Table of Contents

Introduction: Of Futures Imagined, and Futures Inhabited
GARY WESTFAHL     

I. Cosmic Visions
1. Pitfalls of Prophecy: Why Science Fiction So Often Fails to Predict the Future
GARY WESTFAHL     
2. Emotional Dimensions of Transmimetic Fiction: Emotion, Aesthetics, Ethics, and Rhetoric in Tales of Tomorrow’s
Science, Technology, and Technoscience
RICHARD L. MCKINNEY     
3. The Internet and the Anagogical Myths of Science Fiction
KIRK HAMPTON AND CAROL MACKAY     
4. Technobodies and the Anxieties of Performance
VERONICA HOLLINGER     
5. Places of Alterity in Science Fiction
RICHARD L. MCKINNEY     

II. The Practice of Prophecy
6. Future City Toyko: 1909 and 2009
SHARALYN ORBAUGH     
7. Rebooting “A Logic Named Joe”: Exploring the Multiple Influences of a Strangely Predictive Mid–1940s Short Story
DAVID L. FERRO AND ERIC G. SWEDIN     
8. Victims of a Globalized, Radicalized, Technologized World, or, Why the Beatles Needed Help!
LYNNE LUNDQUIST     
9. “A Journey Beyond the Stars”: 2001: A Space Odyssey and the Psychedelic Revolution in 1960s Science Fiction
ROB LATHAM     
10. The Endless Odyssey: The 2001 Saga and Its Inability to Predict Humanity’s Future
GARY WESTFAHL     
11. Intercultural and Interface: Kung Fu as Abstract Machine
WONG KIN YUEN     
12. Post-Genre Cinemas and Post-Colonial Attitude: Hong Kong Meets Paris
VÉRONIQUE FLAMBARD-WEISBART     
13. Writing, Weaving, and Technology
AMY KIT-SZE CHAN     
14. The Technological Contours of Contemporary Science Fiction, or, The Science Fiction That Science Fiction Doesn’t
BROOKS LANDON     
15. Thinking About the Smart Wireless World
GREGORY BENFORD     

Bibliography of Works Related to Science Fiction and the Prediction of the Future     
Bibliography of Other Works Cited in the Text     
About the Contributors     
Index