After reviewing the claims made in each of the preceding chapters, I turn to “culture’s futures.” Science fiction offers a particularly valuable lens through which to examine “culture,” both in the ways the genre foregrounds dynamics of knowledge and power, and in the ways it takes as one of its central tasks imagining alternatives. Even as postmodern and postcolonial science fiction has challenged and posed alternatives to the idea of “culture” as bounded, structured wholes, the increased academic institutionalization and mainstream popularity of science fiction/speculative fiction—including neoliberal models of “multiculturalism” as marketing categories—raise interesting questions in relation to Johannes Fabian’s theories of (official) “culture” vs. unruly “counter-culture.” At the same time, anthropologists themselves have turned increasingly to theorizing “the future.” But with the continued ubiquity of “culture” in academic and popular discourse—including, for example, a resurgence of the language of “culture wars”—culture remains a problem, demanding continued critical attention from anthropology, science fiction, and literary scholars alike, in order to think through new ways to construct and narrate new versions of culture, for new futures.