Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology Of Essential Writings

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1 Definitions and boundaries
	1 Editorial: A new sort of magazine • Hugo Gernsback
	2 Preface to The Scientific Romances • H. G. Wells
	3 On the writing of speculative fiction • Robert A. Heinlein
	4 What do you mean: Science? Fiction? • Judith Merril
	5 Preface to Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology • Bruce Sterling
	6 Cybernetic deconstructions: Cyberpunk and postmodernism • Veronica Hollinger
	7 The many deaths of science fiction: A polemic • Roger Luckhurst
	8 On defining sf, or not: Genre theory, sf, and history • John Rieder
	Recommended further reading
Part 2 Structure and form
	9 Which way to inner space? • J. G. Ballard
	10 About 5,750 words • Samuel R. Delany
	11 On the poetics of the science fiction genre • Darko Suvin
	12 The absent paradigm: An introduction to the semiotics of science fiction • Marc Angenot
	13 Reading sf as a mega-text • Damien Broderick
	14 Time travel and the mechanics of narrative • David Wittenberg
	Recommended further reading
Part 3 Ideology and world view
	15 Mutation or death! • John B. Michel
	16 The imagination of disaster • Susan Sontag
	17 The image of women in science fiction • Joanna Russ
	18 Progress versus Utopia; or, can we imagine thefuture? • Fredric Jameson
	19 Science fiction and critical theory • Carl Freedman
	20 Alien cryptographies: The view from queer • Wendy Pearson
	21 The women history doesn’t see: Recovering midcentury women’s sf as a literature of social critique • Lisa Yaszek
	Recommended further reading
Part 4 The nonhuman
	22 Author’s introduction to Frankenstein • Mary Shelley
	23 The android and the human • Philip K. Dick
	24 A cyborg manifesto: Science, technology, and socialist feminism in the late twentieth century • Donna Haraway
	25 Virtual bodies and flickering signifiers • N. Katherine Hayles
	26 The coming technological singularity: How to survive in a post-human era • Vernor Vinge
	27 Aliens in the fourth dimension • Gwyneth Jones
	28 Technofetishism and the uncanny desires of A.S.F.R. (alt.sex.fetish.robots) • Allison de Fren
	29 Animal alterity: Science fiction and human-animal studies • Sherryl Vint
	Recommended further reading
Part 5 Race and the legacy of colonialism
	30 Science fiction and empire • Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.
	31 Further considerations on Afrofuturism • Kodwo Eshun
	32 Indigenous scientific literacies in Nalo Hopkinson’s ceremonial worlds • Grace L. Dillon
	33 Biotic invasions: Ecological imperialism in new wave science fiction • Rob Latham
	34 Alien/Asian: Imagining the racialized future • Stephen Hong Sohn
	35 Report from planet midnight • Nalo Hopkinson
	36 Future histories and cyborg labor: Reading borderlands science fiction after NAFTA • Lysa Rivera
	Recommended further reading
List of contributors
Index