Introduction Vered Weiss and Elana Gomel Part 1. General - Theory Limbotopia: The "New Present" and the Literary Imagination Elana Gomel and Vered Karti Shemtov What is "Israeli" about Israeli Speculative Fiction? Emanuel Lottem and Sheldon Teitelbaum Science Fiction and Fantasy in Israeli Literature Lynn Levanon Haunting Homelands: Displacement and Resistance in Palestinian Speculative Fiction and Osama Al-Muslim's Orchids of Arabistan Nardeen Dow Mauvaises-lettres: The New Historical Imagination in Israeli Speculative Fiction Oded Nir Hebrew Speculative Fiction in English Translation Rachel Cordasco Part 2. Specific Examples Bialik and the Gothic: The Hebrew National Poet of Decline and Resurrection Vered Weiss Dust Soaked: Water and Mutual Obligation in Assaf Gavron's SF Keren Omry "What is Yet to Come Already Slashes the Air": Temporal Space in Shimon Adaf's Rose of Judea Trilogy Rina Jean Baroukh "Reaching into the clear blue of the Mediterranean Sea": Lavie Tidhar's Israeli Speculative Fictions Hadas Elber-Aviram The Redemption Compulsion: Utopian Messianism and Trauma in the Dystopian Novel The Third Yossi Mendelovich A Mischievous Child, a War Hero, and a Friendly Spy: The Ideological Transfiguration of the Sabra in Hebrew Comics from 1935 to 1974 Ben Baruch Blich.