How can science fiction help us imagine and build alternative worlds and escape from capitalism?
Fluid Futures is about how science fiction imagines an open future. Science fiction does not claim to predict what will actually happen in times to come, but it offers pictures of potential developments; it narrates the unfolding of possibilities for change that are already implicit, or incipient, in the present moment.
Analysing the work of H.P. Lovecraft, William Gibson, Kim Stanley Robinson, Ursula Le Guin, Jeff VanderMeer and many more, Fluid Futures shows us how science fiction can imagine forms of life that are plausible, and yet different from anything that we already know.
Steven Shaviro is Emeritus Professor of English at Wayne State University in Detroit, and a recipient of the Science Fiction Research Association's award for lifetime achievement in science fiction scholarship.
Size: 134 x 215mm (paperback)
Pages: 412
Publisher: Repeater
