After Human: A Critical History of the Human in Science Fiction from Shelley to Le Guin

by Thomas Connolly

Shortlisted for the British Fantasy Awards (Non-Fiction) 2022

Shortlisted for the Locus Science Fiction Foundation Non-Fiction Award 2022

SF has long been understood as a literature of radical potential, capable of imagining entirely new worlds and ways of being. Yet SF has been slow to embrace posthumanist ideas about the human subject. The human of the SF tradition is instead a liminal being, caught somewhere between...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800348169
• ISBN13: 9781800348165
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.3"