Despite the occasional upsurge of climate change scepticism amongst Anglophone conservative politicians and journalists, there is still a near-consensus amongst climate scientists that current levels of atmospheric greenhouse gas are sufficient to alter global weather patterns t…
Locating Science Fiction is a ground breaking and potentially paradigm-shifting book, a major intervention into contemporary theoretical debates about SF. Academic literary criticism has tended to locate SF primarily in relation to the older genre of utopia; fan criticism primar…
Science fiction is seen as a realm of thought-experiment in which the trope of Empire has become an archetype, and this work considers how ideas of empire and colonialism have formed the different science fictions of the late 19th century, post-war Britain, Cold War America and …