History and Speculative Fiction

Chapter 1. Introduction to History and Speculative Fiction: Essays in Honor of Gunlög Fur.- Chapter 2. Concurrences and the Planetary Emergency: Ursula K. Le Guin in the Capitalocene.- Chapter 3. Concurrent Whiteness: Science Fiction Film's Close Encounters in Apartheid South Africa.- Chapter 4. Settler Colonial Solutions to Settler Colonial Problems: Settler Cinemas and the Crisis of Colonization of Outer Space.- Chapter 5. The Weirdness of White Strangers: Imaginations of Westerners in Southeast Asian Lore and Tradition.- Chapter 6. How [Not] to Run a Colony in the Distant Past and the Future.- Chapter 7. "I get to exist as a Black person in the world": Bridgerton as Speculative Romance and Alternate History on Screen.- Chapter 8. Ted Chiang's Counterphysical Stories and History of Science Pedagogy.- Chapter 9.The Dark Past of our Bright Future: Concurrent Histories of Star Trek: Voyager.- Chapter 10. The Wild Boar Never Strikes without Cause: Monstrous Hybrids, National Identity and Gender in the Horror Movie Chawu.- Chapter 11. Heritaging and the Use of History in Margit Sandemo's The Legend of the Ice People.- Chapter 12. Shadowing the Brutality and Cruelty of Nature: On History and Human Nature in Princess Mononoke.- Chapter 13. Intervening in the Present through Fictions of the Future.- Chapter 14. Building a Kinship Society (short story).

John L. Hennessey is a research fellow in the History of Ideas and Sciences at Lund University. He has published on global colonial history and the history of science in journals including Science in Context, History and Anthropology, French Colonial History, Settler Colonial Studies and Japan Review.