"A growing awareness of climate change and looming planetary crisis has put unprecedented pressure on the near future, leading to an increasing amount of fictio

A growing awareness of climate change and looming planetary crisis has put unprecedented pressure on the near future, leading to an increasing amount of fiction

This volume explores the most exciting trends in 21st century US fiction's genres, themes, and concepts.

A theorization of how the bioeconomy and biotechnology remake 'life itself,' creating crises in ethics and governance.

This lively new volume of essays examines what happens now in 21st century fiction. Fresh theoretical approaches to writers such as Salman Rushdie, David Peace,