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about the contributors Christina alt is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Sydney, currently researching intersections between early ecology and literary modernism. She will be taking up a lectureship at the University of St Andrews in 2013. brent bellaMy is a PhD candidate in English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, writing a dissertation on contemporary U.S. post-apocalyptic fiction. gerry Canavan is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Marquette University, teaching twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature. He is currently at work on two book projects: one on SF and totality, and the other on the work of Octavia Butler. He is also (with Eric Carl Link) the editor of The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction. sabine höhler is an Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Recently she has finished a book-length study titled Spaceship Earth: Envisioning Human Habitats in the Environmental Age that explores ecological discourses on the Earth’s “life support systems” between 1960 and 1990. adeline Johns-PUtra is Reader in English Literature at the University of Surrey. Her books include The History of the Epic (2006) and, edited with Catherine Brace, Landscape: Process and Text (2010). She is currently editing a special issue on climate change for the journal symplokē. Melody JUe is a PhD candidate in the Program in Literature at Duke University, writing her dissertation on intersections between ecological thinking and oceanic literatures, with particular interest in oceanic SF. rob lathaM is Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. A senior editor of Science Fiction Studies, he is the author of Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of Consumption (2002) and coeditor of The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010). He is currently editing The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction. andreW Milner is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Monash University in Melbourne, Honorary Research Fellow in the School of English at the University of Liverpool, and the Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack Visiting Professor of Australian Studies for 2013 in the Institut für Englische Philologie at the Freie Universität Berlin. His recent published work includes Tenses of Imagination (2010) and Locating Science Fiction (2012). tiMothy Morton holds the Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University, where he lectures on literature, ecology, and critical theory. He is the author of Ecology without Nature (2007) and The Ecological Thought (2010), as well as the forthcoming Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality. eriC C. otto is Associate Professor of Environmental Humanities at Florida Gulf Coast 282 O f fu rthe r I nte r e st University. He is the author of Green Speculations: Science Fiction and Transformative Environmentalism (2012). MiChael Page teaches English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is currently working on two book projects, Views of the Land: Romanticism, Agriculture, Landscape, and Ecology and Ecology and Science Fiction. ChristoPher PalMer is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication, Arts, and Critical Enquiry at Australia’s La Trobe University. He is the author of multiple investigations into SF and related genres, including Philip K. Dick: Exhilaration and Terror of the Postmodern (2003). gib PrettyMan is Associate Professor of English at Penn State Fayette. His recent work focuses on the role of Eastern religions in SF and utopia, with an emphasis on the work of Aldous Huxley, Ursula Le Guin, and Kim Stanley Robinson. He also serves as associate editor of Resources for American Literary Study. kiM stanley robinson is the Hugo-, Nebula-, and Locus-Award-winning author of myriad SF novels and stories, including most recently Galileo’s Dream (2009) and 2312 (2012). elzette steenkaMP recently completed a PhD in English at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. Her research focuses on the treatment of ecological crisis in South African speculative fiction. She is currently working as the production manager of LitNet Akademies, an online academic journal based in Stellenbosch, South Africa. iMre szeMan is Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies and Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. He is the author, coauthor, or coeditor of ten books to date, including most recently Cultural Theory: An Anthology (2010, coeditor) and Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: The Johns Hopkins Guide (2012, coeditor). He is currently working on a book on the cultural politics of oil. ...