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• vii • Preface (Vintage Visions: Essays on Early Science Fiction) • essay by Arthur B. Evans
• 1 • Cyrano de Bergerac's Epistemological Bodies: "Pregnant with a Thousand Definitions" • essay by Sylvie Romanowski
• 22 • Afterword (Cyrano de Bergerac's Epistemological Bodies: "Pregnant with a Thousand Definitions") • essay by Ishbel Addyman
• 25 • Samuel Madden's Memoirs of the Twentieth Century • essay by Paul K. Alkon
• 47 • German Theories of Science Fiction: Jean Paul, Kurd Lasswitz, and After • (1978) • essay by William B. Fischer
• 66 • Monstrosity, Suffering, Subjectivity, and Sympathetic Community in Frankenstein and "The Structure of Torture" • essay by Josh Bernatchez
• 82 • Science Fiction vs. Scientific Fiction in France: From Jules Verne to J.-H. Rosny Aîné • essay by Arthur B. Evans
• 96 • Future-War Fiction: The First Main Phase, 1871-1900 • (2012) • essay by I. F. Clarke
• 123 • Afterword (Future-War Fiction: The First Main Phase, 1871-1900) • essay by Margaret Clarke
• 124 • The Anatomical Gaze in Tomorrow's Eve • essay by Allison de Fren
• 163 • Desde Júpiter: Chile's Earliest Science-Fiction Novel • essay by Andrea L. Bell [as by Andrea Bell]
• 177 • The First Wave: Latin American Science Fiction Discovers Its Roots • essay by Rachel Haywood Ferreira
• 217 • "Tell Us All About Little Rosebery": Topicality and Temporality in H. G. Wells's The Time Machine • essay by Nicholas Ruddick
• 240 •
  The Phenomenology of Robots: Confrontations with Death in Karel Čapek's R.U.R.^?The Phenomenology of Robots: Confrontations with Death in Karel Capek's R.U.R.
  • essay by Kamila Kinyon
• 267 • Zamyatin and the Nightmare of Technology • essay by Patrick A. McCarthy
• 278 • "The Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe Type of Story": Hugo Gernsback's History of Science Fiction • essay by Gary Westfahl
• 298 • The Historical Death Ray and Science Fiction in the 1920s and 1930s • essay by William J. Fanning, Jr.
• 325 • C. L. Moore and the Conventions of Women's Science Fiction • essay by Susan Gubar
• 340 • Afterword (C. L. Moore and the Conventions of Women's Science Fiction) • essay by Veronica Hollinger
• 342 • On Stapledon's Star Maker • (2001) • essay by
  Stanisław Lem^?Stanislaw Lem
  [as by Stanislaw Lem]
• 350 • Afterword (On Stapledon's Star Maker) • essay by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.
• 353 • 150 Key Works of Early Science Fiction • essay by Arthur B. Evans and Javier A. Martínez
• 357 • Bibliography of Criticism on Early Science Fiction • essay by Arthur B. Evans and Javier A. Martínez