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Science fiction: General resources

This guide provides resources about the science fiction genre in the visual arts, literature, movies plus related themes and issues.

Recommended books

Recommended articles

Boyer, M. Christine. “The Imaginary Real World of CyberCities.” Assemblage, no. 18, 1992, pp. 115–27 (Available via Jstor)

Bruno, Giuliana. “Ramble City: Postmodernism and ‘Blade Runner.’” October, vol. 41, 1987, pp. 61–74 (Available via Jstor)

"Science fiction studies" Scholarly journal published since 1973 (Articles available via Jstor)

Other resources

Futurism - "Science and technology news and videos on breakthroughs that are shaping the world of tomorrow"

The Imitation Game: AI Glossary - artifact of an exhibition organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery, 2022

Journal of Future Studies (Graduate Institute of Futures Studies, Tamkang University, Taiwan)

Vector - journal of the British Science Fiction Association 

Recommended for all architectural research

Note:

This guide provides resources about the science fiction genre in the visual arts, literature, movies plus related themes and issues.

For resources specific to 20th century movements such as Futurism, Metabolism, Avant-garde architecture, etc., please see Kappe Library's Architectures of World Modernism 1880-1980 resource guide.

Resources on the genre of science fiction in visual arts, literature & movies

Adler, Charles L., Wizards, aliens, and starships : physics and math in fantasy and science fiction, Princeton University Press, 2014 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Allan, Kathryn (editor), Disability in science fiction : representations of technology as cure, Palgrave Macmillan, PN3433.6 .D57 2013

Bould, Mark & Sherryl Vint, The Routledge concise history of science fiction, Routledge, 2011 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Erkenbrecher, Christian, The "Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" revisited : motifs of science fiction and social criticism, Diplomica Verlag, 2011 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Evans, Arthur B. (editor), Vintage Visions : Essays on Early Science Fiction, Wesleyan University Press, 2014 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Marques, Pedro Neves (editor), YWY, searching for a character between future worlds : gender, ecology, science fiction, Sternberg Press, N7133.M37 Y89 2021

Roh, David S., et al (editors), Techno-Orientalism : imagining Asia in speculative fiction, history, and media, Rutgers University Press, PN3433.6 .T43 2015

Vint, Sherryl, Science fiction : a guide for the perplexed, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Willems, Brian, Speculative realism and science fiction, Edinburgh University Press, PN3433.5 .W55 2017

GRAPHIC NOVELS

Anderson, Ho Che, Godhead, Fantagraphics Books, PN6727.A527 G632 2022 vols.1 & 2

Benassaya, Romain, Project Arka : into the dark unknown, Humanoids, PN6747 .B4637 2023

Ellis, Grace & Hannah Templer, Flung out of space : inspired by the indecent adventures of Patricia Highsmith, Abrams ComicArts, PN6727.E4454 F57 2022

Genefort, Laurent, Sap hunters, Humanoids, PQ2667.E473 .S27 2023

Guillory, Rob, Mosely, Boom! Studios, PN6728 .M6745 2023

Hickman, Jonathan, Decorum, Image Comics, PN6728.D364 H53 2022

Hickman, Jonathan, East of West, Image Comics, PN6728.E27 H53 2013 vols.1 & 2

Holt, Jeremy, Made in Korea, Image Comics, PN6728.M3343 H56 2022 vol.1

Howard, Sheena C., Encyclopedia of Black comics, Fulcrum Publishing, PN6707 .H69 2017

Jodorowsky, Alejandro, The Incal, Humanoids, PN6747.J63 I5313 2014

Jodorowsky, Alejandro, The Jodorowsky library. Final incal ; After the incal ; Weapons of the metabaron ; Metabarons genesis: castaka ; selected short stories, Humanoids, PN6747.J63 A6 2022

Jones, Sebastian A., Niobe. Vol. 2, She is death, Stranger Comics, PN6727 .J664 2020

Jones, Sebastian A., The untamed. Vol. 2. Killing floor, Stranger Comics, PN6728.U58 J664 2017

Kaplan, Zack, Metal society, Image Comics, PN6728.M425 K37 2022

Kaplan, Zack, Break out, Dark Horse Books, PN6728.B673 K37 2023

Kotian, Siddharth, Beneath an alien sky. Vol. 1. Rocketship Entertainment, PN6728.B464 K68 2022

LaValle, Victor, Destroyer, BOOM! Studios, PN6728.V53 L38 2017

LaValle, Victor, Eve, BOOM! Studios, PN6728.E8558 L38 2022 vols. 1 & 2

Mercado, Yehudi, Rocket Salvage, Roar, PN6728.R6348 M47 2018

Miranda, Inaki, We live. Vol. 1, Aftershock Comics, PN6728.W4 M57 2022

Monteys, Albert, Universe!, Image Comics, PN6777.M66 U5513 2021

Nocenti, Ann & David Aja, The seeds : a graphic tale in four acts, Berger Books, PN6728.S425 N63 2020

Otomo, Katsuhiro, Akira. Book 1, Kodansha Comics, PN6790.J34 A4513 2009

Ottaviani, Jim, Astronauts : women on the final frontier, First Second Books, TL789.85.A1O88 2020

Pak, Greg, Mech Cadets. Book one, BOOM! Studios, PN6728.M396 P35 2023

Paknadel, Alex, Giga. Vol. 1, Vault, PZ7.7 .P152 2023

Pope, Paul, 100%, Image Comics, PN6727.P665 A15 2020

Pope, Paul, Heavy liquid, Image Comics, PN6728.H379 P675 2019

Remender, Rick, Black science compendium, Image Comics, PN6728.B51936 R46 2023

Remender, Rick, Tokyo ghost. Volume one, The atomic garden, Image Comics, PN6727.R389 T6566 2016 vol.1

Remender, Rick, Tokyo ghost. Volume two, Come join us, Image Comics, PN6727.R389 T6566 2016 vol.2

Ridley, John, The other history of the DC Universe, DC Comics, PN6728.O84 R53 2022

Shadmi, Koren, Bionic, Top Shelf Productions, PN6727.S464 B56 2020

Thomas, Brandon, Excellence. Volume oneKill the past, Image Comics, PN6728.E87 T47 2022 vol.1

Thomas, Brandon, Excellence. Volume twoThe present tense, Image Comics, PN6728.E87 T47 2022 vol.2

Vaughan, Brian K., We stand on guard, Image Comics, PN6728.W4 V38 2016

Vaughan, Brian K., et al, The private eye, Image Comics, PN6727.V387 P78 2015

Vaughan, Brian K., Saga, Image Comics, PN6727.V387 S24 2012 vols.1 & 2

Vaughan, Brian K., Paper girls, Image Comics, PN6728.P36 V39 2017 vols.1 & 2

Abbott, Carl, Imagining urban futures : cities in science fiction and what we might learn from them, Wesleyan University Press, 2016 (Ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Balåasim, Hasan, et al (editors), Iraq + 100 : stories from a century after the invasion, Comma Press, PJ8046.5.E5 I73 2016

Byrne-Smith, Dan, Science fiction, MIT Press, PN3433.6 .S373 2020

Callenbach, Ernest, Ecotopia: the notebooks and reports of William Weston, Banyan Tree Books, PS3553.A424E35 (Utopian sci-fi)

Dillon, Grace L. (editor), Walking the clouds : an anthology of indigenous science fiction, University of Arizona Press, PS648.S3 W35 2012

Edwards, Justin D., et al. (editors), Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth : The Gothic Anthropocene, University of Minnesota Press, 2022 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Eschrich, Joey & Clark A Miller (editors), Cities of light, Center for Science and the Imagination, Arizona State University, 2018 (full text PDF)

Eschrich, Joey & Clark A Miller (editors), The weight of light: a collection of solar futures, Center for Science and the Imagination, Arizona State University, 2018 (full text PDF)

Ghalayini, Basma (editor), Palestine + 100, Deep Vellum, 2022 (Ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Hamilton, Denise (editor), Speculative Los Angeles, Akashic Books, PS648.S3 S614 2021

Jameson, Fredric, Archaeologies of the future : the desire called utopia and other science fictions, Verso, PS648.S3 J36 2007

Little, Judith A. (editor), Feminist philosophy and science fiction : utopias and dystopias, Prometheus Books, PS374.S35 F47 2007

McCaffery, Larry (editor), Storming the reality studio : a casebook of cyberpunk and postmodern science fiction, Duke University Press, PS374.S35 S76 1991

Mehan, Uppinder & Nalo Hopkinson, So long been dreaming : postcolonial science fiction & fantasy, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004 (Ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Merla-Watson, Cathryn Josefina & B.V. Olguín (editors), Altermundos : Latin@ speculative literature, film, and popular culture, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press, PS153.H56 A59 2017

Roh, David S., et al (editors), Techno-Orientalism : imagining Asia in speculative fiction, history, and media, Rutgers University Press, 2015 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Shurin, Jared (editor), The big book of cyberpunk, Vintage Books, PN6120.95.S33 B48 2023

Thomas, Sheree R. (editor), Dark matter : a century of speculative fiction from the African diaspora, Warner Books, PS648.S3 D37 2000

VanderMeer, Ann & Jeff (editors), Sisters of the revolution : a feminist speculative fiction anthology, PM Press, 2015 (Ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Willems, Brian, Speculative realism and science fiction, Edinburgh University Press, PN3433.5 .W55 2017

Yaszek, Lisa (editor), The future is female! : more classic science fiction stories by women: volume two: the 1970s, Library of America, 2023 (Ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Addey, David, Typeset in the future : typography and design in science fiction movies, Abrams, PN1995.9.S26 A33 2018

Brode, Douglas, Fantastic planets, forbidden zones, and lost continents: the 100 greatest science-fiction films, University of Texas Press, PN1995.9.S26 .B763 2015eb (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Brooker, Will (editor), The Blade Runner experience: the legacy of a science fiction classic, Columbia University Press, PN1997.B596 B53 2005eb (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Cornea, Christine, Science fiction cinema: between fantasy and reality, Edinburgh University Press, PN1995.9.S26 C67 2007eb (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Feeley, Jenifer L. & Sarah Ann Wells (editors), Simultaneous worlds: global science fiction cinema, University of Minnesota Press, PN1995.9.S26 .S568 2015eb (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Kuhn, Annette (editor), Alien zone: cultural theory and contemporary science fiction cinema, Verso, PN1995.9.S26A818 1990

Kuhn, Annette (editor), Alien zone II: the spaces of science fiction cinema, Verso, PN1995.9.S26A8184 1999

Madhubuti, Haki R. & Herb Boyd, Black panther : paradigm shift or not? : a collection of reviews and essays on a blockbuster film, Third World Press Foundation, PN1997.2.B581 B53 2019

Marques, Pedro Neves (editor), YWY, searching for a character between future worlds : gender, ecology, science fiction, Sternberg Press, N7133.M37 Y89 2021

Nama, Adilifu, Black space : imagining race in science fiction film, University of Texas Press, PN1995.9.S26 N36 2008eb (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Perkowitz, Sidney, Hollywood science: movies, science, and the end of the world, Columbia University Press, PN1995.9.S26 P47 2010eb (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central) 

Reagin, Nancy Ruth (editor), Star Trek and history, Wiley, PN1992.8.S74 S726 2013

Telotte, J. P., Science fiction film, Cambridge University Press, PN1995.9.S26 T45 2001eb (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Whittington, William, Sound design and science fiction, University of Texas Press, TR897 .W47 2007eb (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Hernandez, Robb, Mundo alternos: art and science fiction in the Americas, University of California, Riverside, N8239.S66M86 2017

Mead, Syd & Craig Hodgetts, The movie art of Syd Mead : visual futurist, Titan Books, NC139.M4 A4 2017

Montross, Sarah J., Past futures : science fiction, space travel, and postwar art of the Americas, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, MIT Press, N8239.S66 P37 2015

Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Indigenous futurisms : transcending past/present/future, MoCNA, N6351.2.I53 M88 2020

Scott, Amy (editor), Future imaginaries : indigenous art, fashion, technology, Autry Museum of the American West and University of Washington Press, N6538.A4 F88 2024

Timberlake, John, Landscape and the science fiction imaginary, Intellect Books, N8239.S66 T56 2018

Resources on related themes & issues

Anderson, Kayla, “Ethics, Ecology, and the Future: Art and Design Face the Anthropocene,” Leonardo, vol. 48, no. 4, 2015, pp. 338–47 (PDF via Jstor)

Ciambaretta, Philippe, et al (editors), Inhabiting the Anthropocene, Stream / PCA, HT151 .I54 2014

Demos, T. J., Against the anthropocene : visual culture and environment today, Sternberg Press, GF50 .D46 2017

Haraway, Donna Jeanne, Staying with the trouble : making kin in the Chthulucene, Duke University Press, QL85 .H369 2016

Issberner, Liz-Rejane & Philippe Léna, "Anthropocene: the vital challenges of a scientific debate," The UNESCO Courier, [2018?]

Tsing, Anna L., et al (editors), Feral Atlas : the more-than-human Anthropocene, Stanford University, 2021 (open access eBook)

"The term "Anthropocene" is popular - and problematic," Scientific American, December 1, 2018

Chaillou, Stanislas, Artificial intelligence and architecture : from research to practice, Birkhauser, TA347.A78 C43 2022

Cheng, Ian, Emissaries guide to worlding : how to navigate the unnatural art of creating an infinite game by choosing a present, storytelling its past, simulating its futures, and nurturing its changes, Koenig Books, Office-N7433.85.C44 E45 2018 

Daugherty, Paul R., Human + machine : reimagining work in the age of AI, Harvard Business Review Press, T173.8 .D38 2018

Foster, David, Generative deep learning : teaching machines to paint, write, compose, and play, O'Reilly, Q325.5 .F67 2019

Kammerbauer, Mark, "Machines like us," Topos, 2020, #12, p.52-55

Leach, Neil, Architecture in the age of artificial intelligence : an introduction for architects, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, NA2543.T43 L43 2022

Lee, Kai-Fu & Chen Qiufan, AI 2041 : ten visions for our future, WH Allen, PL2933.E526 A625 2021

"Machine hallucinations : architecture and artificial intelligence," Architectural Design, May/June 2022 (Theme issue)

May, Kyle (editor-in-chief), Artificial intelligence, CLOG, Q334.7 .A779 2018

Murphy, Robin, Introduction to AI robotics, MIT Press, TJ211 .M865 2019

Walsh, Niall Patrick, "Introducing the 'Archinect In-Depth: Artificial Intelligence' series," Archinect, May 1, 2023

Curl, James Stevens, Making dystopia: : the strange rise and survival of architectural barbarism, Oxford University Press, NA680 .C87 2018

Donetti, Dario (editor), Architecture and Dystopia, Actar Publishers, NA680 .A6848 2019

Keith, Vanessa, 2100 : a dystopian utopia : the city after climate change, Terreform, QC981.8.G56 K45 2017

Zähringer, Raphael, Hidden topographies : traces of urban reality in dystopian fiction, Walter de Gruyter, 2017 (Ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Buck, Holly Jean, After geoengineering : climate tragedy, repair, and restoration, Verso, TD171.9 .B835 2019

Gabrys, Jennifer, Program earth : environmental sensing technology and the making of a computational planet, University of Minnesota Press, GE45.R44 G33 2016

Ghosn, Rania, et al. (project team), The planet after geoengineering : design Earth, Actar, TA170 .P53 2021

Lehmann, Philipp, Desert Edens : colonial climate engineering in the age of anxiety, Princeton University Press, Q124.6 .L446 2022

Cohen, Jean-Louis, The future of architecture, since 1889, Phaidon, NA2540 .C57 2012

Dunlop, Tim, The future of everything : big, audacious ideas for a better world, University of South Wales Press, 2018 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Getachew, Adom, et al. (editors), Imagining global futures, Boston Review, H61.4 .I534 2022

Jäger, Jill & Sarah Cornell (editors), The planet in 2050 : the Lund discourse of the future, Routledge, 2011 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Jencks, Charles, Architecture 2000; predictions and methods, Praeger, NA680 .J45 1971b

Lally, Sean, The air from other planets : a brief history of architecture to come, Lars Muller, NA2540 .L255x 2014

Maas, Winy & Tihamér Salij, We want world wonders : building architectural myths, NAI010, NA2540 .M33x 2014

Murphy, Douglas, Last futures : nature, technology and the end of architecture, Verso, NA2750 .M87 2016

Pernice, Raffaele (editor), The urbanism of Metabolism : visions, scenarios and models for the mutant city of tomorrow, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, HT166 .U746 2022

Sterling, Bruce, Shaping things, MIT Press, T174 .S77 2005

Sterling, Bruce, Tomorrow now : envisioning the next fifty years, Random House, HM901 .S74 2002

Abbott, Carl, Imagining urban futures : cities in science fiction and what we might learn from them, Wesleyan University Press, 2016 (via Ebook Central)

Batty, Michael, Inventing future cities, MIT Press, HT371 .B38 2018

Cappelli, Lucas & Vicente Guallart (editors), Self sufficient city : envisioning the habitat of the future : 3rd advanced architecture contest, Actar; IaaC, NA9053.E58 S45 2010

Gardner, William O., The metabolist imagination : visions of the city in postwar Japanese architecture and science fiction, University of Minnesota Press, NA2543.B56 G37 2020

Joachim, Mitchell & Maria Aiolova, Design with life : biotech architecture and resilient cities, Actar, NA2542.35 .J53 2019

Klanten, Robert & Lukas Feireiss (editors), Utopia forever : visions of architecture and urbanism, Gestalten, NA209.5 .U86 2011

Pernice, Raffaele, The urbanism of Metabolism : visions, scenarios and models for the mutant city of tomorrow, Routledge, HT166 .U746 2022

Sheckley, Robert, Futuropolis, Bergström and Boyle; Big O Pub., NC961.7.S34 S44 1979

Young, Liam, et al., Planet city, Uro Publications, HT241 .Y68 2020

"Alternative Sinofuturisms," SFRA Review, Vol.50, #2-3, 2020 (special issue, available for download)

Aysha, Emad El-Din. “Science Fiction by, about, and for Arabs: Case Studies in De-Orientalising the Western Imagination,” ReOrient, Vol.6, #1, 2020, p.4–19 (downloadable PDF via JSTOR)

Chan, Dawn, "Asia-Futurism," Artforum, Summer 2016

Davies, Harry, "Afrofuturism: how Black creatives point to a brighter future," Domestika, February 28, 2021

"Indigenous futures," Art Journal, Vol.76, #2, 2017 (Theme issue. Full text PDFs available via Taylor & Francis Online)

"Indigenous Futurisms: transcending past/present/future," IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) (Exhibition virtual tour via Matterport)

Padder, Sadaf, "Coasting the topography of South Asian Futurisms," Hyperallergic, March 27, 2023

Rodriguez, K. D., Afro-Latinx Futurism: a history of Black and Brown arts from 1781–2018UCLA, 2020 (Dissertation retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/20s8s43x)

Strait, Kevin & Kinshasha Holman Conwill, Afrofuturism : a history of Black futures, Smithsonian Books, CB235 .A348 2023

Tempone, Denise, "What is futurism and how does it influence art and design?Domestika, July 30, 2021

"What is Indigenous futurism?" Center for Architecture Lab: Indigenous Scholars of Architecture, Planning and Design (ISAPD)

"ERO: Concrete Recyclig Robot," Industrial Designers Society of America, 2013 (project designed by Omer Haciomeroglu of Umeå Institute of Design of Design, Turkey)

Estévez, Alberto T. & Yomna K. Abdallah, AI to matter-reality : art, architecture & design, iBAG-UIC, N7433.85 .E88 2022

Ginsberg, Alexandra Daisy, et al (editors), Synthetic aesthetics : investigating synthetic biology's designs on nature, MIT Press, QP517.B569 S96 2014

Sheil, Bob, et al., (editors), Design transactions: rethinking information modelling for a new material age, UCL Press, 2020 (Downloadable chapters via Jstor)   

Baricco, Alessandro, The game : a digital turning point, McSweeney's Publishing, 2020

Douglis, Evan, Autogenic Structures, Taylor & Francis, NA2540.D68 2009

Harari, Yuval N., Homo deus : a brief history of tomorrow, Vintage, CB428 .H36813 2017

Kerestes, James F., et al (Editors), A purple architecture: design in the age of the physical-virtual continuum, Carnegie Mellon University ETC Press, NA2500 .P87 2024

Lally, Sean, The air from other planets : a brief history of architecture to come, Lars Muller, NA2540 .L255x 2014

Scharff, Robert C. & Val Dusek (editors), Philosophy of technology : the technological condition : an anthology, Wiley Blackwell, T14 .P498 2014

Sterling, Bruce, Shaping things, MIT Press, T174 .S77 2005

Gravitics (designs and manufactures live / work space station modules) 

Kallipoliti, Lydia, The architecture of closed worlds, or, What is the power of shit? Lars Müller Publishers, NA2542.35 .K35 2018

McGuirk, Justin, et al (editors), Moving to Mars : design for the red planet, The Design Museum, QB641 .M885 2019

Meuser, Paul, Moon : architectural guide, Dom publishers, NA680 .M48 2019

Meuser, Philipp, Galina Balashova : architect of the Soviet space programme, DOM Publishers, TL875 .M4813 2022

Reimann, Fabian, Space colonies : a galactic freeman's journal, Spector Books, N8246.S63 R45 2017

Scharmen, Fred, Space settlements, Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, TL795.7 .S33 2019

Weinersmith, Kelly & Zach, A city on Mars : can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through? Penguin Press, TL790 .W45 2023

Zukowsky, John (editor), 2001 : building for space travel, Harry N. Abrams, TL4015 .A15 2001

Bair, Kelly, et al, Possible mediums, Actar, NA2750 .P67 2018

Banham, Reyner, Theory and design in the first machine age, MIT Press, NA680 .B25 1980

Barendregt, Laura & Nora S. Vaage, "Speculative design as thought experiment," She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation, Vol.7, #3, 2021, p.374-402 (via sciencedirect.com)

Barton, Gem (editor), Experimental realism : (design) fictions and futures, RIBA Publishing, NA209.5 .E97 2022

Bishop, Ryan, "The Eames Office, the Cold War and the Avant-Garde: making the lab of tomorrow," Culture & Society, Vol.37, #7–8, p.71–94 (PDF via journals.sagepub.com)

Dunne, Anthony & Fiona Raby, Speculative everything : design, fiction, and social dreaming, MIT Press, 2013 (Ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Durfee, Tim & Mimi Zeiger (editors), Made up, ArtCenter Graduate Press and Actar D, NK1505 .M33 2017

Galilee, Beatrice, Radical architecture of the future, Phaidon, NA687 .G35 2021

Garcia, Cruz & Nathalie Frankowski, Narrative architecture : a kynical manifesto, nai010 publishers, NA682.M63 G37 2019

Harbison, Robert, The built, the unbuilt, and the unbuildable : in pursuit of architectural meaning, MIT Press, NA2500 .H37 1991

Imhof, Barbara, et al (editors), Co-corporeality of humans, machines, & microbes, Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien, NA2543.S35 C63 2022

Journal of Future Studies (Graduate Institute of Futures Studies, Tamkang University, Taiwan)

Kerestes, James F., et al (Editors), A purple architecture: design in the age of the physical-virtual continuum, Carnegie Mellon University ETC Press, NA2500 .P87 2024

Mitrović, Ivica, et al (editors), Beyond speculative design : past - present - future, SpeculativeEdu; Arts Academy, University of Split, Library Office - NK1520 .B496 2021 (PDF also available via speculativeedu.eu) 

Reeves, Stuart, et al, “The future as a design problem,” Design Issues, Vol.32, #3, 2016, p.6–17 (PDF via Jstor)

Tharp, Bruce M. & Stephanie Tharp, Discursive design : critical, speculative, and alternative things, MIT Press, NK1520 .T49 2018

Klanten, Robert & Sofia Borges (editors), The tale of tomorrow : utopian architecture in the modernist realm, Gestalten, NA209.5 .T35x 2016

Ferrara, Mark S., American community : radical experiments in intentional living, Rutgers University Press, 2020 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Lewis, Michael J., City of refuge : separatists and utopian town planning, Princeton University Press, HX630 .L49 2016

Noble, Richard (editor), Utopias, Whitechapel Gallery; MIT Press, N6490 .U83 2009

Barton, Gem (editor), Experimental realism : (design) fictions and futures, RIBA Publishing, NA209.5 .E97 2022

Durfee, Tim & Mimi Zeiger (editors), Made up, ArtCenter Graduate Press and Actar D, NK1505 .M33 2017

Lupton, Ellen, Design is storytelling, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, NK1520 .L867 2017

Reed, Patricia, "The end of a world and its pedagogies," Making & Breaking, Issue 2, 2021 (PDF via makingandbreaking.org)

Schrijver, Lara, “Building worlds: architecture as speculation on society,” Archined, March 7, 2022

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