The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction

The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction provides an overview of the study of science fiction across multiple academic fields. It offers a new conceptualisation of the field today, marking the significant changes that have taken place in sf studies over the past 15 years.

Mark Bould (he/him) is Professor of Film and Literature at the University of the West of England. He is the recipient of the Science Fiction Research Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts Distinguished Scholarship Award. His works include Author of Solaris (2014), Science Fiction: The Routledge Film Guidebook (2012), and The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction (with Sherryl Vint; 2011).

Andrew M. Butler (he/him) is the author of Solar Flares: Science Fiction in the 1970s (2012) and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2019). He is Managing Editor of Extrapolation and chair of judges for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

Sherryl Vint (she/her) is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and Chair of English at the University of California, Riverside. She is the recipient of the Science Fiction Research Association’s Innovative Scholarship and its Lifetime Achievement Awards. Her publications include Science Fiction and Cultural Theory: A Reader (2015) and Science Fiction: A Guide for the Perplexed (2014).