Noting that science fiction is characterized by an investment in theproliferation of racial difference, Isiah Lavender III argues that racial alterityis fundamental to the genre's narrative strategy. Race in American Science Fictionoffers a systematic classification of ways that race appears and how it is silencedin science fiction, while developing a critical vocabulary designed to focusattention on often-overlooked racial implications. These focused readings of sciencefiction contextualize race within the genre's better-known master narratives andagendas. Authors discussed include Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, andUrsula K. Le Guin, among many others.