Series Foreword   vii
 1 Introduction: Whose Science Fiction? 1
 2 Th e Utopian Tradition 19
 3 Futurology and Speculative Design 37
 4 Th e Colonial Imagination 57
 5 Robots, AI, and Transhumanism 75
 6 Genomics, the Microbiome, and Posthumanism 97
 7 Environment, Climate Change, and the
 Anthropocene 117
 8 Economics and Financialization 137
 9 Conclusion: Living in a Science- Fictional World 155
 Acknowledgments 171
 Glossary 173
 Notes 177
 Further Reading 193
 Index 197