Sherryl Vint is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, and of English, at the University of California, Riverside. She is a recipient of the Science Fiction Research Association's Lifetime Achievement and Innovative Research awards. She has published widely on speculative fiction and culture, including most recently Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction (2021).

• List of figures; List of contributors; Introduction: utopianism in dark times Sherryl Vint; 1. Pandemics and the lesson of history Priscilla Wald; 2. American futures Phillip E. Wegner; 3. Engendering utopia: the force of gender and the limits of feminism Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor; 4. America and/as white supremacy Edward K. Chan and Patricia Ventura; 5. American spirituality Andrew Tate; 6. Black escapes and Black wishlands Jerry Rafiki Jenkins; 7. Latinx belonging in new world borders: Mestiz@ rhetoric and critical utopian/dystopian dialectics of ambivalence Rubén R. Mendoza, Ph.D.; 8. Educating desire: young adult utopian fiction Jonathan Alexander; 9. Utopia after American hegemony Peter Boxall; 10. Technological fantasies Matthew Wolf-Meyer; 11. Utopian spaces Roger Luckhurst; 12. Environmentalism and ecotopias Gerry Canavan; 13. Economic justice Hugh C. O'Connell; 14. Renewing democracy Mathias Nilges; 15. The time of new histories: utopian possibility in America's twenty-first century John Rieder; Works Cited; Index.

Sherryl Vint is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, and of English, at the University of California, Riverside. She is a recipient of the Science Fiction Research Association's Lifetime Achievement and Innovative Research awards. She has published widely on speculative fiction and culture, including most recently Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction (2021).

• List of figures; List of contributors; Introduction: utopianism in dark times Sherryl Vint; 1. Pandemics and the lesson of history Priscilla Wald; 2. American futures Phillip E. Wegner; 3. Engendering utopia: the force of gender and the limits of feminism Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor; 4. America and/as white supremacy Edward K. Chan and Patricia Ventura; 5. American spirituality Andrew Tate; 6. Black escapes and Black wishlands Jerry Rafiki Jenkins; 7. Latinx belonging in new world borders: Mestiz@ rhetoric and critical utopian/dystopian dialectics of ambivalence Rubén R. Mendoza, Ph.D.; 8. Educating desire: young adult utopian fiction Jonathan Alexander; 9. Utopia after American hegemony Peter Boxall; 10. Technological fantasies Matthew Wolf-Meyer; 11. Utopian spaces Roger Luckhurst; 12. Environmentalism and ecotopias Gerry Canavan; 13. Economic justice Hugh C. O'Connell; 14. Renewing democracy Mathias Nilges; 15. The time of new histories: utopian possibility in America's twenty-first century John Rieder; Works Cited; Index.

Sherryl Vint is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, and of English, at the University of California, Riverside. She is a recipient of the Science Fiction Research Association's Lifetime Achievement and Innovative Research awards. She has published widely on speculative fiction and culture, including most recently Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction (2021).

• List of figures; List of contributors; Introduction: utopianism in dark times Sherryl Vint; 1. Pandemics and the lesson of history Priscilla Wald; 2. American futures Phillip E. Wegner; 3. Engendering utopia: the force of gender and the limits of feminism Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor; 4. America and/as white supremacy Edward K. Chan and Patricia Ventura; 5. American spirituality Andrew Tate; 6. Black escapes and Black wishlands Jerry Rafiki Jenkins; 7. Latinx belonging in new world borders: Mestiz@ rhetoric and critical utopian/dystopian dialectics of ambivalence Rubén R. Mendoza, Ph.D.; 8. Educating desire: young adult utopian fiction Jonathan Alexander; 9. Utopia after American hegemony Peter Boxall; 10. Technological fantasies Matthew Wolf-Meyer; 11. Utopian spaces Roger Luckhurst; 12. Environmentalism and ecotopias Gerry Canavan; 13. Economic justice Hugh C. O'Connell; 14. Renewing democracy Mathias Nilges; 15. The time of new histories: utopian possibility in America's twenty-first century John Rieder; Works Cited; Index.