Race in American Science Fiction

<p>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. <i>Race in American Science Fiction</i> 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.</p>