The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction

The New Routledge Companion is, apparently, due out on 13 June 2024.

It complements rather than replaces The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction, which Andrew, Sherryl and I co-edited with Adam Roberts, who had to pull out of this one.

When Routledge approached us around Easter 2019, they were clearly thinking along the lines of ‘drop a few chapters, update the remaining ones and add a few new ones’. I hate those kind of second editions, since they are basically a scam to milk University library budgets while maximising income for minimum outlay. So instead we suggested a New Companion. There was a compromise around a larger number of new chapters, and then somewhere in the shuffle and churn of Routledge editors we basically commissioned an entirely new volume. Adam’s chapter is the only one carried over from the original Companion, with just a couple of others appearing in revised versions; the other 50+ chapters are entirely new (and the old Companion will remain available electronically).

When the New Companion was contracted in December 2019, we imagined delivering the manuscript around Easter 2021 delivery.

So only two-and-a-half years late on this one.

Table of Contents
Mark Bould, Andrew M. Butler and Sherryl Vint, Introduction
Part I. Science Fiction Histories
1. Sinéad Murphy, North African, Middle Eastern, Arabic and diasporic science fiction
2. Adam Roberts, The Copernican revolution
3. Nicole Kuʻuleinapuananiolikoʻawapuhimelemeleolani Furtado, Indigenous futurisms
4. Andrew M. Butler, Art as science fiction
5. Arthur B. Evans, Nineteenth-century western science fiction
6. Rubén R. Mendoza, Latin American science fiction
7. Brittany R. Roberts, Russian-language science fiction
8. Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, South Asian science fiction
9. Nicola Hunte, Afro-diasporic speculative fiction
10. Emily Midkiff, Anglophone print fiction. children’s and young adult
11. Rone Shavers, Afrofuturism
12. John Timberlake, Science fiction illustration
13. Baryon Tensor Posadas, Japanese science fiction
14. J.P. Telotte, Science fiction film, 1895-1940
15. Wu Yan, Chinese science fiction
16. Patrick B. Sharp, Anglophone print fiction. the pulps to the New Wave
17. Robin Anne Reid, Anglophone science fiction fandoms, 1920s-2020s
18. Christos Callow, Jr., Science fiction theatre
19. Karen Hellekson, Radio and podcasts
20. Michael Goodrum, Comics from the 1930s to the 1960s
21. Lincoln Geraghty, Science fiction film and television. the 1950s to the 1970s
22. Dan Byrne-Smith, Video, installation art and short science fiction film
23. Rebecca McWilliams Ojala Ballard, Anglophone print fiction. the New Wave to the new millennium
24. Martin Lund, Comics since the late 1960s
25. Dan Hassler-Forest, Transmedia and franchise science fiction
26. Sharon Sharp, Science fiction film and television. the 1980s and 1990s
27. Sunyoung Park, South Korean science fiction
28. Barry Keith Grant, Twenty-first century film
29. Sherryl Vint, Twenty-first century television
30. John Rieder, Anglophone print fiction. the new millennium
31. Taryne Jade Taylor, Diasporic Latinx futurism
Part II. Science Fiction Praxis
32. Jordan S. Carroll, Advertising, prototyping and Silicon Valley culture
33. Glyn Morgan, Alternate history
34. Anna Maria Grzybowska, Animal studies
35. Sherryl Vint, Biopolitics
36. Melody Jue, Climate crisis and environmental humanities
37. Christopher T. Fan, Critical ethnic studies
38. Elizabeth Callaway, Digital cultures
39. Josefine Wälivaara, Disability studies
40. Jonathan Alexander, DIY science fiction
41. Hugh C. O’Connell, Economics and financialisation
42. Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee, Empire
43. Rhys Williams, Energy humanities
44. Rebecca J. Holden, Feminisms
45. Paweł Frelik, Game studies
46. Amy Brookes, Geography, urban design, and architecture
47. Gerry Canavan, Marxism
48. Anna McFarlane and Gavin Miller, Medical humanities
49. Alison Sperling, New materialism
50. Veronica Hollinger, Post/trans/human
51. Beyond Gender Research Collective, Queer and trans theory
52. Brooks Landon, Science fiction tourism
53. Shelley Streeby, Social activism and science fiction
54. Erik Steinskog, Sonic studies
55. Katie Stone, Utopian studies