Science fiction and socialism have always had a close relationship. Many sf novelists and filmmakers are leftists. Others examine explicit or implicit Marxist concerns.  As a genre, sf is ideally suited to critiquing the present through its explorations of the social and political possibilities of the future. This is the first collection to combine analyses of sf literature and films within a broader overview of Marxist theorisations of and critical perspectives on the genre.   This is an accessible and lively introduction for anyone studying the politics of sf, covering a rich variety of examples from Weimar cinema to mainstream Hollywood films, and novelists from Jules Verne and H.G. Wells to Kim Stanley Robinson, Ken MacLeod and Charles Stross.

Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction (Marxism and Culture)

Literature & Fiction

China Miéville

Mark Bould

History & Criticism

Pluto Press

The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction (Routledge Concise Histories of Literature)

Sherryl Vint

Routledge

A collection of scholarly articles, interviews, reviews related to African and Africa diasporic genre fiction, including analysis and discussion of work by Mohammed Dib, Lauren Buekes, Nnedi Okorafor, Sun Ra, Marvel Comics T'Challa, and others.

Africa SF

PATRICK B. SHARP

Lisa Yaszek

Malisa Kurtz

Noah Tsika

Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum

Marleen Barr

Grace Dillon (Anishinaabe)

Lisa Dowdall

Neil Easterbrook

De Witt Douglas Kilgore

John Rieder

Gerry Canavan

Paradoxa

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