in an ongoing series, Speculative Japan presents a selection of outstanding works of Japanese science fiction and fantasy in English translation... and a glimpse into new worlds of the imagination. It was first released at Nippon 2007, the 65th World Science Fiction Convention in

Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)Ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction (Schalk Sami)(Paperback)

In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds-the intertwinement of the mental and the physical-in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability. Bridging black feminist theory with disability studies, Schalk demonstrates

Plants in Science Fiction: Speculative Vegetation (Bishop Katherine E.)(Pevná vazba)

Plants in Science Fiction, the first-ever volume on plants (and fungi) in science fiction, allows us to speculate further on what - or who - plant life may be while exploring how we understand ourselves in relation to the complex world of

Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology (VanderMeer Ann)(Paperback)

Sisters of the Revolution gathers a highly curated selection of feminist speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, horror, and more) chosen by one of the most respected editorial teams in speculative literature today, the award-winning Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. Including stories from the 1970s

Inhabitable Infrastructures: Science Fiction or Urban Future? (Lim Cj)(Paperback)

Inhabitable Infrastructures: Science fiction or urban future?, the follow up to Food City and Smartcities and Eco-Warriors, from one of the world s leading urban design and architectural thinkers, explores the potential of climate changerelated multi-use infrastructures that address the

Future of Another Timeline (Newitz Annalee)(Paperback / softback)

The Future of Another Timeline is stunning new stand-alone science fiction novel from Annalee Newitz, a founding editor of io9 and Lambda LGBTQ Award-winning author of

The Art of Starving (Miller Sam J.)(Paperback)

Winner of the 2017 Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book 'Funny, haunting, beautiful, relentless, and powerful, The Art of Starving is a classic in the making.'--Book RiotMatt hasn't eaten in days. His stomach stabs and twists inside, pleading for a meal,

Memory of Water (Itranta Emmi)(Paperback)

An amazing, award-winning speculative fiction debut novel by a major new talent, in the vein of Ursula K. Le Guin.Global warming has changed the world's geography and its politics. Wars are waged over water, and China rules Europe, including the Scandinavian Union, which is occupied by the power

Latchkey: Book Two of the Archivist Wasp Saga (Kornher-Stace Nicole)(Paperback)

'Near-future science-fiction crimes bleed into dystopian horror centuries later in a wildly imaginative genre-hybrid sequel to Archivist Wasp...Excruciating, cathartic, and triumphant.' --Kirkus Reviews, starred review'I loved Archivist Wasp, and Latchkey surpasses it in every way.' --Amal

Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures (Brock Jr Andr)(Paperback)

An explanation of the digital practices of the black Internet From BlackPlanet to #BlackGirlMagic, Distributed Blackness places blackness at the very center of internet culture. Andr Brock Jr. claims issues of race and ethnicity as inextricable from and formative of contemporary digital culture in

Typeset in the Future: Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies (Addey Dave)(Pevná vazba)

Reality Dysfunction (Hamilton Peter F.)(Paperback / softback)

The first book in this thrilling far-future adventure from this bestselling science-fiction

The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics (Chude-Sokei Louis)(Paperback)

Investigates the parallel and intertwined histories of race, technology, and science fiction The Sound of Culture explores the histories of race and technology in a world made by slavery, colonialism, and industrialization. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and moving through to the

Things of Darkness: Economies of Race and Gender in Early Modern England (Hall Kim F.)(Paperback)

The Ethiope, the tawny Tartar, the woman blackamoore, and knotty Africanisms--allusions to blackness abound in Renaissance texts. Kim F. Hall's eagerly awaited book is the first to view these evocations of blackness in the contexts of sexual politics, imperialism, and slavery in early modern

Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction (Gilbert-Hickey Meghan)(Paperback)

Contributions by Malin Alkestrand, Joshua Yu Burnett, Sean P. Connors, Jill Coste, Meghan Gilbert-Hickey, Miranda A. Green-Barteet, Sierra Hale, Kathryn Strong Hansen, Elizabeth Ho, Esther L. Jones, Sarah Olutola, Alex Polish, Zara Rix, Susan Tan, and Roberta Seelinger Trites Race in Young Adult

White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination (Row Jess)(Paperback)

A bold, incisive look at race and reparative writing in American fiction, by the author of Your Face in Mine White Flights is a meditation on whiteness in American fiction and culture from the end of the civil rights movement to the present. At the heart of the book, Jess Row ties 'white

Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness (Harrison Da'shaun L.)(Paperback)

**The 2022 Lammy Award Winner in Transgender Nonfiction**Exploring the intersections of Blackness, gender, fatness, health, and the violence of policing. To live in a body both fat and Black is to exist at the margins of a society that creates the conditions for anti-fatness as anti-Blackness

Ringworld (Niven Larry)(Paperback / softback)

Return to the classical hard-science fiction of the kind popular in the Golden

Judgment Night: A Selection of Science Fiction (Moore C.L.)(Paperback / softback)

Five dramatic novellas from the Golden Age of Science Fiction, in a striking new

Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness (Browne Simone)(Paperback)

In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted. She shows how contemporary surveillance technologies and practices are informed by the long history of racial formation and by the methods of policing