Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Politics: Transmedia World-Building Beyond Capitalism c 1700 to c 1800 • Keeps things simple with

• Keeps things simple with three basic rules

Serial monogamist Fran has waited years for her chance to be single

In her fifth cookbook

for now she must marry into the royal family and forge a pact with a god—or die

Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Politics: Transmedia World-Building Beyond Capitalism c 1700 to c 1800 • Keeps things simple withFrom Tolkien to Star Trek, from Game of Thrones to Battlestar Galactica, and from The Walking Dead to Janelle Monae's Afrofuturist concept albums, transmedia world building offers us complex and immersive environments beyond capitalism. This book examines the ways in which these popular storyworlds offer tools for anticapitalist theory and practice. Building on Hardt and Negri's theory of global capitalism, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Politics shows