Resources

Worldbuilding and Speculative Thought

N.K. Jemisin’s World-building 101

“On the Poetics of Science Fiction Genre” by Darko Suvin

In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination by Margaret Atwood

Hard Worldbuilding vs Soft Worldbuilding

Writing the Other: A Practical Approach by Nisi Shawl

Writing Science Fiction Out of Experience (Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson)

Alternative Histories and SF

Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)

Irene Clyde’s Beatrice the Sixteenth (1909)

Isaac Asimov’s The End of Eternity (1955)

Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World (1666)

If It Had Happened Otherwise (1931)

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossein’s Sultana’s Dream (1905)

Ryo Hanmura’s Musubi no Yama Hiroku (1973)

Richard Garfinkle’s Celestial Matters (1996)

Joanna Russ’ The Female Man (1975)

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818)

Aritsune Toyota’s Mongoru no Zankou (1967)

Barry Bughart’s Bridge of Birds (1984)

Frances E.W. Harper’s Iola Leroy (1892)

Philip K. Dick’s The Man in The High Castle (1962)

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)

Others

Ursula K. Le Guin: Panel Discussion with Donna Haraway and James Clifford, 5/8/14

A substantial list of resources from Utopian Acts Network “Decolonizing Utopia”

A similar project by Lisa Messeri

NatureCulture Special Issue “Experiments in Thinking across Worlds”

“Speculative Anthropologies” at Society for Cultural Anthropology

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