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• 1 • Introduction (Science Fiction and Computing: Essays on Interlinked Domains) • essay by David L. Ferro
• 13 • Technology's Other Storytellers: Science Fiction as History of Technology • essay by Thomas Haigh
• 38 • Computers in Science Fiction: Anxiety and Anticipation • essay by Chris Pak
• 54 • Murray Leinster and "A Logic Named Joe" • essay by David L. Ferro and Eric G. Swedin
• 68 • Atorox, Finnish Fictional Robot with a Changing Personality in the Late 1940s • essay by Jaakko Suominen
• 70 •  Diagram for the R.U.R. robot • interior artwork by uncredited
• 74 •  Atorox Venuksessa (cover photo) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 75 •  Atorox Marsissa (cover photo) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 76 •  The Atorox Trophy (photo) • interior artwork by Tomi Junnila
• 83 • Computer Science on the Planet Krypton • essay by Gary Westfahl
• 95 • Manned Space Flight and Artificial Intelligence: "Natural" Trajectories of Technology • essay by Paul E. Ceruzzi
• 103 •  Shakey with scientist Charlie Rosen at the Stanford Research Institute (photo) • interior artwork by Stanford Research Institute
• 109 •  The 3-inch-high iRobot Roomba is programmed in LISP (photo) • interior artwork by David L. Ferro
• 117 • "That Does Not Compute": The Brittleness Bottleneck and the Problem of Semantics in Science Fiction • essay by Lisa Nocks
• 131 • "Hello, Computer": The Interplay of Star Trek and Modern Computing • essay by Joshua Cuneo
• 134 •  The UNIVAC machines inspired the Enterprise consoles in Star Trek (photo) • interior artwork by NASA
• 137 •  Kirk (William Shatner) and Spock (Leonard Nimoy) use a portable communicator to talk to the ship in "The Trouble with Tribbles" (photo) • (1967) • interior artwork by CBS Television Studios
• 137 •  These flip-top communicators inspired the cell phone (photo) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 139 •  Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and Kirk (William Shatner) use the tricorder in "The City on the Edge of Forever" • (1967) • interior artwork by CBS Television Studios
• 142 •  Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) sports a lapel pin communicator in "Matter of Perspective" • (1990) • interior artwork by CBS Television Studios
• 148 • Turn off the Gringo Machine! The "Electronic Brain" and Cybernetic Imaging in Brazilian Cinema • essay by Alfredo Suppia
• 167 • A (Brave New) World Is More Than a Few Gizmos Crammed Together: Science Fiction and Cyberculture • essay by Thierry Bardini
• 189 • True Risks? The Pleasures and Perils of Cyberspace • essay by Janet Abbate
• 205 • Science Fiction as Myth: Cultural Logic in Gibson's Neuromancer • essay by R. C. Alvarado
• 214 • Creating a Techno-Mythology for a New Age: The Production History of The Lawnmower Man • essay by David A. Kirby
• 230 • Embodiment, Emotion, and Moral Experience: The Human and the Machine in Film • essay by Hunter Heyck
• 249 • "Predicting the Present": Overclocking Doctorow's Overclocked • essay by Graham J. Murphy
• 264 • "Low on Milk. I Love You!" • essay by Howard Tayler [as by Howard Taylor]
• 271 •  Fishing Trip • interior artwork by Howard Tayler [as by Howard Taylor]
• 273 • Nanotechnology Tomorrows: Nanocritters and Other Tiny Things in Science Fiction • essay by Richard L. McKinney
• 289 • Imagining the Omniscient Computer • essay by David Toomey