The wonder of science fiction: Images of wonder: the look of science fiction -- 'You've got to be fucking kidding!': knowledge, belief and judgment in science fiction -- Sensuous elaboration: reason and the visible in the science fiction film -- Between science fact and science fiction: Spielberg's digital dinosaurs, possible worlds and the new aesthetic realism -- Science fiction's disaster imagination: The imagination of disaster -- Technophobia/dystopia -- Human artifice and the science fiction film -- Dream girls and mechanic panic: dystopia and others in "Brazil" and "Nineteen Eighty-Four" -- Spatial abyss: the science fiction city: cities on the edge of time: the urban science fiction film -- Dark city: white flight and the urban science fiction film in postwar America -- On the edges of spaces: "Blade Runner", "Ghost in the Shell" and Hong Kong's cityscape -- The origin of species: time travel and the primal scene: "Back to the Future": Oedipus as time traveller -- Time travel, primal scene and the critical dystopia -- Another time, another space: modernity, subjectivity and the time machine -- With eyes uplifted: space aliens as sky gods -- Liquid metal: the cyborg in science fiction: A manifesto for cyborgs: science, technology and socialist feminism in the 1980s -- Technophilia: Technology, representation and the feminine -- Machine as messiah: cyborgs, morphs and the American body public -- Ghosts and machines: the technological body -- Imitation of life: postmodern science fiction: Postfuturism -- Who programs you? the science fiction of the spectacle -- Prosthetic memory: "Total Recall" and "Blade Runner" -- "Akira", postmodernism and resistance -- Poaching the universe: science fiction fandom: "Star Trek" rerun, reread, rewritten: fan writing as textual poaching -- 'We're only a speck in the ocean': the fan as powerless elite -- New hope: the postmodern project of "Star Wars" -- Web of Babylon. Look to the skies!: 1950s science fiction invasion narratives: The Russians are coming, aren't they?: "Them!" and "The Thing" -- Re-examining the 1950s invasion narratives -- We're the Martians now: British SF invasion fantasies of the 1950s and 1960s.
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