Contents (view Concise Listing)

• ix • Notes on Contributors (A Companion to Science Fiction) • essay by uncredited
• 1 • Introduction: Approaching Science Fiction • essay by uncredited
• 11 • Hard Reading: The Challenges of Science Fiction • essay by Tom Shippey
• 27 • The Origins of Science Fiction • essay by George E. Slusser [as by George Slusser]
• 43 • Science Fiction/Criticism • essay by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.
• 60 • Science Fiction Magazines: The Crucibles of Change • essay by Mike Ashley
• 79 • Utopia • essay by Phillip E. Wegner
• 95 • Science Fiction and Religion • essay by Stephen R. L. Clark
• 111 • "Monsters of the Imagination": Gothic, Science, Fiction • essay by Fred Botting
• 127 • Science Fiction and Ecology • (2005) • essay by Brian Stableford
• 142 • Feminist Fabulation • essay by Marleen S. Barr
• 156 • Time and Identity in Feminist Science Fiction • essay by Jenny Wolmark
• 171 • Science Fiction and the Cold War • essay by M. Keith Booker
• 187 • Hard Science Fiction • essay by Gary Westfahl
• 202 • The New Wave • essay by Rob Latham
• 217 • Cyberpunk • essay by Mark Bould
• 232 • Science Fiction and Postmodernism • essay by Veronica Hollinger
• 248 • The Renewal of "Hard" Science Fiction • essay by Donald M. Hassler
• 261 • American Science Fiction Film: An Overview • essay by Vivian Sobchack
• 275 • Figurations of the Cyborg in Contemporary Science Fiction Novels and Film • essay by Christine Cornea
• 289 • British Television Science Fiction • essay by Peter Wright
• 309 • Canadian Science Fiction • essay by Douglas Barbour
• 323 • Japanese and Asian Science Fiction • essay by
  巽孝之^?たつみたかゆき
  Tatsumi Takayuki
  [as by Takayuki Tatsumi]
• 337 • Australian Science Fiction • essay by Van Ikin and Sean McMullen
• 353 • The Grandeur of H. G. Wells • essay by Robert Crossley
• 364 • Isaac Asimov • essay by John Clute
• 375 • John Wyndham: The Facts of Life Sextet • essay by David Ketterer
• 389 • Philip K. Dick • essay by Christopher Palmer
• 398 • Samuel Delaney: A Biographical and Critical Overview • essay by Carl Freedman
• 408 • Ursula K. Le Guin • essay by Warren Rochelle [as by Warren G. Rochelle]
• 420 • Gwyneth Jones and the Anxieties of Science Fiction • essay by Andy Sawyer
• 431 • Arthur C. Clarke • essay by Edward James
• 441 • Greg Egan • essay by Russell Blackford
• 455 • Mary Shelley: Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus • essay by Susan E. Lederer and Richard M. Ratzan
• 466 • Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Herland • essay by Jill Rudd
• 477 • Aldous Huxley: Brave New World • essay by David Seed
• 489 • Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 • essay by Brian Baker
• 500 • Joanna Russ: The Female Man • essay by Jeanne Cortiel
• 512 • J. G. Ballard: Crash • essay by Roger Luckhurst
• 522 • Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale • essay by Faye Hammill
• 534 • William Gibson: Neuromancer • essay by Andrew M. Butler
• 544 • Kim Stanley Robinson: Mars Trilogy • essay by Carol Franko
• 556 • Iain M. Banks: Excession • essay by Farah Mendlesohn
• 567 • Index (A Companion to Science Fiction) • essay by uncredited