After Human

Shortlisted for the British Fantasy Awards (Non-Fiction) 2022 Shortlisted for the Locus Science Fiction Foundation Non-Fiction Award 2022 SF haslong been understood as a literature of radical potential, capable of imaginingentirely new worlds and ways of being. Yet SF has been slow to embraceposthumanist ideas about the human subject. The human of the SF tradition isinstead a liminal being, caught somewhere between the transcendent ‘Man’ ofclassical humanism and the subversive ‘cyborg’ of posthu