Books Received

Jordan S. Carroll. Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right. U of Minnesota P, 2024. 120 pp. $10 pbk, $4.95 ebk.Wessam Elmeligi. Dystopia in Arabic Speculative Fiction: A Poetics of Distress. Routlege, 2024. 194 pp. $180 hc, $54.99 pbk, $49.49 ebk.Martin Harris. Horror and Science Fiction Cinema and Society: American Culture and Politics in the Cold War and After Through the Projector Lens. Routledge, 2024. 254 pp. $160 hc, $49.99 pbk, $44.99 ebk.Jonathan Hay. Science Fiction and Posthumanism in the Anthropocene. Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. 240 pp. $151.15 hc, $120.92 ebk.Tom Idema. Stages of Transmutation: Science Fiction, Biology, and Environmental Posthumanism. Routledge, 2019. 176 pp. $180 hc, $54.99 pbk, $49.49 ebk.Cassandra L. Jones. Black Speculative Feminisms: Memory and Liberated Futures in Black Women’s Fiction. Ohio State UP, New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative, 2024. 120 pp. $99.95 hc, $29.95 pbk & ebk.Paul Kincaid. Keith Roberts’s Pavane: A Critical Companion. Palgrave, Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon, 2024. vii+86 pp. $37.99 hc, $32.99 ebk.Kaisa Kortekallio. Mutant Narratives in Ecological Science Fiction:Thinking with Embodied Estrangement. Bloomsbury, Posthumanism in Practice, 2023. x+215 pp. $167.95 hc, $58.50 pbk, $151.15 ebk.Li Qin. A Study of the History of Chinese Science Fiction Literature in the Past Century. Beijing: The Commercial Press, 2023. 517 pp. ¥78 pbk.Paul March-Russell. J.G. Ballard’s Crash. Palgrave Macmillan, Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon, 2024. ix+89 pp. $44.99 hc, $37.99 ebk.Steven Shaviro. Fluid Futures: Science Fiction and Potentiality. Repeater, 2024. 424 pp. $24.95 pbk. & ebk.Graham B. Slater. Horizons of the Future: Science Fiction, Utopian Imagination, and the Politics of Education. Routledge, 2024. 144 pp. $180 hc, $48.99 pbk, $44.09 ebk.Douglas Brode, ed. Analyzing the Marvel Universe: Critical Essays on the Comics and Film Adaptations. McFarland, 2024. vi+245 pp. $49.95 pbk.Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Joshua Uchenna Omenga. Between Dystopias: The Road To Afropantheology. Caezik Books & OD Ekpeki Presents, 2023. 243 pp. $19.99 pbk.David Roche. Arrival. U of Texas P, 21St Century Film Essentials, 2024. 200 pp. $24.95 pbk & ebk.Miguel Sebastián-Martín. Thinking through High-Tech Hell: A Theory of the New Media Dystopia. Peter Lang, Ralahine Utopian Studies 35, 2024. xiv+384 pp. $60.95 pbk & ebk.Sherryl Vint, ed. The Cambridge Companion to American Utopian Literature and Culture Since 1945. Cambridge UP, 2024. xi+318 pp. $99.99 hc, $34.99 pbk.

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Jordan S. Carroll. Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right. U of Minnesota P, 2024. 120 pp. $10 pbk, $4.95 ebk.Wessam Elmeligi. Dystopia in Arabic Speculative Fiction: A Poetics of Distress. Routlege, 2024. 194 pp. $180 hc, $54.99 pbk, $49.49 ebk.Martin Harris. Horror and Science Fiction Cinema and Society: American Culture and Politics in the Cold War and After Through the Projector Lens. Routledge, 2024. 254 pp. $160 hc, $49.99 pbk, $44.99 ebk.Jonathan Hay. Science Fiction and Posthumanism in the Anthropocene. Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. 240 pp. $151.15 hc, $120.92 ebk.Tom Idema. Stages of Transmutation: Science Fiction, Biology, and Environmental Posthumanism. Routledge, 2019. 176 pp. $180 hc, $54.99 pbk, $49.49 ebk.Cassandra L. Jones. Black Speculative Feminisms: Memory and Liberated Futures in Black Women’s Fiction. Ohio State UP, New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative, 2024. 120 pp. $99.95 hc, $29.95 pbk & ebk.Paul Kincaid. Keith Roberts’s Pavane: A Critical Companion. Palgrave, Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon, 2024. vii+86 pp. $37.99 hc, $32.99 ebk.Kaisa Kortekallio. Mutant Narratives in Ecological Science Fiction:Thinking with Embodied Estrangement. Bloomsbury, Posthumanism in Practice, 2023. x+215 pp. $167.95 hc, $58.50 pbk, $151.15 ebk.Li Qin. A Study of the History of Chinese Science Fiction Literature in the Past Century. Beijing: The Commercial Press, 2023. 517 pp. ¥78 pbk.Paul March-Russell. J.G. Ballard’s Crash. Palgrave Macmillan, Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon, 2024. ix+89 pp. $44.99 hc, $37.99 ebk.Steven Shaviro. Fluid Futures: Science Fiction and Potentiality. Repeater, 2024. 424 pp. $24.95 pbk. & ebk.Graham B. Slater. Horizons of the Future: Science Fiction, Utopian Imagination, and the Politics of Education. Routledge, 2024. 144 pp. $180 hc, $48.99 pbk, $44.09 ebk.Douglas Brode, ed. Analyzing the Marvel Universe: Critical Essays on the Comics and Film Adaptations. McFarland, 2024. vi+245 pp. $49.95 pbk.Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Joshua Uchenna Omenga. Between Dystopias: The Road To Afropantheology. Caezik Books & OD Ekpeki Presents, 2023. 243 pp. $19.99 pbk.David Roche. Arrival. U of Texas P, 21St Century Film Essentials, 2024. 200 pp. $24.95 pbk & ebk.Miguel Sebastián-Martín. Thinking through High-Tech Hell: A Theory of the New Media Dystopia. Peter Lang, Ralahine Utopian Studies 35, 2024. xiv+384 pp. $60.95 pbk & ebk.Sherryl Vint, ed. The Cambridge Companion to American Utopian Literature and Culture Since 1945. Cambridge UP, 2024. xi+318 pp. $99.99 hc, $34.99 pbk.

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