...Simon Nicholson; Anne R. Kapuscinski; Kim A. Locke; D. G. Webster A common theme in speculative fiction concerns technological overreach. All manner of scenarios have been developed by science fiction authors and filmmakers, warning of the potential for subjugation, obliteration, or alienation...

... for racially marginalized people, or the possible existence of rights of Earth. Nor do they query whether they are exaggerating the reach of scientific and technological solutions. By contrast, some recent ecological science fiction writing has begun to place these issues at the center of transitions...

... and economic system that collapses under its own weight. Sheep has been out of print occasionally, but was re-released in a new edition with a foreword by author David Brin and afterword by James John Bell (2003), and, more recently, with an introduction by science fiction heavyweight, Kim Stanley...