Sonic fiction is everywhere: in conversations about vernacular culture, in music videos, sound art compositions and on record sleeves, in everyday encounters with sonic experiences and in every single piece of writing about sound. Where one can find sounds one will also detect bits of fiction. In 1998 music critic, DJ and video essayist Kodwo Eshun proposed this concept in his book “More Brilliant Than The Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction”. Originally, he did so in order to explicate the manifold connections between Afrofuturism and Techno, connecting them to Jazz, Breakbeat and Electronica. His argument, his narrations and his explorative language operations however inspired researchers, artists, and scholars since then. Sonic Fiction became a myth and a mantra, a keyword and a magical spell. This book provides a basic introduction to sonic fiction. In six chapters it explicates the inspirations for and the transformations of this concept; it explores applications and extrapolations in sound art and sonic theory, in musicology, epistemology, in critical and political theory. Sonic fiction is presented in this book as a heuristic for critique and activism. “A rich and timely meditation on a concept central to sonic theory.” ― The Wire “ Sonic Fiction touches on relevant issues concerning contemporary popular culture in a globalized world, while presenting innovative research and fresh theoretical ideas.” ― Carla J. Maier, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and author of Transcultural Sound Practices: British Asian Dance Music as Cultural Transformation (2020) “The main benefit of Sonic Fiction is to open up the particular approach of Kodwo Eshun's 'Sonic Fiction' to a broader public and outline the several fields of discourse that have built upon his concept. Informed by sound anthropology and the newly emerging transdisciplinary field of sound studies, this volume identifies and explains the specific contribution of the 'Sonic Fiction' approach to an epistemology of sound.” ― Rolf Großmann, Professor in Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media, University of Lüneburg, Germany “A thoughtful introduction to some of the most vital tendencies in 21st-century auditory arts and cultural theory. Sonic fictions are generative systems: synthesizers of ideas, recomposers of politics, collective transducers. Schulze's book offers a timely and a forward-looking appraisal of Kodwo Eshun's work and its proliferating influence.” ― Paul Jasen, Lecturer in Music, Carleton University, Canada Holger Schulze is Professor in Musicology at the University of Copenhagen. His many authored works include Sonic Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2020) and The Sonic Persona (Bloomsbury, 2018). He is editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound (Bloomsbury, 2021) and co-editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art (Bloomsbury, 2020). He is co-editor of the journal, Paragrana. Michael Bull is Professor of Sound Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. His many authored books include Sirens (Bloomsbury 2020) and Sound Moves, iPod Culture and Urban Experience (Routledge, 2007). He is editor of the Routledge Companion to Sound Studies (2018) and The Auditory Culture Reader (Bloomsbury 2003, and 2016), and co-editor of the Bloomsbury Handbook of Sonic Methodologies (Bloomsbury, 2020). He is a founding editor of the journals, The Senses and Society and Sound Studies .