Speculative Fiction – alle Bücher und LPs

Ashumi Shah

The Mediaverse and Speculative Fiction Television

Some (web) television texts achieve immense commercial success. Certain commercially successful texts boast dedicated, creative, and exponentially growing fandoms. These fan communities engage in specific…

Jean Graham

The Sentient Tree in Speculative Fiction

This book interrogates the theme of vegetal sentience and consciousness in the form of trees that move purposefully and/or speak, a theme which appears in everything from classical mythology to twentieth …

Tomás Vergara

Alterity and Capitalism in Speculative Fiction

Speculative fiction has been traditionally studied in Marxist literary criticism, following Darko Suvin s paradigmatic model of science fiction, according to a hierarchical division of its multiple subgen…

E. Dawson Varughese

Post-Millennial Indian Speculative Fiction in English

Exploring expressions of 'Indianness' buried within and scattered across post-millennial Indian speculative fiction in English, this book asks questions around what it means to 'belong' to an India of 'no…

Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction

"Critical and cultural interrogations of African fiction, showcasing how each author's work engages with Afro-centered futurism. Through ethnographic reflections and intense scrutinies of African writing,…

Women of Horror and Speculative Fiction in Their Own Words

What makes science fiction genres better than others at challenging social conventions, especially gender? Are speculative works structured differently when addressed to traditionally under-portrayed indi…

Women of Horror and Speculative Fiction in Their Own Words

What makes science fiction genres better than others at challenging social conventions, especially gender? Are speculative works structured differently when addressed to traditionally under-portrayed indi…

Sang-Keun Yoo,

Speculative Orientalism: Asian Religions in New Wave Science Fiction

Examining the works of prominent New Wave science fiction authors from the 1950-160s, Sang-Keun Yoo highlights the underexplored connection between American science fiction and Asian religions, such as Ta…

Propaghandi

Potemkin City Limits

Lucy Lapinska

Some Body Like Me

As the world falls apart around them, piece by piece, Abigail Fuller spends humanity's final days looking after her husband David. But that's not true, not really. Abigail isn't David's wife. She's not e…

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. This volume is ded…

Jordan S. Carroll

Speculative Whiteness

Reveals the alt-right's project to claim science fiction and-by extension-the future Fascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films and literature as saying only white men have the imagi…

Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby

Speculative Everything, with a New Preface by the Authors

"Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. In Speculative Everything, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby propose a kind of design that is used as a tool to create not o…

Bora Chung,

Der Fluch des Hasen

Auf der Shortlist für den International Booker Prize Der Fluch des Hasen entzieht sich jeder literarischen Schublade und verwischt auf einfallsreiche Weise die Grenzen zwischen den Genres, ob magischer R…

Bora Chung,

Der Fluch des Hasen

»Wir tun immer so, als wäre alles vollkommen normal. Aber das Leben ist nicht normal.« Bora Chung - Auf der Shortlist für den International Booker Prize: Bora Chungs »Der Fluch des Hasen« entzieht sich j…

Mayurika Chakravorty,

Fantasy and the Politics of Subversion

Focusing on the corpus of Fantasy texts written in colonial India during the late 19th and early 20th century, this book explores the origins, motivations, nature and role of speculative writing around th…

Shannon Gibney

The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be

Part memoir, part speculative fiction, The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be explores the often surreal experience of growing up as a mixed-Black transracial adoptee.

China Miéville

The City & The City

A brilliantly original masterpiece of speculative fiction, fusing weird fiction with the police procedural genre, from one of the world's most decorated SF writers.

Austin Lim

Horror on the Brain

In this fascinating exploration of fear and madness, neuroscientist Dr. Austin Lim recounts psychology's most bizarre and haunting real-life cases alongside famous speculative fiction that stretched that …