• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• 1. Definitions
• Critical Theory
• Science Fiction
• 2. Articulations
• Genre, Theory, and Phases of Canon-Formation
• The Critical Dynamic: Science Fiction and Style
• The Critical Dynamic: Science Fiction and the Historical Novel
• The Critical Dynamic: Science Fiction and Utopia
• Science Fiction and the Canon
• 3. Excurses
• Solaris: Stanislaw Lem and the Structure of Cognition
• The Dispossessed: Ursula Le Guin and the Ambiguities of Utopia
• The Two of Them: Joanna Russ and the Violence of Gender
• Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand : Samuel Delany and the Dialectics of Difference
• The Man in the High Castle: Philip K. Dick and the Construction of Realities.
• Coda: Critical Theory, Science Fiction, and the Postmodern
• Index