Paperback, 224 Pages: Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985 explores how science fiction responded to and was shaped by the era’s radical political and cultural movements. From the 1950s through the early 1980s, sci-fi writers in the U.S. and U.K. used the genre to critique inequality, war, state surveillance, patriarchy, and corporate power—breaking away from the linear, technocratic narratives of the so-called Golden Age. With the rise of the New Wave in the ’60s and the emergence of cyberpunk in the early ’80s, authors like Octavia Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin, J.G. Ballard, and Joanna Russ infused sci-fi with ecological, feminist, and antiracist themes. This richly illustrated volume features over 20 chapters by contemporary writers and critics, highlighting well-known and overlooked authors alike, and offering deep insight into how radical politics and speculative fiction became powerfully intertwined during a transformative era.