A01=Ben Woodard
Author_Ben Woodard
Category=DSK
Category=FL
Category=FM
Continental theorists
dark fiction
Decolonia
decolonial theory
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_fantasy
eq_fiction
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_science-fiction
history of colonialism
Nature and Dystopia philosophy
sci-fi
Science Fiction
science fiction studies
Speculative Realism
Weird fiction
zero
zero books
Product details
- ISBN 9781803414485
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 25 Mar 2025
- Publisher: Collective Ink
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Is it inhabited? This question makes the shared stakes of science fiction and colonialism obvious, wherein the wide imaginaries of empire and what counts as life � scientifically, ethically, politically � and the moral and technological possibilities of terraforming and the impulse for exploration are all fused. Science fiction, and the genres that preceded and grounded it, such as scientific romance and tales of lost civilizations, emerged alongside the birth of industrialized global trade and imperial rushes for new resources. If the scientific romance dramatized the effects of new technologies on history and forms of life, then lost civilization stories dealt with themes of the alien, the forgetting of history, and more explicitly, with episodes of war and oppression.
Benjamin Graham Woodard is a first year PhD student in Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario. He lives in London, Canada.
