“Reverse Colonization offers a fascinating look into the process by which such stories are generated and transformed into cultural references and societal roadmaps. . . . a pleasure to read: wide-ranging, informative, and full of twists and ironies.”—Los Angeles Review of Books
“Higgins’s thoroughly researched, well-grounded analysis of the science fictional roots of ‘imperial masochism’ is both timely and persuasive. It should become an important reference for work on Anglophone science fiction after WWII, and on the growth of neoliberal ideology and right-wing conspiracy theory in the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.”—John Rieder, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
“In reading Reverse Colonization, we discover the staggering extent to which the contemporary American political imagination—on all sides—has been furnished by science fiction. Higgins opens an exciting new direction for scholarship in exploring how and why science fiction’s images and fantasies have been so adaptable and so powerful.”—Scott Selisker, author, Human Programming: Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom