This book is the first ever collection about twenty-first century genre fiction. It offers
accessible yet rigorous critical interventions in a growing field of popular culture and
academic study presenting new genres as a fascinating and powerful means of reading
contemporary culture.The collection explores the history and uses of genre to date analyses
key examples of innovations and developments in the field and reflects on how these texts have
been mobilised in teaching since the year 2000. It explores a range of new twenty-first century
genres through a close reading of key examples along with a broader critical overview at the
beginning of each chapter capturing wider developments contexts and themes. As a result of
this contextual text-orientated approach the book promotes a broad appeal beyond the
specifics of new genres and authors and will contribute to a wider understanding of
developments in post-millennial fictions.