Introduction • Brett Josef Grubisic, Gisèle M. Baxter, and Tara Lee
The Man in the Klein Blue Suit: Searching for Agency in William Gibson’s Bigend Trilogy • Janine Tobeck
The Cultural Logic of Post-Capitalism: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and Popular Dystopia • Carl F. Miller
Logical Gaps and Capitalism’s Seduction in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl • Sharlee Reimer
“The Dystopia of the Obsolete”: Lisa Robertson’s Vancouver and the Poetics of Nostalgia • Paul Stephens
Post-Frontier and Re-Definition of Space in Tropic of Orange Hande Tekdemir
Our Posthuman Adolescence: Dystopia, Information Technologies, and the Construction of Subjectivity in M.T. Anderson’s Feed Richard Gooding
PART II Plastic Subjectivities
Woman Gave Names to All the Animals: Food, Fauna, and Anorexia in Margaret Atwood’s Dystopian Fiction • Annette Lapointe
The End of Life as We Knew It: Material Nature and the American Family in Susan Beth Pfeffer’s Last Survivors Series • Alexa Weik von Mossner
“The Treatment for Stirrings”: Dystopian Literature for Adolescents Joseph Campbell
Imagining Black Bodies in the Future • Gregory Hampton
Brown Girl in the Ring as Urban Policy • Sharon DeGraw
Archive Failure? Cielos de la tierra’s Historical Dystopia • Zac Zimmer
Love, War, and Mal de Amores: Utopia and Dystopia in the Mexican Revolution María Odette Canivell
Culture of Control/Control of Culture: Anne Legault’s Récits de Médilhault Lee Skallerup Bessette
The Sublime Simulacrum: Vancouver in Douglas Coupland’s Geography of Apocalypse • Robert McGill
Neoliberalism and Dystopia in U.S.–Mexico Borderlands Fiction Lysa Rivera
America and Books Are “Never Going to Die”: Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story as a New York Jewish “Ustopia” • Marleen S. Barr
In Pursuit of an Outside: Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers and the Crisis of the Unrepresentable • Thomas Stubblefield
Homero Aridjis and Mexico’s Eco-Critical Dystopia • Adam Spires
Lost in Grand Central: Dystopia and Transgression in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods • Robert T. Tally, Jr.
Which Way Is Hope? Dystopia into the (Mexican) Borgian Labyrinth Luis Gómez Romero
Dystopia Now: Examining the Rach(a)els in Automaton Biographies and Player One • Kit Dobson
The Romance of the Blazing World: Looking back from CanLit to SF Owen Percy
“It’s not power, it’s sex”: Jeanette Winterson’s The PowerBook and Nicole Brossard’s Baroque at Dawn • Helene Staveley
Another Novel Is Possible: Muckraking in Chris Bachelder’s U.S.! and Robert Newman’s The Fountain at the Center of the World Lee Konstantinou