The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction

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).

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