Reading Science Fiction

Notes on Contributors.- Introduction.- PART I: MAPPING SCIENCE FICTION.- Introduction to Part I.- Defining Science Fiction; E.S.Rabkin.- What is Science Fiction and How it Grew; H.Franklin.- Narrative Strategies in Science Fiction; B.Stableford.- There is No Such Thing as Science Fiction; M.Bould & S.Vint.- PART II: SCIENCE FICTION AND POPULAR CULTURE.- Introduction to Part II.- Science Fiction Movies: The Fued of Eye and Idea: G.Zebrowski.- The Feedback Loop; M.Cassutt.- Computers in Science Fiction; B.Landon.- Cross-Fertilization or Coincidence? Science Fiction and Video Games; O.S.Card.- PART III: THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO SCIENCE FICTION.- Introduction to Part III.- Gender is a Problem That Can Be Solved: Women's SF and Feminist Theory; J.Donawerth.- Marxism and SF; C.Freedman.- Reading SF with Postcolonial Theory; M.Candelaria.- Encountering International Science Fiction Through a Latin American Lens; R.de Sousa Causo.- PART IV: READING SCIENCE FICTION IN THE CLASSROOM.- Introduction to Part IV.- Reading Science Fiction as Science Fiction; J.Gunn.- Reading Joanna Russ in Context: Science, Utopia and Postmodernity; J.Cortiel.- Reading Science Fiction's Interdisciplinary Conversation with Science and Technology Studies; D.Davis & L.Yaszek.- PART V: SCIENCE FICTION AND DIVERSE DISCIPLINES.- Introduction to Part V.- Neuroscience Fiction Redux; J.D.Miller.- Physics Through Science Fiction; G.Benford.- Science Fiction and Biology; P.Sargent.- Science Fiction and Philosophy; J.Gunn.- Science Fiction and the Internet; B.Sterling.- The Reading Science Fiction Blog.- Bibliography.- Index.