Introduction. Rough guide to a lonely planet, from Nemo to Neo / Mark Bould
The anamorphic estrangements of science fiction / Matthew Beaumont
Art as 'the basic technique of life': utopian art and art in utopia in The dispossessed and Blue Mars / William J. Burling
Marxism, cinema and some dialectics of science fiction and film noir / Carl Freedman
Spectacle, technology and colonialism in SF cinema : the case of Wim Wenders' Until the end of the world / John Rieder
The Singularity is here / Steven Shaviro
Species and species-being: alienated subjectivity and the commodification of animals / Sherryl Vint
Ken MacLeod's permanent revolution: utopian possible worlds, history and the Augenblick in the Fall revolution quartet / Phillip Wegner
'Madonna in moon rocket with breeches': Weimar SF film criticism during the stabilisation period / Iris Luppa
The urban question in new wave SF / Rob Latham
Towards a revolutionary science fiction: Althusser's critique of historicity / Darren Jorgensen
Utopia and science fiction revisited / Andrew Milner
Afterword: cognition as ideology: a dialectic of SF theory / China Miéville.