Truth, Lies, and Speculative Fiction
Confronting Dogmatism, Demagoguery, and Disinformation
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 28 May 2026
- ISBN 9781350551527
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages192 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language 700
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Short description:
An exploration of contemporary speculative fiction's power to intervene in the social, political, and environmental crises and as a means of navigating the supposedly post-truth moment and the deterioration of basic agreement about reality itself.
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An exploration of contemporary speculative fiction's power to intervene in social, political, and environmental crises, this book demonstrates how the genre provides resources against demagogic falsehoods, conspiratorial fantasies, and the denial of scientific and historical evidence.
In the face of conspiracy theories, climate change denial, and cultural warfare over gender, race, and history, speculative fiction's willing suspension of belief, as well as disbelief, enables us to sidestep the barriers to dialogue raised by dogmatism and exit the narrow confines of partisan debate. It offers imaginative possibilities that can help readers ""escape"" from both right-wing demagoguery and status quo complacency. While elaborating this appraisal of speculative fiction in readings of recent work by Amal El Mohtar and Max Gladstone, N. K. Jemisin, Minsoo Kang, Ann Leckie, Arkady Martine, China Mi-ville, Rivers Solomon, and Ben H. Winters, John Rieder's Truth, Lies, and Speculative Fiction urges scholars and teachers to employ speculative fiction's power in secondary and higher education.
Table of Contents:
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Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter One: The Function of Speculation at the Present Time
Chapter Two: Posthuman Protagonists in Recent Space Opera: Ann Leckie's Radch Trilogy and Arkady Martine's Teixcalaan Novels
Chapter Three: Blind Justice and the Eyes of the Police: Ben H. Winters's The Last Policeman and China Mi-ville's The City & The City
Chapter Four: From Cultural Warfare to the Politics of Love: Minsoo Kang's ""The Virtue of Unfaithful Translations"" and Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone's This Is How You Lose the Time War
Chapter Five: The Ground of History: N. K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy and Rivers Solomon's Sorrowland
Afterword
