“In a time when ‘techbro’ Gen-AI apocalyptic-utopian dreaming is hurtling humanity towards exclusive off-world solutions, Exploring Reproduction and Gender in Contemporary Feminist Speculative Fiction offers a needed reset. Evoking Adrienne’s Rich’s ‘mothering’, this essential book surveys women’s reproductive history as portrayed through the lens of feminist speculative fiction since the 1960s. The chapters reveal a myriad of social-cultural anxieties around gender, technology, and nation and empire in primarily Anglo-American and Hispanic texts. In the process, the collection points to the necessity and power of dreaming fertile alternative futures to solve today's complex problems.” (Sonja Fritzsche, Director of Teaching and Learning and Professor of German Studies, College of Arts & Letters, Michigan State University, USA)

“This dazzling collection on reproduction and gender in contemporary feminist speculative fiction is indeed, as its subtitle signifies, ‘Out of this World.’ As the editors astutely and rightly observe in the collection’s introduction, despite the centrality of reproduction to feminist discourse, its portrayal within science fiction has often been conspicuous by its absence. With its incisive and decisive explorations of mothers and mothering across diverse histories, themes, genres, and perspectives, the collection compellingly reveals how speculative fiction, as mirror and lens, enables, nay, empowers readers to envision an alternative future wherein the full spectrum of maternity is celebrated and respected.” (Andrea O’Reilly, Founder of Motherhood Studies and Author of “In (M)other Words: Writings on Mothering and Motherhood 2009-2024 and Matricentric Feminism: Theory, Activism, Practice”)