Sean Redmond | There is an often a repeated scene in the Hollywood science fiction film in which a main character looks up, towards the stars, and quietly dreams of travelling in outer space. This scene either foreshadows, or prophesises, the time when they will go inter-galactic journeying, as if it is their manifest destiny…
Isiah Lavender III | “Why study race in science fiction?” Answering that personal question, the heart of my professional being, requires Doctor Who’s TARDIS, preferably accompanied by the fourth (Tom Baker) or tenth (David Tennant) incarnation of the Doctor. — I fondly remember watching television shows in my childhood like Doctor Who, Buck Rogers, and V.…
Elyce Helford | Though the present and future of post-millennial American science fiction television varies greatly from program to program, all are arguably driven by a melting-pot white ethic that reveals gains for white women and far less for people of color, especially African American women. While programming remains overwhelmingly produced by white men, white…