Description: IIntroduction: Edging into the Future Veronica Hollinger and Joan Gordon PART ONE: GENRE IMPLOSION 1. Evaporating Genre: Strategies of Dissolution in the Postmodern Fantastic --Gary K. Wolfe 2. Omniphage: Rock 'n' Roll and Avant-Pop Science Fiction --Lance Olsen 3. Synthespians, Virtual Humans, and Hypermedia: Emerging Contours of Post-Sf-Film --Brooks Landon PART TWO: IMPLODED SUBJECTS AND REINSCRIPTED BODIES 4. Staying with the Body: Narratives of the Posthuman in Contemporary Science Fiction --Jenny Wolmark 5. "But Aren't Those Just ... You Know, Metaphors?": Postmodern Figuration in the Science Fiction of James Morrow and Gwyneth Jones --Brian Attebery 6. Sex/uality and the Figure of the Hermaphrodite in Science Fiction; or, The Revenge of Herculine Barbin --Wendy Pearson 7. Mutant Youth: Posthuman Fantasies and High-Tech Consumption in 1990s Science Fiction --Rob Latham 8. "Going Postal": Rage, Science Fiction, and the Ends of the American Subject --Roger Luckhurst PART THREE: REIMAGINED APOCALYPSES AND EXPLODED COMMUNITIES 9. Apocalypse Coma --Veronica Hollinger 10. Kairos: The Enchanted Loom --Gwyneth Jones 11. Dead Letters and Their Inheritors: Ecospasmic Crashes and the Post-Mortal Condition in Brian Stableford's Histories of the Future --Brian Stableford 12. Utopia, Genocide, and the Other: Science Fiction Explores the Truly Monstrous Joan Gordon 13. Dis-Imagined Communities: Science Fiction and the Future of Nations --Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. Notes Bibliography List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments

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