![]() ![]() This emphasis on action might be a harbinger of one possible future of this kind of cultural study, a future shown emerging-suitably unevenly amid the wide diversity of these essays-out of the multiple crises of the present. No wonder so many of them dream of action: SF as an active doing, a form of activism, rather than as a passive body of texts consumed in quarantined isolation, behind shuttered doors, away from the emptied-out public sphere. ![]() Many of the roughly 40 essayists (including the book’s editors Ida Yoshinaga, Sean Guynes, and Gerry Canavan) refer to the lockdown conditions in which they wrote their contributions through the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. UNEVEN FUTURES: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction (2022), a large-scale communal project of a book, is a fascinating snapshot of what the science fiction community has become in the 2020s-as a multimedia genre, an area of academic study, a set of tropes to be made and remade by makers, or a form of political praxis. ![]()
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