Samuel Delany, “The Gestation of Genres: Literature, Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy…” in Occasional Views, vol. 1 (Wesleyan University Press, 2021), 52.
John Rieder, Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction (Wesleyan University Press, 2008).
Judith Merril, “What Do You Mean: Science? Fiction?” Extrapolation: Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Studies, no. 7 (May 1966) and no. 8 (December 1966). Reprinted in Science Fiction Criticism, ed. Rob Latham (Bloomsbury, 2017), 26.
Judith Merril, “Introduction,” in SF: ’59. The Year’s Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy, ed. Merril (Gnome Press, 1959), 10.
Diane Newell, “Judith Merril and Rachel Carson: Reflections on their ‘Potent Fictions’ of Science,” Journal of International Women’s Studies 5, no. 4 (2004).
Newell, “Judith Merril and Rachel Carson,” 34, emphasis in original.
Grace Dillon, “Taking the Fiction Out of Science Fiction: A Conversation About Indigenous Futurisms,” interview by Isadora (Pedro) Neves Marques, e-flux journal, no. 120 (September 2021) →.
Dillon, “Taking the Fiction Out of Science Fiction.”
Dillon, “Taking the Fiction Out of Science Fiction.”
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, “Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism,” Journal of the Anthropological Royal Institute 4, no. 3 (September 1998).
Dillon, “Taking the Fiction Out of Science Fiction.”
Isadora (Pedro) Neves Marques, “Of Spirits and Androids in Cinema,” in Schemas of Uncertainty, ed. Callum Copley and Danae Io (Sandberg Institute, 2022).
Bruno Latour, Science in Action (Harvard University Press, 1987).
Accordingly, Haraway described her 1989 book Primate Visions as “a primate text as science fiction, where possible worlds are constantly reinvented in the contest for very real, present worlds.” For all citations, see Donna J. Haraway, Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science (Routledge, 1989), 5, emphasis in original.
Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Savage Mind (University of Chicago Press, 1966).
Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible (Harper & Row, 1973).
Adrian Tchaikovsky, Elder Race (Tor, 2021) 29.
Tchaikovsky, Elder Race.
For two examples among many, see Bruno Latour “Whose Cosmos? Which Cosmopolitics?” Common Knowledge 3, no. 10 (2004); and Yuk Hui, “Cosmotechnics as Cosmopolitics,” e-flux journal, no. 86 (November 2017) →.
Trihn T. Mihn-ah, When the Moon Waxes Red: Representation, Gender and Cultural Politics (Routledge, 1991); Chantal Mouffe, Agonistics: Thinking the World Politically (Verso, 2013).
The quote, apropos Suvin’s definition, is from Roger Luckhurst, “The Many Deaths of Science Fiction: A Polemic,” Science Fiction Studies, 62, vol. 21 (March 1994), emphasis in original
