Critical theory -- Science fiction -- Genre, theory, and phases of canon-formation -- The critical dynamic: science fiction and style -- The critical dynamic: science fiction and the historical novel -- The critical dynamic: science fiction and utopia -- Science fiction and the canon -- Solaris: Stanisław Lem and the structure of cognition -- The dispossessed: Ursula Le Guin and the ambiguities of utopia -- The two of them: Joanna Russ and the violence of gender -- Stars in my pocket like grains of sand: Samuel Delany and the dialectics of difference -- The man in the high castle: Philip K. Dick and the construction of realities -- Coda: critical theory, science fiction, and the postmodern
