Dr. Dale Knickerbocker: Lingua Cosmica: Science Fiction from around the World

Dr. Dale Knickerbocker’s recent publication, Lingua Cosmica, opens the door to some of the creators in the vanguard of international science fiction. Eleven experts offer innovative English-language scholarship on figures ranging from Cuban pioneer Daína Chaviano to Nigerian filmmaker Olatunde Osunsanmi to the Hugo Award–winning Chinese writer Liu Cixin. These essays invite readers to ponder the themes, formal elements, and unique cultural characteristics within the works of these irreplaceable—if too-little-known—artists. Dale Knickerbocker includes fantasists and genre-benders pushing SF along new evolutionary paths even as they draw on the traditions of their own literary cultures.

2018. Dale Knickerbocker, ed. Lingua Cosmica: Science Fiction from Around the World. (University of Illinois Press)