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.