About the Author :
Michael Pinsky’s earliest memories of science fiction consist of watching badly dubbed Japanese monster movies on Saturday mornings and memorizing reruns of Star Trek. Every few months, he parents dutifully carted him to Walt Disney World. After a healthy diet of science fiction and horror media, he grew up (more or less) to earn a B.A. in English at New College of USF, where he discovered contemporary philosophy. Then he earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of South Florida, where he currently teaches writing, twentieth-century literatures, and popular culture, with particular focus on the problems of ethics in contemporary society.

Future Present: Ethics and/as Science Fiction fuses contemporary philosophy with cultural texts preoccupied with the future arrival of an other: science fiction. Although Future Present contains a thorough grounding in contemporary philosophy, drawing from the work of such thinkers as Derrida, Haraway, Baudrillard and others, the theory of ethics discussed in the book is easily accessible to non-academics with an interest in science fiction and popular culture.

The FDU Press has particular strengths in literary studies, world history and politics, biography, film, ethnic studies, sociology, the Civil War, art, religion, local history, and urban studies.