Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1 Positioning sf Criticism -- 1 Novum Is as Novum Does -- 2 Scien< -- :e Fiction: Metaphor, Myth or Prophecy? -- 3...
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Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1 Positioning sf Criticism -- 1 Novum Is as Novum Does -- 2 Scien< -- :e Fiction: Metaphor, Myth or Prophecy? -- 3 Modernity as a Project and as Self-Criticism: The Historical Dialogue between Science Fiction and Utopia -- 4 'Dare to struggle, dare to win': On Science Fiction, Totality and Agency in the 1990s -- Part 2 Envisioning Alternatives: Reading sf -- 5 The Monsters of Botany and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- 6 Contending Forces: Racial and Sexual Narratives in Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren -- 7 The Death of the Author and the Power of Addiction in Naked Lunch and Blade Runner -- 8 The lnformatic Jeremiad: The Virtual Frontier and US Cyberculture -- 9 Doomsday Looms: Gudrun Pausewang's Anti-Nuclear Novels -- 10 In-Between Subjects: C. L. Moore's 'No Woman Born' -- 11 (Re)Productive Fictions: Reproduction, Embodiment and Feminist Science in Marge Piercy's Science Fiction -- 12 The Female State: Science Fiction Alternatives to the Patriarchy- Sheri Tepper's The Gate to Women's Country and Orson Scott Card's Homecoming Series -- Bibliography -- Index.
