| Introduction: Science Fiction at the Crossroads of Two Cultures |
by Gary Westfahl |
| I. Overviews: Science Fiction in the Context of Two Cultures |
| 1. Science Fiction and the Two Cultures: Reflections after the Snow-Leavis Controversy |
by Carl Freedman |
| 2. Science Fiction, Mediating Agent between C. P. Snow's Two Cultures: A Historical Interpretation |
by Bradford Lyau |
| 3. Fighting Out of Context: Culture Wars Within and Without Science Fiction from Snow to Sokal |
by Howard V. Hendrix |
| 4. A Tale of Two Cultures: Science Studies and Science Fiction |
by Stephen Potts |
| 5. The Rich and the Poor: Science Fiction and the Other Two Cultures |
by Gary Westfahl |
| 6. The Science of Fiction and the Fiction of Science: A Storytelling Animal in an Inhospitable World |
by Frank McConnell |
| 7. Dimorphs and Doubles: J. D. Bernal's "Two Cultures" and the Transhuman Promise |
by George Slusser |
| II. Case Studies: Science Fiction as an Expression of Two Cultures |
| 8. Discontinuity: Spaceships at the Abyss |
by Carol MacKay and Kirk Hampton |
| 9. Gregory Benford's Against Infinity, and the Literary, Historical, and Geometric Formation of the Encyclopedic Circle of Knowledge |
by Pekka Kuusisto |
| 10. Utopia and Utopianism in the Life, Work, and Thought of H. G. Wells |
by John S. Partington |
| 11. The Alien Eye: Imperialism and Ideology in H. G. Wells's The First Men in the Moon |
by Gareth Davies-Morris |
| 12. Killer Robots, Laws of Robotics, and Pernicious Humans |
by George Atkins |
| 13. Philip K. Dick's Conversion Narrative |
by Noah Mass |
| 14. The Terror of Nature Not Understood: Science, Mysticism, and the Unknowable in Don DeLillo's Ratner's Star |
by Jake Jakaitis |
| 15. When the Caesura Ceases: Two Romanian Authors Gauge the Place of Writers in the Age of Computers |
by Sharon D. King |
| 16. A Creature of Double Vision |
by Gregory Benford |
| Afterword: Science Fiction and the Playing Fields of Eaton |
by Gary Westfahl |
| A Bibliography of Works Related to Science Fiction and the Two Cultures |
| A Bibliography of Other Works Cited in the TextText |
| Index |
