David M. Higgins is the Speculative Fiction Editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books. He teaches English at Inver Hills Community College in Minnesota, and he is a specialist in 20th-century American literature and culture. His research explores transformations in imperial fantasy during the Cold War period and beyond. Higgins’s article “Toward a Cosmopolitan Science Fiction” won the 2012 Science Fiction Research Association’s Pioneer Award for excellence in scholarship. He has published in journals such as American Literature, Science Fiction Studies, Science Fiction Film and Television, and Extrapolation, and his work has appeared in edited volumes such as The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
The Name of This Feeling Is Revolution: On David Mitchell’s “Utopia Avenue”
David M. Higgins travels down “Utopia Avenue,” the latest novel from David Mitchell....
Escaping from Shadow: Monte Cook’s “Invisible Sun”
Surrealism versus escapism in a new roleplaying game....
A Glorious Mythology of Loss: Alan Moore’s “Jerusalem”
David M. Higgins reviews Alan Moore’s new novel, “Jerusalem.”...
“Doctor Strange” and the Trump Presidency
"Doctor Strange" grasps the deepest ideological fantasies of our era: On both the left and the right, we yearn to revise the catastrophes we couldn't stop....
Salvaging the Future
A review of a special journal issue on “The Futures Industry.”...
