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A Different Trek
Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine David K. Seitz DS9 extended Star Trek’s tradition of critical social commentary but did so by transgressing many of Star Trek’s previous taboos. A Different “Trek” is the first scholarly monograph dedicated to a critical interpretation of DS9’s allegorical world-building. If DS9 has been vindicated aesthetically, this book argues that its prophetic, place-based critiques of 1990s U.S. Politics have been vindicated politically, to a degree most scholars and even many fans have yet to fully appreciate. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS Series: Cultural Geographies + Rewriting the Earth July 2023 25 photos, 2 tables, index 346pp 9781496235428 £25.99 PB now £18.19
Race in the Machine A Novel Account Quincy Thomas Stewart
Presents a world where the stories we use to explain race all simultaneously exist dictating our interactions and innermost beliefs. The nameless protagonist, an enigmatic social mechanic, encounters a simple query in the context of an introductory lecture: "What exactly is race? And what is it in the context of the social machine?" Race in the Machine weaves an utterly unique and nuanced portrait of race in the modern world. STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS January 2023 286pp 9781503631229 £21.99 HB now £15.39
Selling Science Fiction Cinema Making and Marketing a Genre J. P. Telotte
Reconstructs studio efforts to market a promising new genre and shows how salesmanship influenced what that genre would become. Telotte uses such films as The Thing from Another World, Forbidden Planet, and The Blob, as well as the influx of Japanese monster movies, to explore the shifting ways in which the industry reframed the SF genre to market to no-longer static audience expectations. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS August 2023 39 b&w photos 192pp 9781477327333 £40.00 HB now £28.00
Afrofuturisms
Ecology, Humanity, and Francophone Cultural Expressions Isaac Vincent Joslin Joslin identifies the contours and modalities of a speculative, futurist science fiction rooted in the sociocultural and geopolitical context of continental African imaginaries. Beginning with gender identity and cultural plurality as the bases for an inherently multicultural society, this project traces the essential role of language and narrativity in processing traumas that stem from the violence of colonial and neocolonial interventions in African societies. OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Research in International Studies, Africa Series April 2023 324pp 9780896803305 £32.00 PB now £22.40
Ray Bradbury Unbound Jonathan R. Eller
Finalist for the Locus Award, Nonfiction category, 2015.
Eller continues the story begun in his acclaimed Becoming Ray Bradbury, following the beloved author's evolution from a short story master to a multimedia creative force and outspoken visionary. Informed by many years of interviews with Bradbury as well as an unprecedented access to personal papers and private collections, Ray Bradbury Unbound provides the definitive portrait of how a legendary American author helped shape his times. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS August 2020 24 b&w photos 360pp 9780252085628 £21.99 PB now £15.39
Writing Our Extinction Anthropocene Fiction and Vertical Science Patrick Whitmarsh
Mid-twentieth-century developments in science and technology produced new understandings and images of the planet that circulated the globe. Whitmarsh analyzes postwar narrative fictions that describe, depict, or express the earth from above and below, revealing the ways that literature has engaged this history of vertical science and linked it to increasing environmental precarity, up to and including the extinction of humankind. STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Post*45 April 2023 228pp 9781503635548 £21.99 PB now £15.39