Worldbuilding and Speculative Thought
In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination by Margaret Atwood
Writing the Other: A Practical Approach by Nisi Shawl
Writing Science Fiction Out of Experience (Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson)
Alternative Histories and SF
Ryo Hanmura’s Musubi no Yama Hiroku (1973)
Richard Garfinkle’s Celestial Matters (1996)
Aritsune Toyota’s Mongoru no Zankou (1967)
Barry Bughart’s Bridge of Birds (1984)
Hiroshi Aramata’s Teito Monogatari (1983)
Futaro Yamada’s Maten Ninpoucho (1965)
Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) and Oryx and Crake (2003)