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John Rieder

Truth, Lies, and Speculative Fiction

An exploration of contemporary speculative fiction's power to intervene in social, political, and environmental crises, this book demonstrates how the genre acts as a defense in the navigation of propagat…

Fiction

The Big Other

Meng Xia

Reading Contemporary Chinese Migrant Fiction

Reading Contemporary Chinese Migrant Fiction examines the spectrum of Chinese migrant writing about memory since the 1990s and what it tells us about history, memory and trauma in contemporary China. Draw…

Amr Kamal

Emporialism

A comparative study of iconographic and fictional representations of department stores in France and Egypt, as sites of imperial and Mediterranean cultural memory, from 1869 to the present. Honorable Ment…

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025

Of science fiction and fantasy, guest editor Nnedi Okorafor writes, "There are times when it feels like a box, but within it, technically, you can expect anything." The twenty stories in this co…

Neil Clarke

The Best Science Fiction of the Year

The second volume of the new best of the year sci-fi short story anthology, edited by the award-winning author and publisher of "Clarkesworld" magazine.

Patrick Armstrong

Microscopy, Magnification and Modernist Fiction

Exploring how modernism registered shock experiences of the microscopic and extended vision in prose fiction through the work of four modernist writers - D. H. Lawrence, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and…

Matthew Oliver,

Reading Length in Fantasy Fiction

Reframing debates surrounding long narratives to explore their impact, this book develops a critical vocabulary for discussing the formal, social, and political affordances of length and duration in fanta…

Stephen Hong Sohn

Asian Ameritopias

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Patrick Armstrong

Microscopy, Magnification, and Modernist Fiction

Exploring how modernism registered shock experiences of the microscopic and extended vision in prose fiction through the work of four modernist writers - D. H. Lawrence, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and…

Sofie Behluli

Art in Contemporary Anglo-American Fiction

Since 2010, a number of Anglo-American novels on visual art have been published and critically acclaimed. Dr Behluli interprets this wave of novels as a particular literary genre: the 'ekphrastic novel'. …

Stephanie Bird

Responses to Nazi Perpetration in Fiction

Looking at novels by authors from countries directly involved in and affected by genocidal violence and its legacies this book analyses representations of Nazi perpetration and complicity.

Kevin Ohi

Narrative Personae and Desire in Modernist Fiction

Narrative Personae and Desire in Modernist Fiction explores how narrative language renders subjective states of interiority and desire. Its detailed readings consider seminal modernists-Ford, Woolf, Faulk…

Yoko Okuda

Emotions and Contingencies in Conrad's Fiction

This book sets out to elucidate Conrad's unique insight into the workings of human emotions for a readership of scholars and graduate students engaged in Conrad studies. It argues that the originality of …

Jonathan Hay

Science Fiction and Posthumanism in the Anthropocene

With science fiction stories imagining futures and worlds vastly different from our own, and posthuman philosophies radically reconceptualising our species' place within our own world, this book is a deep…

A Century of Fiction in The New Yorker

Edited by The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, a celebratory selection from one hundred years of short stories in the magazine which has been the most influential and important showcase for …

Kaisa Kortekallio

Mutant Narratives in Ecological Science Fiction

"Using an innovative multidisciplinary approach which is deeply invested in posthumanist thought, this book demonstrates how reading science fiction shapes the way we engage with lived environments. …

Vicente Lecuna

A Promising Past

Vicente Lecuna examines an array of fictions surrounding Parque Central, a high-rise development conceived and built by the Venezuelan government as a key component of a modernization and urban renewal pr…

Samuel Manickam

Mexican Women Writers of Science Fiction

This book is the first to offer an in-depth scholarly study of Mexican women writers of science fiction and highlight their innovative contributions to the growth and development of the genre in Mexico. B…