Introduction: science fiction and this moment -- First beauty: fictive neology -- Second beauty: fictive novums -- Third beauty: future history -- Fourth beauty: imaginary science -- Fifth beauty: the science-fictional sublime -- Sixth beauty: the science-fictional grotesque -- Seventh beauty: the Technologiade -- Concluding unscientific postscript: the singularity and beyond
Summary
A major critical work from one of the preeminent voices of science fiction scholarship
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-315) and index
