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Wars We Never Fought

A collection of 16 essays examining how armed conflict functions as a subject, theme, metaphor, symbol, or plot device in works of science fiction, fantasy, and other speculative fictions.

Jonathan Eburne

Exploded Views

"In Exploded Views, Jonathan P. Eburne returns to five previously abandoned essays with the metaphorical tool of the exploded-view diagram, expanding them into entirely new, hybrid forms that unpack …

Terry Bisson

The Outspoken and the Incendiary

In-depth, intense, insightful.For more than a decade, radical science fiction author and activist journalist Terry Bisson interviewed some of the most provocative and outspoken authors of the twentieth an…

Queens in Antiquity and the Present

This interdisciplinary volume explores the methodological and theoretical approaches to studying queens in the ancient Mediterranean world.

Winter in the City

The city.Noisy, crowded, and ever in motion, the city can be more than a setting-it can be a character, as nuanced and as fickle as a human being, with as many traits and quirks as the best mapped-out cha…

Mayurika Chakravorty,

Fantasy and the Politics of Subversion

A study of the origins, nature and role of fantasy literature in early 19th century colonial India, this book explores how speculative writing was produced in the context of, and in resistance to, empire.

Propaghandi

Potemkin City Limits

Shana Leodar Ye

Queer Chimerica

Examining the intersections of queer theory and the rise of China to reveal how queerness is "produced"

Calvyn Clarence du Toit

Object Spirituality

Object Spirituality critically examines the implications of the emerging philosophical movement of Speculative Realism for the study of spirituality and theology. This work challenges the traditional theo…

Chronicles of a Global City

"Chronicles of a Global City turns Bengaluru inside out to examine its "world-city" transformation that stimulated rapid urbanization and unbounded growth. Grounded in long-term ethnographi…

K. M. Fajardo

Local Heavens

A speculative romance reimagining of The Great Gatsby set in 2075 New York, perfect for fans of Emily St John Mandel, Natasha Pulley's The Mars House and Chain-Gang All-Stars. 'Not just a cyberpunk reinve…

David J. Vazquez

Decolonial Environmentalisms

A critical examination of the environmental movement and the Latinx voices that are shifting how to think about a future shaped by climate change.In Decolonial Environmentalisms, David VÁzquez argues that…

David J Vázquez

Decolonial Environmentalisms

A critical examination of the environmental movement and the Latinx voices that are shifting how to think about a future shaped by climate change.

Mimoun Azizi

The Cry from the Seraglio

Anyone who views Islamic philosophy solely from a European perspective can only arrive at incorrect conclusions, because they are measuring an unfamiliar philosophy with European thought categories. There…

Karen Trimble Alliaume, Maryellen Davis Collett

Blurring the Boundaries of Religion and Popular Culture

Employing theoretical lenses of implicit theology and secular spirituality, this book blurs the boundaries between religion and popular culture to develop meaning-making in science fiction, fantasy, and h…

Shirin Assa, Mario Faust-Scalisi, Xin Li,

Narrating the FutureS

Wanuri Kahiu's "Pumzi" is an Afrofuturist movie, addressing the consequences of climate change and subsequent wars. "Pumzi" disturbs to dream, turning memory into the elixier of future…

Propagandhi

Potemkin City Limits

Claire North

Slow Gods

'ASTONISHING AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING' Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of TimeFrom the million-copy-bestselling Claire North - one of the most original and dazzling voices in speculative fiction - com…

Jilly Gagnon

What If It's You?

A playful romantic comedy from the author of Love You, Mean It.