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• xi • Preface (Clockwork Worlds: Mechanized Environments in SF) • essay by uncredited
• 3 • Introduction (Clockwork Worlds: Mechanized Environments in SF) • essay by Arthur O. Lewis
• 21 • Dante's Hell as an Ideal Mechanical Environment • essay by Merritt Abrash
• 27 • Cog-Work: The Organization of Labor in Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and in Later Utopian Fiction • essay by Reimer Jehmlich
• 47 • E. M. Forster's 'The Machine Stops': Liberal-Humanist Hostility to Technology • essay by Charles L. Elkins [as by Charles Elkins]
• 63 • Origins of Dystopia: When the Sleeper Wakes and We • essay by Alexandra Aldridge
• 85 • Man as Robot: The Taylor System in We • essay by Gorman Beauchamp
• 97 • Harlan Ellison and Robert A. Heinlein: The Paradigm Makers • essay by C. W. Sullivan, III
• 105 • The Programmed Utopia of R. A. Lafferty's Past Master • essay by William H. Hardesty, III
• 115 • Elusive Utopias: Societies as Mechanisms in the Early Fiction of Philip K. Dick • essay by Merritt Abrash
• 125 • The Theme of Mechanization in Player Piano • essay by Thomas P. Hoffman
• 137 • Pilgrim's Progress: Is Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Winning His War with Machines? • (1982) • essay by Lawrence R. Broer [as by Lawrence Broer]
• 163 • Merging Madness: Rollerball as a Cautionary Tale • essay by Elizabeth Anne Hull
• 183 • Electric Eve: Images of Female Computers in Science Fiction • essay by Valerie Broege
• 195 • Love and the Technocracy: Dehumanization in Social Welfare • essay by Phyllis J. Day
• 213 • Clockwork Reels: Mechanized Environments in Science Fiction Films • essay by Leonard G. Heldreth [as by Leonard Heldreth]
• 235 • Machines Are Good to Think: A Structural Analysis of Myth and Mechanization • essay by Daniel W. Ingersoll, Jr.
• 263 • List of Works Useful for the Study of Mechanized Environments in SF • essay by Thomas P. Dunn and Richard D. Erlich