Intro
Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Science Under the Literary Microscope
Part 1: Background and Context
1. Science and Society in Recent Fiction
2. From Individual to Collective Knowledge Production: A Brief Nonfiction History
3. Between Mad and Mundane: Mixed Stereotypical and Realistic Portrayals of Science in Contemporary Fiction Media
Part 2: Embedded Science: Societal Impacts on Scientific Work and Knowledge
4. Scientists at Risk
5. Speculative Fiction and the Significance of Plausibility: Dystopian Science in the Critical Response to Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake
6. When the Scientist Is a Woman: Novels and Feminist Science Studies
7. Economization of Science: Insights from Science Novels
Part 3: Cause and Effect? Science and Its Societal Outcomes
8. The Science Fiction of Technological Modernity: Images of Science in Recent Science Fiction
9. Unruly Creatures, Obstinate Things: Bio-Objects and Scientific Knowledge Production in Contemporary Science Fiction
10. A Fictional Risk Narrative and Its Potential for Social Resonance: Reception of Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior in Reviews and Reading Groups
List of Contributors
Index.