Animals and Science Fiction

Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction
	Chapter Summaries
	Works Cited
Chapter 2: From Animal Alterity to Animal Studies and SF Today: A Conversation with Sherryl Vint
	Introduction
	The Discussion
	Works Cited
		Primary Reading List
Part I: Affect and Identity
	Chapter 3: “Safe in Each Other’s Scaly Arms”: Solace, Oddkinship, and the Third Position in African Speculative Texts
		Introduction
		The Familiar Other
		The Third Position
		Expansion
		Works Cited
	Chapter 4: Playing the Animal: Imagining the Nonhuman Animal in Two-Dimensional Action and Adventure Games
		Introduction
		Speculation, Play, and Animals
		A Frog Out of Water: Frogger
		Bringing to Light the Fly: The Plan
		Conclusion
		Works Cited
			Ludography
	Chapter 5: Philip K. Dick’s Dr. Bloodmoney and the Species Politics of Risk
		Introduction
		Risky Futures
		Whole Earth Humanism
		Works Cited
Part II: Animal Communication
	Chapter 6: Listening to Nonhuman Animals in Science Fiction Film: Establishing Empathy Through Dinosaur Voices in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
		Introduction
		The Anthropocene, Animal Voice, and Science Fiction
		Sentimentality and the Spectacle of Suffering
		Establishing Subjectivity Through Voice
		“They’re Alive, Like Me”: Sentimentality Versus Subjectivity
		Conclusion: A Post-Anthropocentric Approach to Animal Voices
		Works Cited
	Chapter 7: “Muzzle for the Queen”: Settler–Nonhuman Entanglements in Australian Speculative Ecofiction
		Introduction
		More-Than-Human Communication in The Animals in That Country
		Settler-Nonhuman Mythologies and Postcolonial Badlands in Flames
		Conclusion
		Works Cited
	Chapter 8: Reading the Speaking Animal: Biotechnology and Animal “Uplift” in Adam Roberts’s Bête
		Introduction
		Talking Animals and “Uplift” Sf
		Critical Animal Uplift in Bête
		Intelligence and Subjectivity
		Naming and (Mis)Recognition
		Conclusion
		Works Cited
	Chapter 9: Spacefaring Animals and Their Humans: A Study in Extraction, Exploitation, and Co-evolution
		Introduction
		Agency of the Spacefaring Animal
		Patterns of Extraction and Exploitation
		Cooperation and Co-evolution
		Conclusion
		Works Cited
Part III: Bio-intervention and Corporeality
	Chapter 10: To “Jump” into an Animal’s Body: Empathy, Care, and ResExtendas in Emma Geen’s The Many Selves of Katherine North
		Introduction
		Animal Communication and Bodily Identities
		Research vs. Body Tourism
		Conclusion: The Limits/Benefits of Technology and the Imagination
		Works Cited
	Chapter 11: “Alien Guest, Courting the Goodwill of a Demonic Microbe”: Living Poetry, NHAs, and “Aliens Among Us” in Christian Bök’s The Xenotext: Book 1
		Introduction: The Xenotext and The Xenotext: Book 1
		The Origin of (Alien) Life: “The Late Heavy Bombardment”
		An Alien Guest: “The March of the Nucleotides”
		Alien Microbes and “The Bacterial Sublime”
		Bees and Their Genetic Alienness: “Nucleobases”
		Conclusion
		Works Cited
	Chapter 12: Disemboweling the Hyperreal in Bong Joon-ho’s Okja
		Introduction
		Hyperreality and the Flesh-Food System
		Fabricating Simulacra in Okja
		Disemboweling Simulacra
		Works Cited
	Chapter 13: A Change of Heart: Animality, Power, and Black Posthuman Enhancement in Malorie Blackman’s Pig-Heart Boy
		Introduction
			Boy
			Heart
			Pig
		Posthuman Bodies and Postspecies Boundaries
		Anthropocentrism, Rights, and Power
		Animalized Beings and “The Dreaded Comparison”
		The Promise of Black Enhancement
		Conclusion
		Works Cited
Part IV: Community (Re)building and Entanglements
	Chapter 14: Africanfuturist Assemblages of the Undersea in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon
		Introduction
		Oil and Water
		Multispecies Kinships
		An Africanfuturist Ecocriticism
		Works Cited
	Chapter 15: To Build a World: The Return of Biota in Thomas King’s The Back of the Turtle
		Introduction
		Turtle and the Speculative Mode
		The Return of Biota and Community
		Works Cited
	Chapter 16: A Multispecies Right to the City? Reimagining the Speculative Narratives of Urban Sustainability
		Introduction
		History Repeating: Identifying Problematic Patterns in Urban Design Texts
		Considering the Perspective of Other Animals
		Improving Bringing Back Nature Perspectives
		Works Cited
Part V: (Future) Fossils, Ancestrality, and Haunting
	Chapter 17: Divination with Digital Animals: Sci-fi Realism in Jia Zhangke’s Tian Zhuding (A Touch of Sin)
		Introduction
		Sci-fi Realism: Tracking the Compression of Time
		Online Animals: Weibo and the Logic of the Feed
		The Horse and the Tiger: Animals, Violence, and Political Critique
		The Snake: Ancient and Modern in Compressed Time
		Animals Omens: Reading the Internet, Reading Fate
		Works Cited
	Chapter 18: “The Face of Extinction”: On Haunted Futures with Machine-Animals
		Introduction
		Unpacking the Game World
		Sawtooths and Stormbirds and Scorchers, Oh My!
		Symbiogenesis
		Ghosts of the Past, Visions of the Future
		Speculative Futures
		Works Cited
	Chapter 19: Mesozoic Miscegenation: Erotic Fiction’s Resurrection of Dinosaurs
		Introduction
		The Living Past
		The Modern Era
		Conclusion
		Works Cited
	Chapter 20: A “Speculation Built on Fact”: On Dougal Dixon’s Zoology of the Future
		Introduction
		After Man’s Structure, Methodology, and Materiality
		Reading After Man as Scientific Fiction
		Visualizing a Future Zoology
		Refocusing the Present
		Conclusion
		Works Cited
Index