| Acknowledgements | p. vii |
| Preface | p. viii |
| The Wonder of Science Fiction | p. 1 |
| Images of Wonder: The Look of Science Fiction | p. 4 |
| 'You've Got To Be Fucking Kidding!': Knowledge, Belief and Judgement in Science Fiction | p. 11 |
| Sensuous Elaboration: Reason and the Visible in the Science Fiction Film | p. 17 |
| Between Science Fact and Science Fiction: Spielberg's Digital Dinosaurs, Possible Worlds and the New Aesthetic Realism | p. 24 |
| Science Fiction's Disaster Imagination | p. 37 |
| The Imagination of Disaster | p. 40 |
| Technophobia/Dystopia | p. 48 |
| Human Artifice and the Science Fiction Film | p. 57 |
| Dream Girls and Mechanic Panic: Dystopia and its Others in Brazil and Nineteen Eighty-Four | p. 64 |
| Spatial Abyss: The Science Fiction City | p. 75 |
| Cities on the Edge of Time: The Urban Science Fiction Film | p. 78 |
| Dark City: White Flight and the Urban Science Fiction Film in Postwar America | p. 88 |
| On the Edge of Spaces: Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell and Hong Kong's Cityscape | p. 98 |
| The Origin of Species: Time Travel and the Primal Scene | p. 113 |
| Back to the Future: Oedipus as Time Traveller | p. 116 |
| Time Travel, Primal Scene and the Critical Dystopia | p. 126 |
| Another Time, Another Space: Modernity, Subjectivity and The Time Machine | p. 136 |
| With Eyes Uplifted: Space Aliens as Sky Gods | p. 145 |
| Liquid Metal: The Cyborg in Science Fiction | p. 155 |
| A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s | p. 158 |
| Technophilia: Technology, Representation and the Feminine | p. 182 |
| Machine as Messiah: Cyborgs, Morphs and the American Body Politic | p. 191 |
| Ghosts and Machines: The Technological Body | p. 205 |
| Imitation of Life: Postmodern Science Fiction | p. 217 |
| Postfuturism | p. 220 |
| Who Programs You? The Science Fiction of the Spectacle | p. 228 |
| Prosthetic Memory: Total Recall and Blade Runner | p. 239 |
| Akira, Postmodernism and Resistance | p. 249 |
| Poaching the Universe: Science Fiction Fandom | p. 261 |
| Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten: Fan Writing as Textual Poaching | p. 264 |
| 'We're Only A Speck in the Ocean': The Fan as Powerless Elite | p. 281 |
| New Hope: The Postmodern Project of Star Wars | p. 298 |
| Web of Babylon | p. 308 |
| Look to the Skies!: 1950s Science Fiction Invasion Narratives | p. 315 |
| The Russians Are Coming, Aren't They? Them! and The Thing | p. 318 |
| Re-examining the 1950s Invasion Narratives | p. 325 |
| We're the Martians Now: British SF Invasion Fantasies of the 1950s and 1960s | p. 337 |
| Index | p. 347 |
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