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• 1 • Introduction (Learning from Other Worlds) • (1999) • essay by Patrick Parrinder
• 19 • Before the Novum: The Prehistory of Science Fiction Criticism • (1999) • essay by Edward James
• 36 • Revisiting Suvin's Poetics of Science Fiction • (1999) • essay by Patrick Parrinder
• 51 • 'Look Into the Dark': On Dystopia and the Novum • (1999) • essay by Tom Moylan
• 72 • Science Fiction and Utopia: A Historico-Philosophical Overview • (1999) • essay by Carl Freedman
• 98 • Society after the Revolution: The Blueprints for the Forthcoming Socialist Society published by the Leaders of the Second International • (1999) • essay by Marc Angenot
• 119 • From the Images of Science to Science Fiction • (1999) • essay by
  Gérard Klein^?Gerard Klein
• 127 • Estranged Invaders: The War of the Worlds • (1999) • essay by Peter Fitting
• 146 • 'A part of the ... family [?]': John Wyndham's The Midwich Cuckoos as Estranged Autobiography • (1999) • essay by David Ketterer
• 178 • Labyrinth, Double and Mask in the Science Fiction of Stanislaw Lem • (1999) • essay by
  Рафаил Нудельман^?Rafail Nudelman
  (trans. of
  Лабиринт и подмена: (Некоторые аспекты творчества С. Лема)^?Labirint i podmena: (Nekotorye aspekty tvorchestva S. Lema)
  1995) [as by Rafail Nudelman]
• 193 • 'We're at the Start of a New Ball Game and That's Why We're All Real Nervous': Or, Cloning - Technological Cognition Reflects Estrangement from Women • (1999) • essay by Marleen S. Barr
• 208 • 'If I find one good city I will spare the man': Realism and Utopia in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy • (1999) • essay by Fredric Jameson
• 233 • Afterword: With Sober, Estranged Eyes • (1999) • essay by Darko Suvin
• 272 • Checklist of Printed Items that Concern Science Fiction (with Utopian Fiction or Utopianism, and a few Bordering Items) • (1999) • essay by Darko Suvin