Cultural Theory

This collection shows what science fiction criticism can do when ...

(Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Mars)

This collection shows what science fiction criticism can do when Marxist critical practice is joined by science studies and the rest of theory. The results are tremendously exciting and powerful, explaining not just a genre but our world, from the financial crash of 2008 to the utopian impulses that remain always in us.

(Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Mars trilogy)

This collection marks a red shift in thinking about the ...

(Tom Moylan is Glucksman Professor of Con)

This collection marks a red shift in thinking about the history, form, and impact of science fiction literature and film. In robust dialectical manoeuvres, the essays, by a dynamic mix of scholars, simultaneously revive, critique, and transform the vibrant tradition of Marxist sf criticism. The book is a timely, readable, and incisive intervention in contemporary cultural critique.

(Tom Moylan is Glucksman Professor of Contemporary Writing in English and Director of the Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies at the University of Limerick.)

Red Planets is a highly readable and interesting collection of ...

(Neil Easterbrook, Associate Professor of)

Red Planets is a highly readable and interesting collection of essays. Many of the pieces have completely new things to tell us, and will be of interest even to those who are antagonistic toward politically inspired criticism.

(Neil Easterbrook, Associate Professor of Critical Theory, Texas Christian University)