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 VintPart I: Science fiction histories 1 North African, Middle Eastern, Arabic and diasporic science fiction Sinéad Murphy2 The Copernican revolutionAdam Roberts3 Indigenous futurisms Nicole Kuʻuleinapuananiolikoʻawapuhimelemeleolani Furtado4 Art as science fictionAndrew M. Butler5 Nineteenth-century western science fictionArthur B. Evans6 Latin American science fictionRubén R. Mendoza7 Russian- language science fiction Brittany R. Roberts8 South Asian science fictionBodhisattva Chattopadhyay9 Afrodiasporic speculative fictionNicola Hunte10 Anglophone print fiction: Children’s and young adult Emily Midkiff11 AfrofuturismRone Shavers12 Science fiction illustration John Timberlake13 Japanese science fiction Baryon Tensor Posadas14 Science fiction film, 1895– 1950J.P. Telotte15 Chinese science fiction Wu Yan (translated by Joel Martinsen)16 Anglophone print fiction: The pulps to the New Wave Patrick B. Sharp17 Anglophone science fiction fandoms, 1920s– 2020s Robin Anne Reid18 Science fiction theatre Christos Callow, Jr.19 Radio and podcasts Karen Hellekson20 Comics from the 1930s to the 1960s Michael Goodrum21 Science fiction film and television: The 1950s to the 1970s Lincoln Geraghty22 Video, installation art and short science fiction filmDan Byrne- Smith23 Anglophone print fiction: The New Wave to the new millenniumRebecca McWilliams Ojala Ballard24 Comics since the late 1960s Martin Lund25 Transmedia and franchise science fictionDan Hassler- Forest26 Science fiction film and television: The 1980s and 1990s Sharon Sharp27 South Korean science fiction Sunyoung Park28 Twenty- first century filmBarry Keith Grant29 Twenty- first century television Sherryl Vint30 Anglophone print fiction: The new millennium John Rieder31 Diasporic Latinx futurisms Taryne Jade TaylorPart II: Science fiction praxis 32 Advertising, prototyping and Silicon Valley culture Jordan S. Carroll33 Alternate history Glyn Morgan34 Animal studies Anna Maria Grzybowska35 BiopoliticsSherryl Vint36 Climate crisis and environmental humanities Melody Jue37 Critical ethnic studies Christopher T. Fan38 Digital cultures Elizabeth Callaway39 Disability studies Josefine Wälivaara40 DIY science fiction Jonathan Alexander41 Economics and financialisation Hugh C. O’Connell42 Empire Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee43 Energy humanities Rhys Williams44 Feminisms Rebecca J. Holden45 Game studies Paweł Frelik46 Geography, urban design and architecture Amy Brookes47 Marxism Gerry Canavan48 Medical humanities Anna McFarlane and Gavin Miller49 New materialism Alison Sperling50 Post/ trans/ human Veronica Hollinger51 Queer and trans theory Beyond Gender Research Collective52 Science fiction tourismBrooks Landon53 Social activism and science fiction Shelley Streeby54 Sonic studies Erik Steinskog55 Utopian studiesKatie Stone