附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-192) and index.
Pt. I. Modern science fiction. 1. New World, New Texts. 2. Generic Engineering. 3. Genre Or Mode? 4. The Uses of Otherness. 5. Reading the Episteme. 6. Dreams of Reason and Unreason. 7. The Stars My Dissertation -- pt. II. Postmodern science fiction. 8. Making Up Worlds. 9. Allography and Allegory. 10. SF as a Modular Calculus. 11. The Multiplicity of Worlds, of Others. 12. The Autumnal City.