2025

Williams, Rhys ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0129-7710 (2025) Habit: What kinds of friction can disrupt the status quo? In: Szeman, Imre and Wenzel, Jennifer (eds.) Energized: Keywords for a New Politics of Energy. Series: Energy and society. West Virginia University Press. ISBN 9781959000518

2024

Williams, Rhys ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0129-7710 (2024) Energy humanities. In: Bould, Mark, Butler, Andrew M. and Vint, Sherryl (eds.) New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction. Series: Routledge literature companions. Routledge, pp. 372-380. ISBN 9780367690533 (doi: 10.4324/9781003140269-46)

2023

Williams, Rhys ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0129-7710 (2023) Contemporary utopianism: an island renaissance. In: Shrank, Cathy and Withington, Phil (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of More’s Utopia. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198881018

Williams, Rhys ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0129-7710 (2023) Solar as narrative element: the interrupting surface. In: Howe, Cymene, Diamanti, Jeff and Moore, Amelia (eds.) Solarities: Elemental Encounters and Refractions. Punctum Books, pp. 159-168. ISBN 9781685711146 (doi: 10.53288/0404.1.00)

2022

After Oil Collective, Vemuri, Ayesha and Barney, Darin (Eds.) (2022) Solarities: Seeking Energy Justice. University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis ; London. ISBN 9781517914141

2021

Williams, Rhys ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0129-7710 (2021) Turning toward the Sun: the solarity and singularity of New Food. South Atlantic Quarterly, 120(1), pp. 151-162. (doi: 10.1215/00382876-8795791)

2019

Williams, Rhys ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0129-7710 (2019) 'This Shining Confluence of Magic and Technology': solarpunk, energy imaginaries, and the infrastructures of solarity. Open Library of Humanities, 5(1), 60. (doi: 10.16995/olh.329)

Williams, Rhys ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0129-7710 (2019) Inventing new worlds: The age of manifestos and utopias. In: Canavan, Gerry and Link, Eric Carl (eds.) The Cambridge History of Science Fiction. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 69-85. ISBN 9781107166097 (doi: 10.1017/9781316694374)

2017

Williams, Rhys ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0129-7710 (2017) Utopia for the fragmented. In: Chignac, Louise (ed.) The Art Night Book. ICA: London.

2016

Williams, Rhys ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0129-7710 (2016) Utopian curatorial praxis: on Slow Action by Ben Rivers. Science Fiction Film and Television, 9(1), pp. 118-121. (doi: 10.3828/sfftv.2016.4)

Williams, Rhys ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0129-7710 (2016) There’s power in the dirt: impurity, utopianism and radical politics. In: Duschinsky, Robbie, Schnall, Simone and Weiss, Daniel H. (eds.) Purity and Danger Now: New Perspectives. Routledge: Abingdon, pp. 69-84. ISBN 9781138693708

Williams, Rhys ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0129-7710 (2016) Utopia’s the thing: an analysis of utopian programme and impulse in H.G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau. In: Godfrey, Emelyne (ed.) Utopias and Dystopias in the Fiction of H. G. Wells and William Morris. Palgrave Macmillan: London, pp. 107-121. ISBN 9781137523396 (doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-52340-2_7)

Williams, Rhys ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0129-7710 (2016) Weird counsels: the critic and the critics. Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, 124, pp. 92-98. [Book Review]

2014

Williams, Rhys ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0129-7710 (2014) Recognizing cognition: on Suvin, Miéville, and the utopian impulse in the contemporary fantastic. Science Fiction Studies, 41(3), pp. 617-633. (doi: 10.5621/sciefictstud.41.3.0617)

Bould, Mark and Williams, Rhys ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0129-7710 (2014) Sf Now [Guest editors]. Paradoxa, 26,

Williams, Rhys ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0129-7710 (2014) Cognitive impurities: a combined political approach to the fantastic (with The Island of Doctor Moreau). Paradoxa, 26, pp. 253-266.

Articles

Williams, Rhys ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0129-7710 (2021) Turning toward the Sun: the solarity and singularity of New Food. South Atlantic Quarterly, 120(1), pp. 151-162. (doi: 10.1215/00382876-8795791)

Williams, Rhys ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0129-7710 (2019) 'This Shining Confluence of Magic and Technology': solarpunk, energy imaginaries, and the infrastructures of solarity. Open Library of Humanities, 5(1), 60. (doi: 10.16995/olh.329)

Williams, Rhys ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0129-7710 (2016) Utopian curatorial praxis: on Slow Action by Ben Rivers. Science Fiction Film and Television, 9(1), pp. 118-121. (doi: 10.3828/sfftv.2016.4)

Williams, Rhys ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0129-7710 (2014) Recognizing cognition: on Suvin, Miéville, and the utopian impulse in the contemporary fantastic. Science Fiction Studies, 41(3), pp. 617-633. (doi: 10.5621/sciefictstud.41.3.0617)

Bould, Mark and Williams, Rhys ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0129-7710 (2014) Sf Now [Guest editors]. Paradoxa, 26,

Williams, Rhys ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0129-7710 (2014) Cognitive impurities: a combined political approach to the fantastic (with The Island of Doctor Moreau). Paradoxa, 26, pp. 253-266.

Book Sections

Williams, Rhys ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0129-7710 (2025) Habit: What kinds of friction can disrupt the status quo? In: Szeman, Imre and Wenzel, Jennifer (eds.) Energized: Keywords for a New Politics of Energy. Series: Energy and society. West Virginia University Press. ISBN 9781959000518

Williams, Rhys ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0129-7710 (2024) Energy humanities. In: Bould, Mark, Butler, Andrew M. and Vint, Sherryl (eds.) New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction. Series: Routledge literature companions. Routledge, pp. 372-380. ISBN 9780367690533 (doi: 10.4324/9781003140269-46)

Williams, Rhys ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0129-7710 (2023) Contemporary utopianism: an island renaissance. In: Shrank, Cathy and Withington, Phil (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of More’s Utopia. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198881018

Williams, Rhys ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0129-7710 (2023) Solar as narrative element: the interrupting surface. In: Howe, Cymene, Diamanti, Jeff and Moore, Amelia (eds.) Solarities: Elemental Encounters and Refractions. Punctum Books, pp. 159-168. ISBN 9781685711146 (doi: 10.53288/0404.1.00)

Williams, Rhys ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0129-7710 (2019) Inventing new worlds: The age of manifestos and utopias. In: Canavan, Gerry and Link, Eric Carl (eds.) The Cambridge History of Science Fiction. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 69-85. ISBN 9781107166097 (doi: 10.1017/9781316694374)

Williams, Rhys ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0129-7710 (2017) Utopia for the fragmented. In: Chignac, Louise (ed.) The Art Night Book. ICA: London.

Williams, Rhys ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0129-7710 (2016) There’s power in the dirt: impurity, utopianism and radical politics. In: Duschinsky, Robbie, Schnall, Simone and Weiss, Daniel H. (eds.) Purity and Danger Now: New Perspectives. Routledge: Abingdon, pp. 69-84. ISBN 9781138693708

Williams, Rhys ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0129-7710 (2016) Utopia’s the thing: an analysis of utopian programme and impulse in H.G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau. In: Godfrey, Emelyne (ed.) Utopias and Dystopias in the Fiction of H. G. Wells and William Morris. Palgrave Macmillan: London, pp. 107-121. ISBN 9781137523396 (doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-52340-2_7)

Book Reviews

Williams, Rhys ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0129-7710 (2016) Weird counsels: the critic and the critics. Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, 124, pp. 92-98. [Book Review]

Edited Books

After Oil Collective, Vemuri, Ayesha and Barney, Darin (Eds.) (2022) Solarities: Seeking Energy Justice. University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis ; London. ISBN 9781517914141