Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 1 • Discovering the Future in my Grandmother's Back Closet • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 3 • What's a Nice Baby Boomer Literary Scholar Like Me Doing Reading Fiction Like This? • essay by Marleen S. Barr
• 5 • The Medium That Time Forgot • essay by Matthew Candelaria
• 15 • Defining Science Fiction • essay by Eric S. Rabkin
• 23 • What Is Science Fiction - and How It Grew • essay by H. Bruce Franklin
• 33 • Narrative Strategies in Science Fiction • essay by Brian Stableford
• 43 • There Is No Such Thing as Science Fiction • essay by Mark Bould and Sherryl Vint
• 57 • Science Fiction Movies: the Feud of Eye and Idea • essay by George Zebrowski
• 72 • The Feedback Loop • essay by Michael Cassutt
• 85 • Computers in Science Fiction • essay by Brooks Landon
• 96 • Cross-fertilization or Coincidence? Science Fiction and Videogames • essay by Orson Scott Card
• 111 • Gender Is a Problem That Can Be Solved: Women's Science Fiction and Feminist Theory • essay by Jane Donawerth
• 120 • Marxism and Science Fiction • essay by Carl Freedman
• 133 • Reading Science Fiction with Postcolonial Theory • essay by Matthew Candelaria
• 142 • Encountering International Science Fiction Through a Latin American Lens • essay by Roberto de Sousa Causo
• 159 • Reading Science Fiction as Science Fiction • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 168 • Reading Joanna Russ in Context: Science, Utopia and Postmodernity • essay by Jeanne Cortiel
• 181 • Reading Science Fiction's Interdisciplinary Conversation with Science and Technology Studies • essay by R. Doug Davis and Lisa Yaszek
• 199 • Neuroscience Fiction Redux • essay by Joseph D. Miller
• 212 • Physics Through Science Fiction • essay by Gregory Benford
• 219 • Science Fiction and Biology • essay by Pamela Sargent
• 227 • Science Fiction and Philosophy • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 235 • Science Fiction and the Internet • essay by Bruce Sterling
• 244 • The Reading Science Fiction Blog • essay by Marleen S. Barr