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        LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy

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        Saving Utopia

        Saving Utopia

        Saving Utopia

        Imagining Hopeful Futures in Dystopian Times

        by Joe P. L. Davidson

        ISBN: 9780262554046

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 10, 2026

        How utopian stories have preserved the vision of a better world in a cultural climate dominated by dystopia.
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        An Exploration Of Literature's Dungeons from The Bibliothecha to Bastionland

        Edited by Stu Horvath

        ISBN: 9781913689957

        Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

        Pub Date: October 28, 2025

        A bibliographic deep dive into the subterranean imaginary that traces the fascination of underground spaces.
        Selected Nonfiction, 1962–2007

        Selected Nonfiction, 1962–2007

        Selected Nonfiction, 1962–2007

        by J. G. Ballard

        Edited by Mark Blacklock

        Foreword by Tom McCarthy

        ISBN: 9780262553940

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 7, 2025

        J. G. Ballard's collected nonfiction from 1962 to 2007, mapping the cultural obsessions, experiences, and insights of one of the most original minds of his generation.
        This Is Not a Science Fiction Textbook

        This Is Not a Science Fiction Textbook

        This Is Not a Science Fiction Textbook

        Edited by Mark Bould and Steven Shaviro

        ISBN: 9781915983091

        Publisher: Goldsmiths Press

        Pub Date: February 6, 2024

        Science fiction as a vital bridge between technoscience and culture, an early warning system, a method for imagining differently.
        Speculation

        Speculation

        Speculation

        Edited by Marina Vishmidt

        ISBN: 9780262545334

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: June 20, 2023

        A wide-ranging investigation of what speculation is, and what is at stake for artistic, curatorial, critical, and institutional practices in relating to their own speculative character.
        Uneven Futures

        Uneven Futures

        Uneven Futures

        Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction

        Edited by Ida Yoshinaga, Sean Guynes and Gerry Canavan

        ISBN: 9780262543941

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: December 20, 2022

        Essays on speculative/science fiction explore the futures that feed our most cherished fantasies and terrifying nightmares, while helping diverse communities devise new survival strategies for a tough millennium.
        Extreme Fabulations

        Extreme Fabulations

        Extreme Fabulations

        Science Fictions of Life

        by Steven Shaviro

        ISBN: 9781912685882

        Publisher: Goldsmiths Press

        Pub Date: August 3, 2021

        An examination of science fiction narratives and the light they shed on human life, the unknowable future, and the vagaries of unforeseeable change.
        Science Fiction

        Science Fiction

        Science Fiction

        by Sherryl Vint

        ISBN: 9780262539999

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 16, 2021

        How science fiction has been a tool for understanding and living through rapid technological change.
        Science Fiction

        Science Fiction

        Science Fiction

        Edited by Dan Byrne-Smith

        ISBN: 9780262538855

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 14, 2020

        The first major anthology to focus on relationships between science fiction and contemporary art, with topics ranging from accelerating technological change to global urbanization.
        Spinal Catastrophism

        Spinal Catastrophism

        Spinal Catastrophism

        A Secret History

        by Thomas Moynihan

        Foreword by Iain Hamilton Grant

        ISBN: 9781913029562

        Publisher: Urbanomic

        Pub Date: December 3, 2019

        The historical continuity of spinal catastrophism, traced across multiform encounters between philosophy, psychology, biology, and geology.
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