Acknowledgments

Thanks to everyone who helped me along the way, including andré m. carrington, Ben Allen, Anindita Banerjee, Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, Camestros Felapton, Harrison Fluss, Elizabeth Freeman, David Higgins, Caroline Hovanec, Mark Jerng, Sarah Juliet Lauro, Colin Milburn, Steven Mollmann, Benjamin Noys, Benjamin O’Dell, Joshua Pearson, Jon Phillips, Brett Rogers, Elda María Román, Elizabeth Sandifer, Stephen Schryer, Alexandra Minna Stern, Sherryl Vint, and my family. I have appreciated the editorial assistance of Leah Pennywark, Mike Stoffel, and everyone else at the University of Minnesota Press’s Forerunners series. I began thinking about this book while working at the ModLab at the University of California, Davis, and the Los Angeles Review of Books gave me my first opportunity to write about fascism and science fiction. The introduction and chapter 2 include revised material first presented in a different form in the Los Angeles Review of Books in “Race Consciousness: Fascism and Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’” on November 19, 2020. Finally, I would like to thank all the university and public libraries that have provided invaluable assistance in this project, including the Peter J. Shields Library at the University of California, Davis, the Macdonald–Kelce Library at the University of Tampa, the Collins Memorial Library at the University of Puget Sound, and the Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections at Michigan State University Libraries.