Abstract
This article analyses the place and significance of labour in Samuel Delany’s 1968 novel Nova. It traces the ways in which the novel, albeit conventional in its adherence to the space opera science fiction sub-genre, manages to deviate from mainstream science fiction at the time by recalibrating the genre in order to explore and interrogate the afterlife of European colonialism and the violent legacies of racialized labour that made it possible. More specifically, it traces the ways in which Delany’s speculations into the future of labour extrapolate from not only incipient cybernetic technologies but also real-life histories of violent slave labour under colonialism and Empire.
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