Rob Latham is Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, USA. Winner of the Science Fiction Research Association's Thomas D. Clareson award for distinguished service to the field, he is Editor of the journal "Science Fiction Studies" and of "The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction" (2014), co-editor of "The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction" (2010) and author of "Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs and the Culture of Consumption" (2002).