Chapter 1 Introducing the Future: the Dawn of Science-Fiction Criticism

Chapter 2 History in SF: What (Hasn’t Yet) Happened in History

Chapter 3 The Ruins of the Future: Macaulay’s New Zealander and the Spirit of the Age

Chapter 4 Celluloid Scientists: Futures Visualised

Chapter 5 Losing the Sense of Space: Forster’s ‘The Machine Stops’ and Jameson’s «Third Machine Age»

Chapter 6 Boys, Battleships, Books: the Cult of the Navy in US Juvenile Fiction, 1898–1919

Chapter 7 American Dreams and Edwardian Aspirations: Technological Innovation and Temporal Uncertainty in Narratives of Expectation

Chapter 8 Filing the Future: Reporting on World War Three

Chapter 10 A New World Made to Order: Making Sense of the Future in a Global Era

Chapter 11 Sign, Symbol, Power: the New Martian Novel

Chapter 12 Starship Troopers, Galactic Heroes, Mercenary Princes: the Military and its Discontents in Science Fiction

Chapter 13 Terrible Angels: Science Fiction and the Singularity