A different kind of Star Trek television series debuted in 1993. Deep Space Nine was set not
on a starship but a space station near a postcolonial planet still reeling from a genocidal …

Hollywood science fiction's predilection for Western classical music has been critiqued for
presenting such music as the unrivalled apex of human cultural achievement. Building on …

This contribution proposes to explore different forms of postcapitalist futures that have been
imagined in science fiction and analyze their reflexive potential. The field of studies on …

Amazon is the world's largest retailer and one of its largest corporations and employers. It is
aggressively seeking to reshape the future. This comes at the expense of its workers, who …

The present book centers on the American science fiction (SF) film in the twenty-first century.
Currently, SF is one of the most popular film genres. This is evident not only from the …

Like so many space crisis dramas, both fictive and historical, articles attending to the
scientific credentials of The Martian (Dir. Ridley Scott, 2015) prefigured its release, and the …

The Conjuring (2013) opens with a prologue in which a group of terrified flatmates recount a
haunting story to paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson, Vera …

In Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon, literary critic Marc McGurl (2021)
notes that the corporation, which in a short 25 years has become the world's largest retailer …

Even as Louise Erdrich mounts her exposé of the woeful legal situation governing
Indigenous peoples in The Round House, the novel suggests a way forward in its chapter …

This paper examines how tech industry leaders, who I dub “nerd billionaires,” use
references to Star Trek (ST) as a way to connect with the positive impression fans have of its …