Books Received

Eric Aronoff. Culture’s Futures: Science Fiction, Forms and the Problem of Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. 410 pp. 159. 99 hc, 119 ebk. Philip Braithwaite. Time Lords and Star Cops: British Science Fiction Television in the 1970s-1980s. Manchester UP, 2023. 237 pp. £85 hc, £20 pbk. Aroosa Kanval and Shazia Sadaf. Contemporary Pakistani Speculative Fiction and the Global Imaginary: Democratizing Human Futures. Routledge, 2024. 170 pp. 152 hc, 54. 99 pbk & ebk. Maria Lindgren Leavenworth. The Imagined Arctic in Speculative Fiction. Routledge, Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment, 2024. 186 pp. 152 hc, 43. 99 pbk & ebk. Lyu Guangzhao. The Boom & the Boom: Historical Rupture and Political Economy in Contemporary British and Chinese Science Fiction. Peter Lang, World Science Fiction Studies, 2024. xvi+320 pp. 67. 95 pbk & ebk. Marco Malvestio. The Ecology of Italian Science Fiction. U of Toronto P, 2025. 256 pp. 70 hc & ebk. Samuel Manickam. Mexican Women Writers of Science Fiction: The Post-Female Novum. Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. 192 pages. 129. 99 hc, 23. 99 ebk. Sara Martín. Masculinity in Contemporary Science Fiction: No Plans for the Future. U of Liverpool P, 2025. 272 pp. 120 hc & ebk. Lourdes López Ropero, ed. H. G. Wells: Contemporary Perspectives. THALiS Research Series, Universidad de Salamanca, 2024. 239 pp. €18 hc. David Seed. John Wyndham. Liverpool UP, 2025. 184 pp. 70 hc, 45 pbk & ebk. Nathan Abrams, Elizabeth Miller, and Christopher L. Robinson, eds. The Cultural Heritage of Blade Runner: “More Human than Human. ” Liverpool UP, 2025. 258 pp. 160 hc & ebk. Reynaldo Anderson. Afrofuturism and World Order. Ohio State UP, New Suns: race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative, 2025. 208 pp. 99. 95 hc, 36. 95 pbk & ebk. James Boyle. The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood. MIT, 2024. 336 pp. 32. 95 hc, open-access ebk. Christopher Carter. The Rhetoric of Dystopia: Prophecies and Provocations in the Anthropocene. Lexington Books, 2024. 203 pp. 138. 15 hc, 110. 52 ebk. Leimar Garcia-Siniio, Sabrina Mittermeier, and Stefan Rabitsch, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Star Trek. Routledge, Routledge Literature Handbooks, 2025. 490 pp. 240 hc, 51. 19 pbk & ebk. Maia Gil’Adi. Doom Patterns: Latinx Speculations and the Aesthetics of Violence. Duke UP, 2025. 280 pp. 104. 95 hc, 27. 95 pbk & ebk. Matthew Leggatt. Play in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction. U of Liverpool P, 2025. 208 pp. 130 hc & ebk. Angela Maria Monaco. Water Stories in the Anthropocene: Anglophone Climate-Change Fiction. Routledge, 2025. viii+191 pp. 144 hc, 45. 59 ebk. Derek J. Thiess. American Fantastic: Myths of Violence and Redemption. U of Wisconsin P, 2025. 206 pp. 79. 95 hc, 99. 95 ebk. Amanda Zehnder and David Brinley, eds. Icons of the Fantastic: Illustrations of Imaginative Literature from the Korshak Collection. U of Delaware P/Rutgers UP, 2025. Foreword by Guillermo del Toro. 172 pp. 44. 95 hc.