Science and science fiction / Ian Blatchford

What is science fiction for? / Nalo Hopkinson

Introduction: Imagining science fiction / Glyn Morgan

1. People and Machines

People as machines/Machine people / Sherryl Vint

In the loop: reordering human-technology relations / Colin Milburn

Interview with Chen Quifan

2. Travelling the Cosmos

Prototyping the future: spaceflight as screen spectacle / Richard Dunn

Beyond the solar system / Rachael Livermore

Interview with Charlie Jane Anders

3. Communication and Language

Communications / Roger Luckhurst

A century of science fiction from around the world / Rachel S. Cordasco

Interview with Vandana Singh

4. Aliens and Alienation

Alien speculation: science, fiction and the future / Amanda Rees

Infinite diversity: pleasures of the unknown / Glyn Morgan

Interview with Tade Thompson

5. Anxieties and Hopes

Science fiction in the atomic age / Daniel Cordle

Climate in science fiction / Caroline Edwards

Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson.