Sherryl Vint teaches at the University of California, Riverside. She co-edits the journals Science Fiction Studies, Science Fiction Film and Television and Humanimalia. She is the author of Bodies of Tomorrow and Animal Alterity, co-author of The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction, and co-editor of the books The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction, Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction and Beyond Cyberpunk.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
The Technologies That Remake Us: On Ted Chiang’s “Exhalation: Stories”
“Exhalation: Stories” is a stunning achievement in speculative fiction, from an author whose star will only continue to rise....
Accounts and Accountability
Transcending hate and hope in China Miéville's "This Census-Taker"....
Excavating a Future
"The Water Knife" oscillates between nightmarish fantasy and discerning perception....
California in Science Fiction: The Future is Here
California is SF's natural home....
Don’t Let the Future Be Written For You: Sabrina Vourvoulias’s “Ink”
IN HER 2010 BOOK Walled States, Waning Sovereignty, political theorist Wendy Brown examines the recent trend of building physical walls to ...
Pulp Science
One story about the origins of science fiction points to the specialty pulp magazines that appeared in the 1920s, when terms ...
Advertising Degree Zero: William Gibson's "Zero History"
This future is a scarier place, by far, than any that SF has yet imagined....
