We give an example of how speculative fiction may be used as a form of research method to analyse and interpret such data. We seek to contribute to a relative dearth of future studies that use real student data. We engage in a sense-making activity of the student testimony by narrating their story, via a scholar looking back at our times from a post-literature future. We analyse these interviews via speculative fiction. It gives an empirical account of socio-material practices of textbook use (and non-use) gathered from a series of interviews with online distance education students. This article uses speculative fiction as a form of narrative enquiry to explore the socio-materiality of the iconic educational artefact of the textbook. What are books? In 2054, where reading and writing have been banned, a scholar in a dystopian academy known as University V might legitimately pose such a question.
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