Chapter 1 Novum Is as Novum Does

Chapter 2 Science Fiction: Metaphor, Myth or Prophecy?

Chapter 3 Modernity as a Project and as Self-Criticism: The Historical Dialogue between Science Fiction and Utopia

Chapter 4 ‘Dare to struggle, dare to win’: On Science Fiction, Totality and Agency in the 1990s

Chapter 5 The Monsters of Botany and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Chapter 6 Contending Forces: Racial and Sexual Narratives in Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren

Chapter 7 The Death of the Author and the Power of Addiction in Naked Lunch and Blade Runner

Chapter 9 Doomsday Looms: Gudrun Pausewang’s Anti-Nuclear Novels

Chapter 10 In-Between Subjects: C. L. Moore’s ‘No Woman Born’

Chapter 11 (Re)Productive Fictions; Reproduction, Embodiment and Feminist Science in Marge Piercy’s Science Fiction

Chapter 12 The Female State: Science Fiction Alternatives to the Patriarchy — Sheri Tepper’s The Gate to Women’s Country and Orson Scott Card’s Homecoming Series