Science Fiction Studies

Ethical Futures and Global Science Fiction explores the ethical concerns and dimensions of representations of the future of global science fiction, focusing on the issues that dominate utopian, dystopian, and science fiction literature. The essays…

This chapter asks whether science fiction (SF) has a predisposition to a particular ethical orientation. Rather than seek a single answer to this question of SF’s ethics, Kendal examines two classic SF texts and the traditions they represent: Isaac…

How might emerging politics and biotechnologies, such as artificial wombs, affect our world? Contemporary science fiction experiments with different and innovative modes of literary representation, challenging readers' thinking and making possible…

This special double issue of Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique arises from the (Un)Ethical Futures: Utopia, Dystopia and Science Fiction conference, held 15–17 December 2017 at the Monash University Law Chambers in Melbourne. It carries forward the…

The (Un)Ethical Futures: Utopia, Dystopia and Science Fiction conference was held 15–17 December 2017 at the Monash University Law Chambers in Melbourne, Australia. The conference was organised by an interdisciplinary team of postgraduate students…

In this thesis, I argue that the assumptions and values that underpinned pulp science fiction (SF) from the USA predisposed it to totalising themes and modes of representation that influenced subsequent genre traditions. I contend, however, that SF…