Description: 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.
Review Quotes:
"Animals and Science Fiction addresses a rather glaring gap in SF scholarship. ... It is a collection with palpable enthusiasm and propulsion, relaunching a crucial question, and it Mill prove useful to any scholar working on the subject." (M.E. Boothby, Fafnir - Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research, Vol. 12 (1), 2025)