• Prefaces and Acknowledgments
• Ethical Aesthetics, An Introduction – Matthew Cheney
• About 5,750 Words
• Critical Methods / Speculative Fiction
• Quarks
• Thickening the Plot
• Faust and Archimedes
• Alyx
• Prisoners’ Sleep
• Letter to the Symposium on “Women In Science Fiction”
• To Read The Dispossessed
• A Fictional Architecture That Manages Only with Great Difficulty Not Once to Mention Harlan Ellison
• Appendixes: Midcentury
• Letter to a Critic •Index
