D. Harlan Wilson is a professor of English at Wright State University, the reviews editor of Extrapolation, and the editor-in-chief of Anti-Oedipus Press. He is the author of over 30 books of fiction and nonfiction, including scholarly monographs on J. G. Ballard, Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report, John Carpenter’s They Live, and Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination. In 2025, Stalking Horse Press will publish Wilson’s study of Stanley Kubrick’s futurist films, Strangelove Country: Science Fiction, Filmosophy, and the Kubrickian Consciousness, and he is currently at work on The Auto/Biographies of Philip K. Dick: Infinite Regressions for Routledge’s Auto/Biography Studies series.
D. Harlan Wilson
Articles
A Reluctant Übermensch
D. Harlan Wilson reviews Keanu Reeves and China Miéville’s “The Book of Elsewhere.”
The Daughter Displaces the Island: On Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s “The Daughter of Doctor Moreau”
D. Harlan Wilson reviews Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s “The Daughter of Doctor Moreau.”
Toward an Omega Woman: On Alison Stine’s “Road Out of Winter”
Alison Stine’s “Road Out of Winter” is well written and a poignant reminder of how we chronically neglect ourselves and our world.
Experiments in Postcapitalism: On Dempow Torishima’s “Sisyphean”
Dempow Torishima’s “Sisyphean” is a mosaic novel that combines elements of irrealism, bio-horror, biopunk, fantastika, and techno-absurdity.
Tabloid Psychoanalysis
Can Kyle Arnold can figure out PKD in "The Divine Madness of Philip K. Dick"?
A History of Patriarchy
Nostalgia for Detritus
"After the Saucers Landed" is a work of metafictional science fiction that plays with the postmodern themes of identity, nostalgia, and commodity-culture.
The Magus and His Mediums
Osama bin Laden, Pulp Vigilante
Tidhar is a word-painter, constructing vibrant and poetic landscapes of narrative in spite of the novel’s dark and brooding subject matter.
Words That Kill: Kawamata Chiaki’s “Death Sentences”
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