Uneven Futures by Sean Guynes - ISBN: 9780262543941
Paperback
SF visions offer survival strategies for a future of inequalities.

Uneven Futures

Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction

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  • Paperback

    360 pages

  • Release Date

    7 February 2023

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Summary

Essays on speculative/science fiction explore the futures that feed our most cherished fantasies and terrifying nightmares, while helping diverse communities devise new survival strategies for a tough millennium. The explosion in speculative/science fiction (SF) across different media from the late twentieth century to the present has compelled those in the field of SF studies to rethink the community’s identity, orientation, and stakes. In this edited collection, more than forty writers, cri…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262543941
ISBN-10:026254394X
Author:Sean Guynes, Ida Yoshinaga
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:360
Release Date:7 February 2023
Weight:369g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“A fascinating snapshot of what the science fiction community has become in the 2020s—as a multimedia genre, an area of academic study, a set of tropes to be made and remade by makers, or a form of political praxis.”
Los Angeles Review of Books

“An invigorating and wide-ranging intellectual wallop.”
H-Net Reviews

About The Author

Sean Guynes

Ida Yoshinaga is Assistant Professor of Science Fiction Film at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Sean Guynes is Acquiring Editor, Lever Press.

Gerry Canavan is Associate Professor of English at Marquette University. He is the author of Octavia E. Butler.

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