Introduction: The Future is Unwritten: Political Agency and Radical Change in a Science Fiction”
Judith Grant and Sean Parson
Part I: Collapse and Rebuilding
Chapter One: Dystopia, Apocalypse, and Other Things to Look Forward to: Reading for Radical Hope in the Fiction of Fear
Matthew Cole
Chapter Two: Mirror, Mirror: The Tragic Vision of Star TrekDiscovery
Libby Barringer
Chapter Three: Beginning Again: Jericho, Revolution, and Catastrophic Originalism
Ira Allen
Part II: Resistance and Survival
Chapter Four: “We Survived You”: Resisting Eugenic Imaginaries through Feminist Speculative Fiction
Jess Whatcott
Chapter Five: Wakanda Forever: Black Panther in Black Political Thought
Deborah Thompson
Chapter Six: A Politics of Drowning: Theorizing Action in the Anthropocene through JG Ballard’s The Drowned World
Chase Hobbs-Morgan
Part III: Reconstructing Our World: Space and Place
Chapter Seven: The Ambiguities of Critical Desire: Utopia and Heterotopia in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed and Samuel R. Delany’s Trouble on Triton
Michael Lipscomb
Chapter Eight: Politicizing Cities in China Miéville’s Speculative Fiction
Andrew Uzendoski and Caleb Gallemore
Chapter Nine: Stranger than Fiction: Silicon Valley and the Politics of Space Colonization
Emily Ray
Part IV: Reconstructing Ourselves: Identity and Agency
Chapter Ten: A Future is Female: Loving Animals and Scientific Romance
Claire E. Rasmussen
Chapter Eleven: Finding Liberation and Futurity in the Sentient Spaceships of Leckie, Chambers, and Okorafor
Laurie Ringer
Chapter Twelve: What Do We Lose When We Become Posthuman?: Paolo Bacigalupi’s “The People of Sand and Slag” and the Politics of Recognition
Michael Uhall