Science and society in recent fiction / Natalie Roxburgh and Jay Clayton -- From individual to collective knowledge production : a brief nonfiction history / Peter Weingart and Luiz María Hernández Nieto -- Between mad and mundane : mixed stereotypical and realistic portrayals of science in contemporary fiction media / Luiz María Hernández Nieto and Peter Weingart -- Scientists at risk / Roslynn D. Haynes and Raymond Haynes -- Speculative fiction and the significance of plausibility : dystopian science in the critical response to Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake / Anna Auguscik, Sina Farzin, Emanuel Herold, and Anton Kirchhofer -- When the scientist is a woman : novels and feminist science studies / Carol Colatrella -- Economization of science : insights from science novels / Uwe Schimank -- The science fiction of technological modernity : images of science in recent science fiction / Sherryl Vint -- Unruly creatures, obstinate things : bio-objects and scientific knowledge production in contemporary science fiction / Karin Hoepker and Antje Kley -- A fictional risk narrative and its potential for social resonance : reception of Barbara Kingsolver's Flight behavior in reviews and reading groups / Sonja Fücker, Anna Auguscik, Anton Kirchhofer, and Uwe Schimank.
