Hugh Charles O’Connell is an assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His current research examines the relationship between speculative fiction and speculative finance. He is the co-editor with David M. Higgins of Speculative Finance/Speculative Fiction, a special issue of CR: The New Centennial Review 19.1. Recent essays on British and postcolonial science fiction have appeared in Utopian Studies, The Cambridge History of Science Fiction, Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, Modern Fiction Studies, and Paradoxa.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

Banking on the Future: Ian McDonald’s “Luna: Moon Rising”
Hugh Charles O’Connell observes "Luna: Moon Rising" by Ian McDonald....

The Earth Strikes Back! Post-Thatcherite Neoliberalism in Ian McDonald’s “Luna: Wolf Moon”
“Luna: Wolf Moon” reminds us that space-utopianism based on imperial or neoliberal ideals will not escape the gravity well of such dystopian foundations....

The Moon is an Even Harsher CEO
"Luna: New Moon" is the contemporary novel of permanently indebted humanity, burning with the desperate anxieties of our hyper-financialized age...
