Science Fiction in the Real World

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Introduction ix
• Literature and Genre: A Critical Overview 1
• Critical Standards 3
• Science Fiction versus Sci-Fi 18
• Inside, Outside 34
• Alternate Media: Visual Translations 57
• The Graphic Novel 59
• Books into Movies 77
• Modes of Content: Hard Sf, Cyberpunk, and the Space Visionaries 91
• The Hard Stuff 93
• The Neuromantic Cyberpunks 109
• Dreams of Space 122
• Psychopolitics and Science Fiction: Heroes-True and Otherwise 137
• Must There Be War? 139

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Introduction ix
• Literature and Genre: A Critical Overview 1
• Critical Standards 3
• Science Fiction versus Sci-Fi 18
• Inside, Outside 34
• Alternate Media: Visual Translations 57
• The Graphic Novel 59
• Books into Movies 77
• Modes of Content: Hard Sf, Cyberpunk, and the Space Visionaries 91
• The Hard Stuff 93
• The Neuromantic Cyberpunks 109
• Dreams of Space 122
• Psychopolitics and Science Fiction: Heroes-True and Otherwise 137
• Must There Be War? 139
• Emperor of Everything 149
• Masters of the Form: Careers in Profile 165
• Sturgeon, Vonnegut, and Trout 167
• The Strange Case of J.G. Ballard 182
• The Transmogrification of Philip K. Dick 198
• Science Fiction in the Real World 217
• Index 227