Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction - Paperback

by Mark Bould (Editor), China Mieville (Editor), China Miéville (Editor)

As a genre, sf is ideally suited to critiquing the present through its explorations of the social and political possibilities of the future. This is the first collection to combine analyses of sf literature and films within a broader overview of Marxist theory and critical perspectives on the genre.

Covering a rich variety of examples from Weimar cinema to mainstream Hollywood films, and novelists from Jules Verne and H.G. Wells to Kim Stanley Robinson, Ken MacLeod and Charles Stross, this is an indespensible insight into how Marxism and science fiction go hand-in-hand.

Author Biography

Mark Bould is Reader in Film and Literature at the University of the West of England. He is an advisory editor for Extrapolation, Historical Materialism, Paradoxa and Science Fiction Studies. He is the co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction (Routledge, 2009) and Red Planets (Pluto, 2009).

China Mieville lives and works in London. He is three-time winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award and has also won the British Fantasy Award twice. He is the author of October (Verso, 2017), The City and The City (Macmillan, 2011) Between Equal Rights (Pluto, 2006) and editor of Red Planets (Pluto, 2009).