This book focuses on the interplay of gender, race, and their representation in American science fiction, from the nineteenth-century through to the twenty-firs

Noting that science fiction is characterized by an investment in the proliferation of racial difference, Isiah Lavender III argues that racial alterity is funda

While the connections between science fiction and race have largely been neglected by scholars, racial identity is a key element of the subjectivity constructed

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The narrative of Vera Zarovitch, published in the Cincinnati Commercial in 1880 and 1881, attracted a great deal of attention. It commanded a wide circle of rea