Sadržaj:
  • Part I: History
  • The Copernican revolution / Adam Roberts
  • Nineteenth-century sf / Arthur B. Evans
  • Fiction 1895-1926 / John Rieder
  • Sf tourism / Brooks Landon
  • Film, 1895-1950 / J.P. Telotte
  • Fiction, 1926-1949 / Farah Mendlesohn
  • Golden age comics / Marek Wasielewski
  • Film and television, the 1950s / Mark Jancovich and Derek Johnston
  • Fiction, 1950-1963 / Rob Latham
  • Film and television, 1960-1980 / Peter Wright
  • Fiction, 1964-1979 / Helen Merrick
  • Manga and anime / Sharalyn Orbaugh
  • Silver age comics / Jim Casey
  • Film since 1980 /Sean Redmond
  • Television since 1980 / Lincoln Geraghty
  • Fiction, 1980 - 1992 / Michael Levy
  • Comics since the silver age / Abraham Kawa
  • Fiction since 1992 / Paul Kincaid
  • Part II: Theory
  • Critical race theory / Isiah Lavander III
  • Cultural history / Lisa Yaszek
  • Fan studies / Robin Anne Reid
  • Feminisms / Jane Donawerth
  • Language and linguistics / Mark Bould
  • Marxism / William J. Burling
  • Nuclear criticism / Paul Williams
  • Postcolonialism / Michelle Reid
  • Posthumanism and cyborg theory / Veronica Hollinger
  • Postmodernism / Darren Jorgensen
  • Psychoanalysis / Andrew M. Butler
  • Queer theory / Wendy Gay Pearson
  • Utopian studies / Alcena Madeline Davis Rogan
  • Virtuality / Thomas Foster
  • Part III: Issues and Challenges
  • Animal studies / Joan Gordon
  • Design for screen sf / Piers D. Britton
  • Digital games / Tanya Krzywinska and Esther Maccallum-Stewart
  • Empire / Istvan Csicsery-Ronay jr
  • Environmentalism /Patrick D. Murphy
  • Ethics and alterity / Neil Easterbrook
  • Music / Ken Mcleod
  • Pseudoscience / Roger Luckhurst
  • Science studies / Sherryl Vint
  • Space / James Kneale
  • Time, possible worlds, and counterfactuals / Matt Hills
  • Young adults sf / Joe Sutliff Sanders
  • Part IV: Subgenres
  • Alternate history / Karen Hellekson
  • Apocalyptic sf / Aris Mousoutzanis
  • Arthouse sf film / Stacey Abbott
  • Blockbuster sf film / Stacey Abbott
  • Dystopia / Graham J. Murphy
  • Eutopia / Graham J. Murphy
  • Feminist sf / Gwyneth Jones
  • Future history / Andy Sawyer
  • Hard sf / David N. Samuelson
  • Slipstream / Victoria De Zwaan
  • Space opera / Andy Sawyer
  • Weird fiction / China Miéville