What is included with this book?
Introduction: Of Futures Imagined, and Futures Inhabited | p. 1 |
Cosmic Visions | |
Pitfalls of Prophecy: Why Science Fiction So Often Fails to Predict the Future | p. 9 |
Emotional Dimensions of Transmimetic Fiction: Emotion, Aesthetics, Ethics, and Rhetoric in Tales of Tomorrow's Science, Technology, and Technoscience | p. 23 |
The Internet and the Anagogical Myths of Science Fiction | p. 41 |
Technobodies and the Anxieties of Performance | p. 52 |
Places of Alterity in Science Fiction | p. 64 |
The Practice of Prophecy | |
Future City Toyko: 1909 and 2009 | p. 84 |
Rebooting "A Logic Named Joe": Exploring the Multiple Influences of a Strangely Predictive Mid-1940s Short Story | p. 104 |
Victims of a Globalized, Radicalized, Technologized World, or, Why the Beatles Needed Help! | p. 120 |
"A Journey Beyond the Stars": 2001: A Space Odyssey and the Psychedelic Revolution in 1960s Science Fiction | p. 128 |
The Endless Odyssey: The 2001 Saga and Its Inability to Predict Humanity's Future | p. 135 |
Intercultural and Interface: Kung Fu as Abstract Machine | p. 171 |
Post-Genre Cinemas and Post-Colonial Attitude: Hong Kong Meets Paris | p. 189 |
Writing, Weaving, and Technology | p. 198 |
The Technological Contours of Contemporary Science Fiction, or, The Science Fiction That Science Fiction Doesn't See | p. 213 |
Thinking About the Smart Wireless World | p. 220 |
Bibliography of Works Related to Science Fiction and the Prediction of the Future | p. 229 |
Bibliography of Other Works Cited in the Text | p. 241 |
About the Contributors | p. 253 |
Index | p. 255 |
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