Speculative Realism and Science Fiction

Brian Willems is Assistant Professor of literature and film at the University of Split, Croatia. He is the author of Hopkins and Heidegger (Continuum, 2009), Facticity, Poverty and Clones: On Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go (Atropos Press, 2010) and Shooting the Moon (Zero Books, 2015). He is co-editor of The First Ten Years of English Studies in Split (Split University, 2011).

• Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Zug Effect 2. Divine Paraphrase: Cormac McCarthy 3. Double-Vision: Neil Gaiman 4. Subtraction and Contradiction: China Miéville 5. Tension and Phase: Doris Lessing 6. Animal Death: Paolo Bacigalupi 7. Transcription: Kim Stanley Robinson Conclusion Bibliography Notes Index

Brian Willems’s recent monograph serves as a much-needed addition to studies of both sf and the evolving strand of philosophical thought known as speculative realism.