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Gerry Canavan

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Darko Suvin, scholar, critic and poet, was born in Yugoslavia, studied at the universities of Zagreb, Bristol, the Sorbonne and Yale and has taught in Europe and North America. He is Professor Emeritus of McGill University and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of numerous books and articles on literature and dramaturgy, culture, utopian and science fiction and political epistemology, as well as three volumes of poetry. In recent years he has been writing mainly about SFR Yugoslavia and communism.
Gerry Canavan is Assistant Professor of English at Marquette University, specializing in twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature. His research focuses on the relationship between science fiction and the political and cultural history of the post-war period, with special emphasis on ecology and the environment. He is an editor at Extrapolation and Science Fiction Film and Television, as well as the author of Modern Masters of Science Fiction: Octavia E. Butler (2016).

Gerry Canavan Books

The Boom & The Boom book cover

The Boom & The Boom

Sonja Fritzsche
Uneven Futures book cover

Uneven Futures

Ida Yoshinaga
Metamorphoses of Science Fiction book cover

Metamorphoses of Science Fiction

Gerry Canavan
Green Planets book cover

Green Planets

Gerry Canavan
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