Uneven Futures

Table Of Contents

Introduction: It’s the End of the World as We Know It—or So We Hope
Ida Yoshinaga, Sean Guynes, and Gerry Canavan xi

I Emergence 1

1 Samuel R. Delany, “The Star Pit” (1965) / Moving On, As Far as You Want 3
Kirin Wachter-Grene

2 Lionel Davidson, Under Plum Lake (1980) / YA Time Out of Joint 11
Rebekah Sheldon

3 Brian Henson and Rockne O’Bannon, Farscape (1999–2003) / Radical Compassion 19
Emmet Asher-Perrin

4 Shovon Chowdhury, The Competent Authority / CTRL+ALT+DELETE Humanity 27
Sami Ahmad Khan

5 Sofia Samatar, “How to Get Back to the Forest” (2014) / Shaping and Sharing Feelings 37
Steven Shaviro

6 Tade Thompson, Wormwood Trilogy (2016–2019) / Africanfuturism’s Salvage Utopianism 47
Hugh Charles O’Connell

7 Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, The OA (2016–2019) / Science Fiction’s Affective Praxis 57
Sherryl Vint

8 Craig Laurance Gidney, A Spectral Hue (2019) / #OwnVoices and Intergroup Solidarity 65
Bogi Takács

9 Jonathan Hickman, House of X and Powers of X (2019) / Ecological Activism and Radical Sovereignty 73
David M. Higgins

10 Rebecca Sugar, Steven Universe Future (2019–2020) / Camp Redemption 81
B. Pladek

II Rupture 89

11 Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland (1884) / Unflattening Scientific Worldviews 91
Karen Lord

12 Karel Capek, War with the Newts (1936) / Comic Jeremiad Journalism 99
John Rieder

13 Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (1970) / Remaking the Bond 105
Sean Guynes

14 Joan Slonczewski, A Door into Ocean (1986) / Peaceful Ecological Defiance 111
Gwyneth Jones

15 SCP Foundation (2008–) / Collaborative Canons 119
Andrew Ferguson 

16 Kléber Mendonça Filho, Recife Frio (2009) / Visualizing Disparity in Brazil 127
Alfredo Suppia and M. Elizabeth Ginway

17 Virginia Grise, blu (2011) / Queer Latinx Aesthetics of Apocalypse 135
Cathryn Merla-Watson

18 Claire Coleman, Terra Nullius (2017) / Aboriginal SF’s Realities of the Imaginary 143
Allanah Hunt

19 Liu Cixin (2000) and Frant Gwo (2019), The Wandering Earth / Deimperializing Empire 153
Nathaniel Isaacson

Interlude 163

20 Science Fiction Studies 3.0: Re-networking Our Hive Mind 165
Ida Yoshinaga 

III Transformation 177

21 Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974) / Permanent Feminist Revolution 179
Kim Stanley Robinson

22 Joanna Russ, We Who Are About To… (1976) / There Is No Planet B 187
Farah Mendlesohn

23 Eleanor Arnason, Ring of Swords (1993) / Queer-Feminist Peace Work 193
Veronica Hollinger

24 Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam Trilogy (2003–2013) / Interspecies Coalition-Building 201
Alison Sperling

25 Buried without Ceremony, The Quiet Year (2013) and The Deep Forest (2014) / Mechanics of Resolution 207
Brent Ryan Bellamy

26 Undead Labs, State of Decay (2013) / Crafting Community at the End of the World 215
Cameron Kunzelman

27 Hideo Kojima, Death Stranding (2019) / Reconnecting in the Time of Climate Change 221
Darshana Jayemanne, Brendan Keogh, and Ben Abraham

28 Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon, Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower (2020) / Links to Our Future-Present 229
Ayana Jamieson 

IV Revolution 239

29 Pauline Hopkins, Of One Blood (1902) / Antiracism and the Counternarrative of the Black Fantastic 241
Dexter Gabriel

30 Alan Moore, David Gibbons, and John Higgins, Watchment, no. 11 (1987) / Autonomous Collectivity against the State 249
Gerry Canavan

31 Tobias Buckell, Sly Mongoose (2008) / Inhabiting Hostile Futures 257
Nicola Hunte

32 Tochi Onyebuchi, Riot Baby (2019) / Black lives Matter SF 265
Isiah Lavender III

33 Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita, Lunar Braceros: 2125–2148 (2009) / Imagination against Resistance 275
Lysa Rivera

34 Boualem Sansal, 2084: The End of the World (2015) / Resisting Censorship 285
Ouissal Harize

35 The Russo Brothers, Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and Captain America: Civil War (2016) / The Patriotism of Raising Hell 293
Sarah Marrs

36 Princess Nokia, “Brujas” (2016) / Santería’s Decolonial Futurisms 303
Taryne Jade Taylor

37 Lehua Parker, One Truth, No Lie (2016) / Indigenous Youth Activism through Mo’olelo and YA Literature 309
Caryn Lesuma

38 Kim Stanley Robinson, New York 2140 (2017) / Logistic Utopia 317
Fabio Fernandes

39 Na Kia’i Mauna, Ka Pu’uhonua o Pu’uhuluhulu at the Mauna Kea Access Road (2019) / An SF Sovereignty Story 325
Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada

Contributors 333
Index 343