Vegetarianism and Science Fiction

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¿This is an important book on an important topic¿. Bulleid's Vegetarianism and Science Fiction more than fills the gap and will be a must for all serious scholars of the genre.¿ ¿Andrew Milner, co-author of Science Fiction and Climate Change ¿[This book] offers a provocative and timely lens through which to read works from across the genre of science fiction. Via various theoretical lenses¿. Bulleid investigates science fiction¿s historical attention to animal and human relationships and its interrogation of what¿and whöwe eat.¿ ¿Laura Wright, author of The Vegan Studies Project ¿Spanning more than two centuries of science fictional speculation, Bulleid¿s instant-classic shows how the genre continually produces vegetarian provocations as its way of thinking about freedom, revolution, masculinity, utopia, kindness, cruelty, happiness, misery, life, death, and what it really means to be a human being in a world where everyone needs to eat.¿ ¿Gerry Canavan, co-editor of The Cambridge History of Science Fiction Vegetarianism and Science Fiction: A History of Utopian Animal Ethics examines how vegetarian ideals promoted within science fiction and utopian literature have had a real-world impact on the awareness and spread of vegetarianism and animal advocacy. Author Joshua Bulleid explores how the genres¿ engagements have been altered to reflect changes in ethical and environmental philosophy from the early-nineteenth century to the present day, through an examination of the works of major science fiction authors, including Mary Shelley, H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ernest Callenbach, Marge Piercy, Octavia E. Butler, Kim Stanley Robinson and Margaret Atwood within their evolving social contexts. Joshua Bulleid is an independent early career researcher from Melbourne, Australia. His articles on vegetarianism and animal ethics have appeared in Science Fiction Studies and Foundation, as well as the Palgrave Macmillan collection Ethical Futures and Global Science Fiction (2020) and The Edinburgh Companion to Vegan Literary Studies (2022). He also hosts the Terry Pratchett podcast Unseen Academicals.