Sherryl Vint is professor of media and cultural studies and of English at the University of California, Riverside. Her books include Science Fiction: A Guide for the Perplexed (2014) and Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction (2021). She is an editor of Science Fiction Studies and the recipient of the Science Fiction Research Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award.Jonathan Alexander is Chancellor’s Professor of English and Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. His many books include Writing Youth: Young Adult Fiction as Literacy Sponsorship (2017) and the Creep Trilogy of critical memoirs, and he is the YA editor for and a frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books.

From the post-9/11 Battlestar Galactica to Mr. Robot, from questions of neoliberalization and political polarization to surveillance society and the war on terror, Vint and Alexander's Programming the Future is an exemplary study of twenty-first-century science fiction television as seen through the crisis of U.S. democracy.

• Introduction1. The Changing Shape of Science Fiction Television2. Inventing Science Fiction Television as Political Narrative3. 9/11 and Its Aftermaths: Threats of Invasion4. American Civil Wars5. Desiring a Different Future: The 100 and The Expanse6. Rebooting Democracy and Mr. RobotConclusion: Democracy in CrisisNotesBibliographyFilmographyIndex

Sherryl Vint is professor of media and cultural studies and of English at the University of California, Riverside. Her books include Science Fiction: A Guide for the Perplexed (2014) and Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction (2021). She is an editor of Science Fiction Studies and the recipient of the Science Fiction Research Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award.Jonathan Alexander is Chancellor’s Professor of English and Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. His many books include Writing Youth: Young Adult Fiction as Literacy Sponsorship (2017) and the Creep Trilogy of critical memoirs, and he is the YA editor for and a frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books.

From the post-9/11 Battlestar Galactica to Mr. Robot, from questions of neoliberalization and political polarization to surveillance society and the war on terror, Vint and Alexander's Programming the Future is an exemplary study of twenty-first-century science fiction television as seen through the crisis of U.S. democracy.

• Introduction1. The Changing Shape of Science Fiction Television2. Inventing Science Fiction Television as Political Narrative3. 9/11 and Its Aftermaths: Threats of Invasion4. American Civil Wars5. Desiring a Different Future: The 100 and The Expanse6. Rebooting Democracy and Mr. RobotConclusion: Democracy in CrisisNotesBibliographyFilmographyIndex

Sherryl Vint is professor of media and cultural studies and of English at the University of California, Riverside. Her books include Science Fiction: A Guide for the Perplexed (2014) and Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction (2021). She is an editor of Science Fiction Studies and the recipient of the Science Fiction Research Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award.Jonathan Alexander is Chancellor’s Professor of English and Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. His many books include Writing Youth: Young Adult Fiction as Literacy Sponsorship (2017) and the Creep Trilogy of critical memoirs, and he is the YA editor for and a frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books.

From the post-9/11 Battlestar Galactica to Mr. Robot, from questions of neoliberalization and political polarization to surveillance society and the war on terror, Vint and Alexander's Programming the Future is an exemplary study of twenty-first-century science fiction television as seen through the crisis of U.S. democracy.

• Introduction1. The Changing Shape of Science Fiction Television2. Inventing Science Fiction Television as Political Narrative3. 9/11 and Its Aftermaths: Threats of Invasion4. American Civil Wars5. Desiring a Different Future: The 100 and The Expanse6. Rebooting Democracy and Mr. RobotConclusion: Democracy in CrisisNotesBibliographyFilmographyIndex