Meg Nola:
[Bérubé's] analyses are intensive yet fluid, variegated with a range of cultural, political, and personal references. Spirited and speculative, The Ex-Human showcases science fiction for its formidable and prescient nature.

Roger Luckhurst, author of Gothic: An Illustrated History:
In The Ex-Human, Michael Bérubé compellingly engages on both the personal and academic level with the question of our dystopian contemporary, and what the reading of science fiction can bring to this debate.

Leonard Cassuto, author of Academic Writing as if Readers Matter:
Are human beings worth saving? Viewing that question through the lens of science fiction, The Ex-Human is one of those rare and wonderful books that will engage aficionados and general readers together. Bérubé writes with conviction, clarity, and warmth—this is literary and cinematic analysis of the highest order, presented in a personal voice that always keeps you in the story.

Gerry Canavan, author of Octavia E. Butler:
A vivacious and unrelenting confrontation with the consolations and desolations of contemporary science fiction from one of literary culture’s most insightful and wide-ranging polymaths, Michael Bérubé’s The Ex-Human is by turns brilliant, hilarious, despairing, and refusing despair. An absolute must-read.

A thought-provoking examination of sci-fi novels and films that invite audiences to contemplate humanity’s 'sorry fate from the vantage point of something other than human.' . . . Bérubé brings welcome humor to the proceedings . . . Sci-fi fanatics will appreciate Bérubé’s offbeat takes.