Table of Contents

Part 1 Modern Science Fiction; Chapter 1 New World, New Texts; Chapter 2 Generic Engineering; Chapter 3 Genre or Mode?; Chapter 4 The Uses of Otherness; Chapter 5 Reading the Episteme; Chapter 6 Dreams of Reason and Unreason; Chapter 7 The Stars My Dissertation; Part 2 Postmodern Science Fiction; Chapter 8 Making Up Worlds; Chapter 9 Allography and Allegory; Chapter 10 Sf as a Modular Calculus; Chapter 11 The Multiplicity of Worlds, of Others; Chapter 12 The Autumnal City;

About the Author

Damien Broderick, author of The Architecture of Babel: Discourses of Literature and Science, is an award-winning writer who sold his first collection of stories at 20, has published eight novels and holds a PhD in the semiotics of science, literature and science fiction.