Table of Contents

• Introduction
• 1. The Self and Representations of the Other in Science Fiction
• 2. Resistance Is Futile: Silencing and Cultural Appropriation
• 3. The word for world Is Forest: Metaphor and Empire in Science Fiction
• 4. Things Fall Apart: Relativity, Distance and the Periphery
• 5. Moments of Empire: Perceptions of Lasswitz and Wells
• 6. Exoticising the Future: American greats
• 7. The Shape of Things to Come: Homo futuris and the Imperial Project
• 8. A Postcolonial Imagination: kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars
• 9. Beyond Empire: Meta-empire and Postcoloniality
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

About the Author

Patricia Kerslake is Adjunct Senior Lecturer at Central Queensland University and a contributor to 'The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy'.

Reviews

Science Fiction and Empire is thought-provoking and insightful, ... the kind of large-scale postcolonial work that sf has needed for quite some time.