Further Reading

Autonomy Of Androids: The Male Gaze In Science Fiction

Attitudes about the male gaze have been present in science fiction cinema for years, especially relating to the identity of female robots...

Cyberfeminism Index

Cyberfeminism Index is INCOMPLETE and ALWAYS IN PROGRESS. Commissioned by Rhizome, it premiered with New Museum’s First Look...

How Afrofuturism Can Help the World Mend

In a year that's broken the world and shattered reality, imagining Black futures can help plot a pathway to recovery...

How Chinese Sci-Fi Conquered America

The translator Ken Liu has done more than anyone to bridge the gap between Chinese science fiction and American readers...

Is the future female? Fixing sci-fi’s women problem

Recently, I was asked if I could write a short story for a science fiction collection about “women inventing the future”. Could I write it in four weeks...

Joanna Russ, the Science-Fiction Writer Who Said No

The idea started innocuously enough. In 1975, one Jeff Smith, the publisher of the fanzine Khatru, moderated a symposium in letters on “Women in Science Fiction.”

The Aesthetics of Science Fiction. What does SciFi Look Like After Cyberpunk?

The first in a two-part series on the evolution of design in Science Fiction.

Typography Meets Sci-Fi

How can UK graphic design, illustrator, comics artist, author of a stack popular culture books, and now novelist, do it all...

The waves of feminism, and why people keep fighting over them, explained

If you have no idea which wave of feminism we’re in right now, read this.