Race in American Science Fiction

Noting that science fiction is characterized by an investment in the
proliferation of racial difference, Isiah Lavender III argues that racial alterity
is fundamental to the genre's narrative strategy. Race in American Science Fiction
offers a systematic classification of ways that race appears and how it is silenced
in science fiction, while developing a critical vocabulary designed to focus
attention on often-overlooked racial implications. These focused readings of science
fiction contextualize race within the genre's better-known master narratives and
agendas. Authors discussed include Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, and
Ursula K. Le Guin, among many others.