Ian P. MacDonald is Assistant Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University where he researches science fiction, utopia, and African speculative narratives. Kate Polak is Instructor of English and a research associate at Florida Atlantic University, where she continues to study the old lore in her work as a swamp witch.

• IntroductionIan P. MacDonald and Kate PolakThe Future of the Historical Novel: Freedom and Salvation in Jo Walton’s LentPhillip WegnerBad China and Good Chinese Fiction: What We Don’t Understand in Liu Cixin’s Three-Body TrilogyCao Xuenan"I Go Backward, Look Forward, As the Porcupine Does": History, Indigenous Futurity and Decolonizing the Culture Concept in Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness and Always Coming HomeEric AronoffRealist Apocalypse and Pessimistic Aesthetics in Animal’s People and The God of Small ThingsRebecca OhBack to Gilead’s Future: (Re)visions of Critical Dystopia in Margaret Atwood’s The TestamentsLuke Rodewald‘A Poor Sort of Memory’: Jamais Vu and the Historian as Archive in Tade Thompson’s Wormwood TrilogyIan MacDonaldConstructing a Post-Neoliberal Consciousness: The 1980s and/as Now in Ian McEwan’s Machines Like MeJackson AyresLiterary Activism, Fresh Registers and Ecocritical Debates in Immaculate Innocent Acan’s Short StoriesEdgar NabutanyiSettler Colonialism, Resource Extraction, and the Future of Canada: Reading Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow ThievesShannon LodoenImagining Past, Present, and Future: Totalization and the Face-to-Face Encounter in Carmen Boullosa’s Heavens on EarthPreston Waltrip"The Shape of Power is Always the Same”: The Power as Exposure TherapyKate PolakReimagining Contagion in Stephen Graham Jones’s The Bird Is Gone: A Monograph ManifestoGabriella FriedmanCritical AfterwordGerry Canavan

"This well-conceived collection juxtaposes the historical novel and science fiction to ask questions about the genre of history itself. Introduced by a concise, lucid account of the controversies about history swirling around the contemporary culture wars, the wide variety of recent sf covered in the essays amply displays the formal and thematic possibilities of the genre." Professor John Rieder, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Ian P. MacDonald is Assistant Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University where he researches science fiction, utopia, and African speculative narratives. Kate Polak is Instructor of English and a research associate at Florida Atlantic University, where she continues to study the old lore in her work as a swamp witch.

• IntroductionIan P. MacDonald and Kate PolakThe Future of the Historical Novel: Freedom and Salvation in Jo Walton’s LentPhillip WegnerBad China and Good Chinese Fiction: What We Don’t Understand in Liu Cixin’s Three-Body TrilogyCao Xuenan"I Go Backward, Look Forward, As the Porcupine Does": History, Indigenous Futurity and Decolonizing the Culture Concept in Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness and Always Coming HomeEric AronoffRealist Apocalypse and Pessimistic Aesthetics in Animal’s People and The God of Small ThingsRebecca OhBack to Gilead’s Future: (Re)visions of Critical Dystopia in Margaret Atwood’s The TestamentsLuke Rodewald‘A Poor Sort of Memory’: Jamais Vu and the Historian as Archive in Tade Thompson’s Wormwood TrilogyIan MacDonaldConstructing a Post-Neoliberal Consciousness: The 1980s and/as Now in Ian McEwan’s Machines Like MeJackson AyresLiterary Activism, Fresh Registers and Ecocritical Debates in Immaculate Innocent Acan’s Short StoriesEdgar NabutanyiSettler Colonialism, Resource Extraction, and the Future of Canada: Reading Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow ThievesShannon LodoenImagining Past, Present, and Future: Totalization and the Face-to-Face Encounter in Carmen Boullosa’s Heavens on EarthPreston Waltrip"The Shape of Power is Always the Same”: The Power as Exposure TherapyKate PolakReimagining Contagion in Stephen Graham Jones’s The Bird Is Gone: A Monograph ManifestoGabriella FriedmanCritical AfterwordGerry Canavan

"This well-conceived collection juxtaposes the historical novel and science fiction to ask questions about the genre of history itself. Introduced by a concise, lucid account of the controversies about history swirling around the contemporary culture wars, the wide variety of recent sf covered in the essays amply displays the formal and thematic possibilities of the genre." Professor John Rieder, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Ian P. MacDonald is Assistant Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University where he researches science fiction, utopia, and African speculative narratives. Kate Polak is Instructor of English and a research associate at Florida Atlantic University, where she continues to study the old lore in her work as a swamp witch.

• IntroductionIan P. MacDonald and Kate PolakThe Future of the Historical Novel: Freedom and Salvation in Jo Walton’s LentPhillip WegnerBad China and Good Chinese Fiction: What We Don’t Understand in Liu Cixin’s Three-Body TrilogyCao Xuenan"I Go Backward, Look Forward, As the Porcupine Does": History, Indigenous Futurity and Decolonizing the Culture Concept in Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness and Always Coming HomeEric AronoffRealist Apocalypse and Pessimistic Aesthetics in Animal’s People and The God of Small ThingsRebecca OhBack to Gilead’s Future: (Re)visions of Critical Dystopia in Margaret Atwood’s The TestamentsLuke Rodewald‘A Poor Sort of Memory’: Jamais Vu and the Historian as Archive in Tade Thompson’s Wormwood TrilogyIan MacDonaldConstructing a Post-Neoliberal Consciousness: The 1980s and/as Now in Ian McEwan’s Machines Like MeJackson AyresLiterary Activism, Fresh Registers and Ecocritical Debates in Immaculate Innocent Acan’s Short StoriesEdgar NabutanyiSettler Colonialism, Resource Extraction, and the Future of Canada: Reading Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow ThievesShannon LodoenImagining Past, Present, and Future: Totalization and the Face-to-Face Encounter in Carmen Boullosa’s Heavens on EarthPreston Waltrip"The Shape of Power is Always the Same”: The Power as Exposure TherapyKate PolakReimagining Contagion in Stephen Graham Jones’s The Bird Is Gone: A Monograph ManifestoGabriella FriedmanCritical AfterwordGerry Canavan

"This well-conceived collection juxtaposes the historical novel and science fiction to ask questions about the genre of history itself. Introduced by a concise, lucid account of the controversies about history swirling around the contemporary culture wars, the wide variety of recent sf covered in the essays amply displays the formal and thematic possibilities of the genre." Professor John Rieder, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa