This collection reviews recent publications on speculative and metafiction literature, highlighting diverse themes and narratives.
Ezeiyoke Chukwunonso. Nigerian Speculative Fiction: The Evolution. Routledge, 2025. xiv+210 pp. $160 hc, $46.39 pbk & ebk.Amanda Dillon. Metafiction and Narrative Worlds in Science Fiction. Liverpool UP, 2025. 192 pp. $104 hc & ebk.Elana Gomel and Vered Weiss, eds. Israeli Speculative Fiction: Beyond Is/real. Liverpool UP, 2026. 288 pp. $128 hc & ebk.Fontaine Lien. Reading Chinese Science Fiction in the Ages of Techno-Nationalism. Liverpool UP, 2025. 208 pp. $90 hc & ebk.Juan Herrero-Senés. The Science Fiction of Defeat: Future Wars in Spanish Culture (1870-1939). Liverpool UP, 2025. 272 pp. $128 hc & ebk.Chon A. Noriega, Maya Montañez Smukler, and Nicole Uceda, eds. Science Fiction against the Margins: Cinematic Futures, Global Imaginaries. U of Washington P, 2025. 456 pp. $30 pbk.Wendy Roy, ed. ReVisions: Speculating in Literature and Film in Canada. U of Toronto P, 2025. 438 pp. $90 hc & ebk.Eileen M. Hunt. The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination. U of Pennsylvania P, 2024. 224 pp. $34.95 hc & ebk.Simon Bacon, ed. The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie. Palgrave, 2025. xxiv+1623 pp. $649.99 hc & ebk.Christopher Carter. The Rhetoric of Dystopia: Prophecies and Provocations in the Anthropocene. Lexington, 2024. 214 pp. $144.85 hc, $115.88 ebk.Joe P.L. Davidson. Saving Utopia: Imagining Hopeful Futures in Dystopian Times. MIT, 2026. 248 pp. $45 pbk & ebk.Joanna Davis-McElligatt. Black Aliens: Kinship in the Cosmic Diaspora. Ohio State UP, New Suns: RACE, Gender, AND Sexuality IN THE SPECULATIVE, 2026. 240 pp. $129.95 hc, $36.95 pbk & ebk.Caroline Edwards, ed. The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945. Cambridge UP, 2026. 326 pp. $100.95 hc, $33 pbk & ebk.Mark Fryers and Marcus K. Harmes, eds. Cybernetic Imaginations. Peter Lang, Speculations, 2026. 266 pp. $50.95 pbk & ebk.Kate Holterhoff. Speculation and the Darwinian Method in British Romance Fiction, 1859-1914. Ohio UP, Victorian Studies, 2025. 208 pp. $80 hc, $79.99 ebk.Stuart Lindsay. Chernobyl Trauma and Gothic: Testimony, Cultural Memory and Global Literary Perspectives. Anthem, Anthem Studies in Gothic Literature, 2026. 182 pp. $110 hc, $35 ebk.
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