Introduction: It's the End of the World as We Know It—or So We
Hope
Ida Yoshinaga, Sean Guynes, and Gerry Canavan xi
I Emergence 1
1 Samuel R. Delany, "The Star Pit" (1965) / Moving On, As Far as
You Want 3
Kirin Wachter-Grene
2 Lionel Davidson, Under Plum Lake (1980) / YA Time Out of Joint
11
Rebekah Sheldon
3 Brian Henson and Rockne O'Bannon, Farscape (1999–2003) / Radical
Compassion 19
Emmet Asher-Perrin
4 Shovon Chowdhury, The Competent Authority / CTRL+ALT+DELETE
Humanity 27
Sami Ahmad Khan
5 Sofia Samatar, "How to Get Back to the Forest" (2014) / Shaping
and Sharing Feelings 37
Steven Shaviro
6 Tade Thompson, Wormwood Trilogy (2016–2019) / Africanfuturism's
Salvage Utopianism 47
Hugh Charles O'Connell
7 Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, The OA (2016–2019) / Science
Fiction's Affective Praxis 57
Sherryl Vint
8 Craig Laurance Gidney, A Spectral Hue (2019) / #OwnVoices and
Intergroup Solidarity 65
Bogi Takács
9 Jonathan Hickman, House of X and Powers of X (2019) / Ecological
Activism and Radical Sovereignty 73
David M. Higgins
10 Rebecca Sugar, Steven Universe Future (2019–2020) / Camp
Redemption 81
B. Pladek
II Rupture 89
11 Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland (1884) / Unflattening Scientific
Worldviews 91
Karen Lord
12 Karel Capek, War with the Newts (1936) / Comic Jeremiad
Journalism 99
John Rieder
13 Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (1970) / Remaking the Bond
105
Sean Guynes
14 Joan Slonczewski, A Door into Ocean (1986) / Peaceful Ecological
Defiance 111
Gwyneth Jones
15 SCP Foundation (2008–) / Collaborative Canons 119
Andrew Ferguson
16 Kléber Mendonça Filho, Recife Frio (2009) / Visualizing
Disparity in Brazil 127
Alfredo Suppia and M. Elizabeth Ginway
17 Virginia Grise, blu (2011) / Queer Latinx Aesthetics of
Apocalypse 135
Cathryn Merla-Watson
18 Claire Coleman, Terra Nullius (2017) / Aboriginal SF's Realities
of the Imaginary 143
Allanah Hunt
19 Liu Cixin (2000) and Frant Gwo (2019), The Wandering Earth /
Deimperializing Empire 153
Nathaniel Isaacson
Interlude 163
20 Science Fiction Studies 3.0: Re-networking Our Hive Mind 165
Ida Yoshinaga
III Transformation 177
21 Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974) / Permanent Feminist
Revolution 179
Kim Stanley Robinson
22 Joanna Russ, We Who Are About To... (1976) / There Is No Planet
B 187
Farah Mendlesohn
23 Eleanor Arnason, Ring of Swords (1993) / Queer-Feminist Peace
Work 193
Veronica Hollinger
24 Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam Trilogy (2003–2013) / Interspecies
Coalition-Building 201
Alison Sperling
25 Buried without Ceremony, The Quiet Year (2013) and The Deep
Forest (2014) / Mechanics of Resolution 207
Brent Ryan Bellamy
26 Undead Labs, State of Decay (2013) / Crafting Community at the
End of the World 215
Cameron Kunzelman
27 Hideo Kojima, Death Stranding (2019) / Reconnecting in the Time
of Climate Change 221
Darshana Jayemanne, Brendan Keogh, and Ben Abraham
28 Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon, Octavia E. Butler's
Parable of the Sower (2020) / Links to Our Future-Present 229
Ayana Jamieson
IV Revolution 239
29 Pauline Hopkins, Of One Blood (1902) / Antiracism and the
Counternarrative of the Black Fantastic 241
Dexter Gabriel
30 Alan Moore, David Gibbons, and John Higgins, Watchment, no. 11
(1987) / Autonomous Collectivity against the State 249
Gerry Canavan
31 Tobias Buckell, Sly Mongoose (2008) / Inhabiting Hostile Futures
257
Nicola Hunte
32 Tochi Onyebuchi, Riot Baby (2019) / Black lives Matter SF
265
Isiah Lavender III
33 Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita, Lunar Braceros: 2125–2148
(2009) / Imagination against Resistance 275
Lysa Rivera
34 Boualem Sansal, 2084: The End of the World (2015) / Resisting
Censorship 285
Ouissal Harize
35 The Russo Brothers, Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
and Captain America: Civil War (2016) / The Patriotism of Raising
Hell 293
Sarah Marrs
36 Princess Nokia, "Brujas" (2016) / Santería's Decolonial
Futurisms 303
Taryne Jade Taylor
37 Lehua Parker, One Truth, No Lie (2016) / Indigenous Youth
Activism through Mo'olelo and YA Literature 309
Caryn Lesuma
38 Kim Stanley Robinson, New York 2140 (2017) / Logistic Utopia
317
Fabio Fernandes
39 Na Kia'i Mauna, Ka Pu'uhonua o Pu'uhuluhulu at the Mauna Kea
Access Road (2019) / An SF Sovereignty Story 325
Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada
Contributors 333
Index 343
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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