Description: Table of Contents Preface Introduction: The Reboot Experience Part I : Narrative Theory 1. How Stories Work Part II : Text Introduction 2. Red Shirts and Blue Lightsabers: Description as Visual Signs 3. Puppets and Suits versus Digital Effects: Medium and deleteTechnology 4. Power of the Score: Music and Sound Part III : Story Introduction 5. Cheering in the Theater: Sequence and Chronology 6. "A certain point of view": Focalization Part IV : Fabula Introduction 7. "Our destinies have changed": Events and Process 8. Alien Terrorists in New York: Setting and Place 9. Family Relations and Tensions: Actors and Characters 10. Medical Student to FBI Agent: Actors and Functions Part V : Narrative Worlds of Science Fiction Introduction 11. World Building: Alternative Narratologies for Science Fiction 12. The Franchise World: The Role of Narrative Context and deleteCanon 13. The "Real" World: Traces of the Cultural Context Afterword: The Fandom Experience Appendix: For Further Reading Chapter Notes Works Cited Index

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