Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings

“Categorization . . . is not a passive registering of qualities intrinsic to what is being categorized, but an active intervention in their disposition.

“speculative fiction” as a way of registering the genre’s imaginative engagement with futuristic possibility.

charming romance intermingled with

thinking about alterity and difference that has become a useful critical tool for feminist, antiracist, and other political work.

work that reflects contemporary understandings of SF as a mode of analysis, a way

scientific fact and prophetic vision.

definitions should not be seen as fixed and

antiessentialist conception of SF:

ahistorical but rather as developing in response to changing cultural and institutional pressures.