Mapping the Megatext in Global Science Fiction

Dale Knickerbocker is McMahon Distinguished Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures at East Carolina University. He specialises in Hispanic science fiction, horror and the fantastic, and is author of Juan José Millás: the obsessive-compulsive aesthetic, and editor of Lingua Cosmica: Essays on World Science Fiction.Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay is Professor of Global Culture Studies in the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oslo.

• Editors and ContributorsDale Knickerbocker and Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay‘A house of my own’: Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber (2000), postcoloniality, and narrative revisionW. Andrew ShephardClaire G. Coleman’s Terra Nullius and Australian Indigenous FuturismIva PolakThe ‘pessoptimism’ of Arabic science fiction: a guide on travelogues in the works of Syrian 100 Ṭālib ‘UmrānAda BarbaroTerritorial histories: Lavie Tidhar, transcultural spaces, and Israeli fantastikaElana Gomel‘You are not alone’: Raana Raas (Etelka Suhajda) and the speculative future of religion in Hungarian SF and beyondBogi TakácsA strong survival instinct: Manon Steffan Ros’ Llyfr Glas Nebo (Blue Book of Nebo)Miriam Elin JonesScience fiction from Bangladesh: nonhuman laborers and human ethics in Muhammad Jafar Iqbal’s SF novelsAnwesha MaitySpeculating the welfare state: Cathrine Knudsen and Nordic science fictionIngvil Hellstrand“The only thing that can save us from reality is fiction”: Lars Jakobson and his Friendly FriendsJerry Määttä