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Uneven futures : strategies for community survival from speculative fiction / edited by Ida Yoshinaga, Sean Guynes, and Gerry Canavan.

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The MIT Press, 2022.

Speculative fiction -- History and criticism.

Science fiction -- History and criticism.

Communities in literature.

9780262543941 (pbk)

xv, 356 p. : black and white ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : it's the end of the world as we know it - or so we hope / Ida Yoshinaga, Sean Guynes, and Gerry Canavan -- I. Emergence -- Samuel R. Delany, "The Star Pit" (1965)/moving on, as far as you want / Kirin Wachter-Grene -- Lionel Davidson, Under Plum Lake (1980)/YA time out of joint / Rebekah Sheldon -- Brian Henson and Rockne O'Bannon, Farscape (1999-2003)/radical compassion / Emmet Asher-Perrin -- Shovan Chowdhury, The Competent Authority (2013)/CTRL+ALR+DELETE humanity / Sami Ahmad Khan -- Sofia Samatar, "How to Get Back to the Forest" (2014)/shaping and sharing feelings / Steven Shaviro -- Tade Thompson, Wormwood Trilogy (2016-2019)/Africanfuturism's salvage utopianism / Hugh Charles O'Connell -- Brit Marling and Zai Batmanglij, The OA (2016-2019)/science fiction's affective praxis / Sherryl Vint -- Craig Laurance Gidney, A Spectral Hue (2019)/#OwnVoices and intergroup solidarity / Bogi Takács -- Jonathan Hickman, House of X and Powers of X (2019)/ecological activism and radical sovereignty / David M. Higgins -- Rebecca Sugar, Steven Universe Future (2019-2020)/camp redemption / B. Pladak -- II. Rupture -- Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland (1884)/unflattening scientific worldviews / Karen Lord -- Karel Čapek, War with the Newts (1936)/comic jeremiad journalism / John Rieder -- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atvan (1970)/remaking the bond / Sean Guynes -- Joan Slonczewski, A Door into Ocean (1986)/peaceful ecological defiance / Gwyneth Jones -- SCP Foundation (2008-)/collaborative canons / Andrew Ferguson -- Kléber Mendonçaa Filho, Recife Frio (2009)/visualizing disparity in Brazil / Alfredo Suppia and M. Elizabeth Ginway -- Virginia Grise, blu (2011)/queer Latinx aesthetics of apocalypse / Cathryn Merla-Watson -- Claire Coleman, Terra Nullius (2017)/Aboriginal sf's realities of the imaginary / Allanah Hunt -- Liu Cixin (2000) and Frant Gwo (2019), The Wandering Earth/deimperializing empire / Nathaniel Isaacson -- Interlude -- Science fiction studies 3.0 : re-networking our hive mind / Ida Yoshinaga -- III. Transformation -- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974)/permanent feminist revolution / Kim Stanley Robinson -- Joanna Russ, We Who Are About To ... (1976)/there is no Planet B / Farah Mendlesohn -- Eleanor Arnason, Ring of Swords (1993)/queer-feminist peace work / Veronica Hollinger -- Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam Trilogy (2003-2013)/interspecies coalition-building / Alison Sperling -- Buried without Ceremony, The Quiet Year (2013) and The Deep Forest (2014)/mechanics of resolution / Brent Ryan Bellamy -- Undead Labs, State of Decay (2013)/crafting community at the end of the world / Cameron Kunzelman -- Hideo Kojima, Death Stranding (2019)/reconnecting in the time of climate change / Darshana Jayemanne, Brendan Keogh, and Ben Abraham -- Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon, Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower (2020)/links to our future-present / Ayana Jamieson -- IV. Revolution -- Pauline Hopkins, Of One Blood (1902)/antiracism and the counternarrative of the Black fantastic / Dexter Gabriel -- Alan Moore, David Gibbons, and John Higgins, Watchmen, no. 11 (1987)/autonomous collectivity against the state / Gerry Canavan -- Tobias Buckell, Sly Mongoose (2008)/inhabiting hostile futures / Nicola Hunte -- Tochi Onyebuchi, Riot Baby (2019)/Black Lives Matter sf / Isiah Lavender III -- Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita, Lunar Braceros: 2125-2148 (2009)/imagination against resistance / Lysa Rivera -- Boualem Sansai, 2084: The End of the World (2015)/resisting censorship / Ouisssal Harize -- The Russo Brothers, Caption America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and Captain America: Civil War (2016)/the patriotism of raising hell / Sarah Marrs -- Princess Nokia, "Brujas" (2016)/Santer©Ưa's decolonial futurisms / Taryne Jade Taylor -- Lehua Parker, One Truth, No Lie (2016)/Indigenous youth activism through Mo'olelo and YA literature / Caryn Lesuma -- Kim Stanley Robinson, New York 2140 (2017)/logistic utopia / Fabio Fernandes -- Nā Kia'i Mauna, Ka Pu'uhonua o Pu'uhuluhulu at the Mauna Kea Access Road (2019)/an sf sovereignty story / Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada.

"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. The explosion in speculative/science fiction (SF) across different media from the late twentieth century to the present has compelled those in the field of SF studies to rethink the community’s identity, orientation, and stakes. In this edited collection, more than forty writers, critics, game designers, scholars, and activists explore core SF texts, with an eye toward a future in which corporations dominate both the means of production and the means of distribution and governments rely on powerful surveillance and carceral technologies.The essays, international in scope, demonstrate the diversity of SF through a balance of popular mass-market novels, comics, films, games, TV shows, creepypastas, and more niche works. SF works explored range from Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi, 2084: The End of the World by Boualem Sansal, Terra Nullius by Claire Coleman, Watchmen and X-Men comics, and the Marvel film Captain America: The Winter Soldier, to the MaddAddam trilogy by Margaret Atwood, The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wandering Earth by Liu Cixin, and the Wormwood trilogy by Tade Thompson. In an era in which ecological disaster and global pandemics regularly expose and intensify deep political-economic inequalities, what futures has SF anticipated? What survival strategies has it provided us? Can it help us to deal with, and grow beyond, the inequalities and injustices of our times? Unlike other books of speculative/science fiction criticism, Uneven Futures uses a think piece format to make its critical insights engaging to a wide audience. The essays inspire visions of better possible futures -- drawing on feminist, queer, and global speculative engagements with Indigenous, Latinx, and Afro- and African futurisms -- while imparting important lessons for political organizing in the present."--Publisher.

Literary criticism.

Yoshinaga, Ida M.

Canavan, Gerry.

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