Introduction : Approaching science fiction
pt. I. Surveying the field. Hard reading : the hard reading : the challenges of science fiction / Tom Shippey
The origins of science fiction / George Slusser
Science fiction/criticism / Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.
Science-fiction magazines : the crucibles of change / MIke Ashley
pt. II. Topics and debates. Utopia / Phillip E. Wegner
Science, fiction and religion / Stephen R.L. Clark
"Monsters of the imagination" : Gothic,science, fiction / Fred Botting
Science fiction and ecology / Brian Stableford
Feminist fabulation / Marleen S. Barr
Time and identity in feminist science fiction / Jenny Wolmark
Science fiction and the Cold War / M. Keith Booker
pt. III. Genres and movements. Hard science fiction / Gary Westfahl
The new wave / Rob Latham
Cyberpunk / Mark Bould
Science fiction and postmodernism / Veronica Hollinger
The renewal of "hard" science fiction / Donald M. Hassler
pt. IV. Science fiction film. American science fiction film : an overview / Vivian Sobchack
Figurations of the cyborg in contemporary science fiction novels and fiction / Christine Cornea
British television science fiction / Peter Wright
pt. V. The international scene. Canadian science fiction / Douglas Barbour
Japanese and Asian science fiction / Takayuki Tatsumi
Australian science fiction / Van Ikin and Sean McMullen


pt. VI. Key writers. The grandeur of H.G. Wells / Robert Crossley
Isaac Asimov / John Clute
John Wyndham : the facts of life sextet / David Ketterer
Philip Dick / Christopher Palmer
Samuel Delaney : a biographical and critical overview / Carl Freedman
Ursula K. Le Guin / Warren G. Rochelle
Gwyneth Jones anxietiesanxities of science fiction / Andy Sawyer
Arthur C. Clarke / Edward James
Greg Egan / Russell Blackford
pt. VII. Readings. Mary Shelley : Frankenstein : or, the modern Prometheus / Susan E. Lederer and Richard M. Ratzan
Charlotte Perkins Gilman : Herland / Jill Rudd
Aldous Huxley : Brave new world / David Seed
Ray Bradbury : Fahrenheit 451 / Brian Baker
Joanna Russ : The female man / Jeanne Cortiel
J.G. Ballard : Crash / Roger Luckhurst
Margaret Atwood : The handmaid's tale / Faye Hammill
William Gibson : Neuromancer / Andrew M. Butler
Kim Stanley Robinson : Mars trilogy / Carol Franko
Iain M. Banks : Excession / Farah Mendlesohn.