Lars Schmeink is Professor of Media Studies at the Institut für Kultur- und Medienmanagement of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg and the editor of Collision of Realities: Establishing Research on the Fantastic in Europe. (Berlin: DeGruyter, 2012).

• Acknowledgements1. Introduction2. Dystopia, Science Fiction, Posthumanism, and Liquid Modernity3. The Anthropocene, the Posthuman, and the Animal4. Science, Family, and the Monstrous Progeny5. Individuality, Choice, and Genetic Manipulation6. The Utopian, the Dystopian, and the Heroic Deeds of One7. 9/11 and the Wasted Lives of Posthuman Zombies8. ConclusionWorks CitedIndex

Reviews‘Biopunk Dystopias is a strong contribution to twenty-first-century science fiction studies and studies of dystopian fiction, but also will interest critics invested in studies of literary and filmic representations of late capitalism, biopower, and necropolitics.’The Year’s Work in English Studies

Lars Schmeink is Professor of Media Studies at the Institut für Kultur- und Medienmanagement of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg and the editor of Collision of Realities: Establishing Research on the Fantastic in Europe. (Berlin: DeGruyter, 2012).

• Acknowledgements1. Introduction2. Dystopia, Science Fiction, Posthumanism, and Liquid Modernity3. The Anthropocene, the Posthuman, and the Animal4. Science, Family, and the Monstrous Progeny5. Individuality, Choice, and Genetic Manipulation6. The Utopian, the Dystopian, and the Heroic Deeds of One7. 9/11 and the Wasted Lives of Posthuman Zombies8. ConclusionWorks CitedIndex

Reviews‘Biopunk Dystopias is a strong contribution to twenty-first-century science fiction studies and studies of dystopian fiction, but also will interest critics invested in studies of literary and filmic representations of late capitalism, biopower, and necropolitics.’The Year’s Work in English Studies

Lars Schmeink is Professor of Media Studies at the Institut für Kultur- und Medienmanagement of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg and the editor of Collision of Realities: Establishing Research on the Fantastic in Europe. (Berlin: DeGruyter, 2012).

• Acknowledgements1. Introduction2. Dystopia, Science Fiction, Posthumanism, and Liquid Modernity3. The Anthropocene, the Posthuman, and the Animal4. Science, Family, and the Monstrous Progeny5. Individuality, Choice, and Genetic Manipulation6. The Utopian, the Dystopian, and the Heroic Deeds of One7. 9/11 and the Wasted Lives of Posthuman Zombies8. ConclusionWorks CitedIndex

Reviews‘Biopunk Dystopias is a strong contribution to twenty-first-century science fiction studies and studies of dystopian fiction, but also will interest critics invested in studies of literary and filmic representations of late capitalism, biopower, and necropolitics.’The Year’s Work in English Studies