In the twentieth century, the dark side of Utopia-dystopian accounts of places worse than the
ones we live in-took its place in the narrative catalogue of the West and developed in …

Though science fiction has existed as a literary genre for well over a century, a working
definition of the term has yet to be determined. Ursula K. Le Guin, who emerged as a …

History can do many things in the speculative genres. It can aid the reader in suspending
disbelief by providing a “realistic” backstory or backdrop for the current story, as in Frank …

Nnedi Okorafor's Noor (2021) is an Africanfuturist exploration of the female cyborg body that
parallels the ecological damage that out-of-control corporate capitalism is doing to the earth …

This study comprises a close reading and textual analysis of The Sentients of Orion, a space
opera series by Australian author Marianne de Pierres, with a view to investigating the …

The recent# MeToo movement on social media originated in Hollywood as an attempt to
mitigate the drastic under-reporting of sexual harassment and genderbased violence. The …

The recent# MeToo movement on social media originated in Hollywood as an attempt to
mitigate the drastic under-reporting of sexual harassment and genderbased violence. The …

114• Raffaella Baccolini once again, a story of cultural contact, the kind of anthropological
science fiction that is characteristic of Le Guin's work. Like Word, the new novel Ideals with …