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• vii • Introduction. Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime • essay by Christopher Bolton and Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. and
  巽孝之^?たつみたかゆき
  Tatsumi Takayuki
  [as by Christopher Bolton and Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. and Takayuki Tatsumi]
• 3 •
  Horror and Machines in Prewar Japan: The Mechanical Uncanny in Yumeno Kyūsaku's Dogura Magura^?Horror and Machines in Prewar Japan: The Mechanical Uncanny in Yumeno Kyusaku's Dogura Magura
  • essay by Miri Nakamura
• 27 • Has the Empire Sunk Yet? The Pacific in Japanese Science Fiction • essay by
  Thomas Schnellbächer^?Thomas Schnellbaecher
• 47 • Alien Spaces and Alien Bodies in Japanese Women's Science Fiction • essay by
  小谷真理^?こたにまり
  Kotani Mari
  [as by Kotani Mari]
• 75 • SF as Hamlet: Science Fiction and Philosophy • essay by
  東浩紀^?Azuma Hiroki
  [as by Azuma Hiroki]
• 83 • Tsutsui Yasutaka and the Multimedia Performance of Authorship • essay by William O. Gardner
• 101 • When the Machines Stop: Fantasy, Reality, and Terminal Identity in Neon Genesis Evangelion and Serial Experiments: Lain • essay by Susan J. Napier
• 123 • The Mecha's Blind Spot: Patlabor 2 and the Phenomenology of Anime • essay by Christopher Bolton
• 148 • Words of Alienation, Words of Flight: Loanwords in Science Fiction Anime • essay by Hiroko Chiba and Naoki Chiba
• 172 • Sex and the Single Cyborg: Japanese Popular Culture Experiments in Subjectivity • essay by Sharalyn Orbaugh
• 193 • Invasion of the Woman Snatchers: The Problem of A-Life and the Uncanny in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within • essay by Livia Monnet
• 222 • Otaku Sexuality • essay by Saitō Tamaki
• 250 • Afterword. A Very Soft Time Machine: From Translation to Transfiguration • essay by
  巽孝之^?たつみたかゆき
  Tatsumi Takayuki
  [as by Takayuki Tatsumi]