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Animals and Science Fiction

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Editors:
  1. Nora Castle

    1. University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

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  2. Giulia Champion

    1. University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

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  • Features topics relevant to postcolonial studies, critical race studies, and environmental studies
  • Places canonical science fiction authors alongside emerging creators
  • Explores and critiques the non-human animal’s role in society through science fiction futures

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature (PSAAL)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Introduction

    • Nora Castle, Giulia Champion
    Pages 1-14

  3. From Animal Alterity to Animal Studies and SF Today: A Conversation with Sherryl Vint

    • Nora Castle, Giulia Champion
    Pages 15-36

  7. Community (Re)building and Entanglements

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 239-239
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    2. Africanfuturist Assemblages of the Undersea in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon

      • Frances Hallam
      Pages 241-255

    3. To Build a World: The Return of Biota in Thomas King’s The Back of the Turtle

      • Conrad Scott
      Pages 257-274
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About this book

Animals and Science Fiction is the first edited collection to be published focusing on the intersection of animal studies and science fiction studies. It offers a broad range of theoretical approaches and primary source texts—including novels, short stories, poetry, film and TV, photography, erotica, video games, and urban planning documents—that explore the ways works of science fiction can transform how we see and interact with nonhuman others. With an eye toward more just multispecies futures, it argues that speculative imaginaries can be pivotal in changing attitudes toward and understandings of nonhuman animals in our world today. Chapters appeal to those interested in biopolitics, posthumanism, new materialism, ecocriticism and the environmental humanities, ocean humanities, postcolonial studies, critical race studies, Indigenous studies, global sf studies, film studies, and food studies. Taken together, the collection works to showcase a diverse and growing field ofscholarly inquiry into animals and science fiction. 

Reviews

“This is a strong contribution to the field(s) of animal studies and science fiction. Indeed, I would recommend it in both fields separately as well as in the combined field where I work. I am especially impressed by the generous range of texts, from bacteria to games to film to novels, and with some recognition of work beyond the British/American hegemony.” (Joan Gordon, Professor Emerita, Nassau Community College; Co-editor, Science Fiction Studies)                                                                             

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

    Nora Castle

  • University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

    Giulia Champion

About the editors

Nora Castle is an IAS Early Career Fellow at the University of Warwick. She recently completed her PhD, entitled, “Food Futures: Food, Foodways, and Environmental Crisis in Contemporary Science Fiction,” which explored the future of food in/as science fiction through meat, plants, kitchens, and farms as thematic streams. 


 

Giulia Champion is a Research Fellow (Anniversary Fellowship) at the University of Southampton. Her project investigates different communities’ engagement with and representations of the seabed through culture, science communication and international policy. It interrogates how these may influence marine governance, multispecies relations and Environmental and Ocean Justice.


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