David M. Higgins is a Senior Editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books, and he teaches in the English Department at Inver Hills College in Minnesota. He is the author of Reverse Colonization: Science Fiction, Imperial Fantasy, and Alt-Victimhood (2021), and his article, “Toward a Cosmopolitan Science Fiction,” won the 2012 SFRA Innovative Research Award. David’s scholarship has been published in journals such as American Literature, Science Fiction Studies, Paradoxa, and Extrapolation, and his work has appeared in edited volumes such as The Cambridge History of Science Fiction and The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction. David has been a featured speaker on NPR’s radio show On Point, and he serves as the Second Vice President for the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA).
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

A History of Cyberpunk Comics
David M. Higgins and Matthew Iung consider the complicated history of cyberpunk comics....

The Name of This Feeling Is Revolution: On David Mitchell’s “Utopia Avenue”
David M. Higgins travels down “Utopia Avenue,” the latest novel from David Mitchell....

Escaping from Shadow: Monte Cook’s “Invisible Sun”
Surrealism versus escapism in a new roleplaying game....

A Glorious Mythology of Loss: Alan Moore’s “Jerusalem”
David M. Higgins reviews Alan Moore’s new novel, “Jerusalem.”...

“Doctor Strange” and the Trump Presidency
"Doctor Strange" grasps the deepest ideological fantasies of our era: On both the left and the right, we yearn to revise the catastrophes we couldn't stop....

Salvaging the Future
A review of a special journal issue on “The Futures Industry.”...
