Novum is as novum does

Darko Suvin

3-22

Science fiction

metaphor, myth or prophecy?

Patrick Parrinder

23-34

Modernity as a project and as self-criticism

the historical dialogue between science fiction and utopia

Gregory Paschalidis

35-47

"Dare to struggle, dare to win"

on science fiction, totality and agency in the 1990s

Tom Moylan

48-65

The monsters of botany and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Carlos Seligo

69-84

Contending forces

racial and sexual narratives in Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren

Jeffrey A. Tucker

85-99

The death of the author and the power of addiction in naked lunch and blade runner

Gloria Pastorino

100-115

The informatic jeremiad

the virtual frontier and us cyberculture

Salvatore Proietti

116-126

Doomsday looms

Gudrun Pausewang's anti-nuclear novels

Susan Tebbutt

127-139

In-between subjects

C. L. Moore's "No woman born"

Raffaella Baccolini

140-153

(Re)productive fictions

reproduction, embodiment and feminist science in Marge Piercy's science fiction

Joan Haran

154-168

The female state

science fiction alternatives to the patriarchy — Sheri Tepper's The gate to women's country and Orson Scott Card's Homecoming series

Lorna Jowett

169-192