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• xi • Preface (The Mechanical God) • essay by Thomas P. Dunn and Richard D. Erlich
• 3 • Robots: Low-Voltage Ontological Currents • (1982) • essay by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 13 • "Read History": Dehumanization in Karel Capek's R.U.R. • essay by Barbara Bengels
• 19 • C. S. Lewis's Mechanical Fiends in That Hideous Strength • essay by Rudy S. Spraycar
• 27 • Robot Ethics and Robot Parody: Remarks on Isaac Asimov's I, Robot and Some Critical Essays and Short Stories by Stanislaw Lem • (1982) • essay by Christian W. Thomsen
• 41 • Machines and the Meaning of Human in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. • (1982) • essay by Thomas L. Wymer
• 53 • "Sixty Billion Gigabits": Liberation Through Machinesin Frederik Pohl's Gateway and Beyond The Blue Event Horizon • essay by Terri Paul
• 63 • What a Piece of Work is a Man: Mechanical Gods in the Fiction of Roger Zelazny • (1982) • essay by Carl B. Yoke
• 75 • What the Machine Teaches: Walter Tevis's Mockingbird • (1982) • essay by Donald M. Hassler
• 85 • From Little Buddy to Big Brother: The Icon of the Robot in Children's Science Fiction • (1982) • essay by Margaret P. Esmonde
• 101 • Portraits of Machine Consciousness • (1982) • essay by Russell Letson
• 109 • Neuron and Junction: Patterns of Thought in "The Andromeda Strain" • (1982) • essay by Peter S. Alterman
• 117 • Loving That Machine, or, The Mechanical Egg: Sexual Mechanisms and Metaphors in Science Fiction Films • (1982) • essay by Donald E. Palumbo [as by Donald Palumbo]
• 129 • In Search of the Ultimate Weapon: The Fighting Machine in Science Fiction Novels and Films • (1982) • essay by Leonard G. Heldreth
• 153 • How Machines Become Human: Process and Attribute • essay by Robert Reilly
• 167 • Tools/Mirrors: The Humanization of Machines • essay by Joe Sanders
• 177 • Mechanisms of Morality: Philosophical Implications of Selected (A)Moral Science Fiction Machines • essay by William M. Schuyler, Jr.
• 193 • Human, More or Less: Man-Machine Communion in Samuel R. Delany's Nova and Other Science Fiction Stories • (1982) • essay by Andrew Gordon
• 203 • The Cyborg (R)evolution in Science Fiction • (1982) • essay by Anne H. Jones
• 211 • Instrumentalities of the Body: The Mechanization of the Human Form in Science Fiction • (1982) • essay by Gary K. Wolfe
• 225 • List of Works Useful for the Study of Machines in Science Fiction • essay by Thomas P. Dunn and Richard D. Erlich
• 275 • Index (The Mechanical God) • essay by Dee Dunn