Doug Van Belle is a Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Film, Theatre, Media and Communication, and Art History at Victoria University. He is currently examining how science fiction as thought experiment shapes its in the conceptual space between science and society. The diversity of his expertise is driven by his creative works, including several science fiction novels, as well has his introduction to politics textbook, A Novel Approach to Politics, which will soon go into its 7th edition. His latest novel, A World Adrift, is set in the skies of Venus, 800 years after it was first colonized, and explores the human impact of the politics of extreme resource scarcity.
