Colloquy: issue thirty-five/thirty-six
Colloquy: issue 35/36
(Un)Ethical Futures: Utopia, Dystopia and Science Fiction – special double issue
Articles
Of Lost Kingdoms and Strange Moments: Subjective Utopianism in Michel Houellebecq’s Les Particules élémentaires
Françoise Campbell
“Wealth Is the Only Reality”: Blake’s 7 and Thatcherism
Philip Braithwaite
The Point of View of the Animal: An Ontology and Ethics of Alterity in Emma Geen’s The Many Selves of Katherine North
João Vicente Faustino
The Poetics of Size: Rendering Apocalyptic Scale in Nevil Shute’s On the Beach and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
Eleanor Smith
“Let the Freaking Canning Begin”: Human Waste in the Workplaces of George Saunders’s Pastoralia (2000)
Freya Verlander
Messianic Nihilism in Gothic Horror: Walter Benjamin with Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe
Ursula de Leeuw
Heterocosms of Machinic Desire: Philip Reeve’s Mortal Engines Quartet as Propulsive Dystopia
Adam Lovasz
H. P. Lovecraft’s Weird Tale Ideal: Angela Carter’s New Weird Dystopia
Anne-Maree Wicks
Creative Writing
Stranded Assets
Jason Nahrung
A Branching Narrative
Kane Simpson
Guest editors
The guest editorial team for this special issue comprised postgraduate students from Monash University and the University of Warwick:
Special issue editors-in-chief: Zachary Kendal and Aisling Smith
Special issue associate editors: Joshua Bulleid, Giulia Champion, Sean Mulcahy and JungJu Shin