CONTENTS	6
	CONTRIBUTORS	11
	ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	18
	INTRODUCTION	20
	Part I HISTORY	24
	1 THE COPERNICAN REVOLUTION	26
	2 NINETEENTH-CENTURY SF	36
	3 FICTION, 1895–1926	46
	4 SF TOURISM	55
	5 FILM, 1895–1950	65
	6 FICTION, 1926–1949	75
	7 GOLDEN AGE COMICS	85
	8 FILM AND TELEVISION, THE 1950S	94
	9 FICTION, 1950–1963	103
	10 FILM AND TELEVISION, 1960–1980	113
	11 FICTION, 1964–1979	125
	12 MANGA AND ANIME	135
	13 SILVER AGE COMICS	146
	14 FILM SINCE 1980	157
	15 TELEVISION SINCE 1980	167
	16 FICTION, 1980–1992	176
	17 COMICS SINCE THE SILVER AGE	186
	18 FICTION SINCE 1992	197
	Part II THEORY	206
	19 CRITICAL RACE THEORY	208
	20 CULTURAL HISTORY	217
	21 FAN STUDIES	227
	22 FEMINISMS	237
	23 LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS	248
	24 MARXISM	259
	25 NUCLEAR CRITICISM	269
	26 POSTCOLONIALISM	279
	27 POSTHUMANISM AND CYBORG THEORY	290
	28 POSTMODERNISM	302
	29 PSYCHOANALYSIS	311
	30 QUEER THEORY	321
	31 UTOPIAN STUDIES	331
	32 VIRTUALITY	340
	Part III ISSUES AND CHALLENGES	352
	33 ANIMAL STUDIES	354
	34 DESIGN FOR SCREEN SF	364
	35 DIGITAL GAMES	373
	36 EMPIRE	385
	37 ENVIRONMENTALISM	396
	38 ETHICS AND ALTERITY	405
	39 MUSIC	416
	40 PSEUDOSCIENCE	426
	41 SCIENCE STUDIES	436
	42 SPACE	446
	43 TIME, POSSIBLE WORLDS, AND COUNTERFACTUALS	456
	44 YOUNG ADULT SF	465
	Part IV SUBGENRES	474
	45 ALTERNATE HISTORY	476
	46 APOCALYPTIC SF	481
	47 ARTHOUSE SF FILM	486
	48 BLOCKBUSTER SF FILM	491
	49 DYSTOPIA	496
	50 EUTOPIA	501
	51 FEMINIST SF	507
	52 FUTURE HISTORY	512
	53 HARD SF	517
	54 SLIPSTREAM	523
	55 SPACE OPERA	528
	56 WEIRD FICTION	533
	INDEX	540