Science Fiction and the Prediction of the Future: Essays on Foresight and Fallacy edited by Gary Westfahl, Wong Kin Yuen, and Amy Kit-sze Chan   Introduction: Of Futures Imagined, and Futures Inhabited by Gary Westfahl I. Cosmic Visions 1. Pitfalls of Prophecy: Why Science Fiction So Often Fails to Predict the Future by Gary Westfahl 2. Emotional Dimensions of Transmimetic Fiction: Emotion, Aesthetics, Ethics, and Rhetoric in Tales of Tomorrow's Science, Technology, and Technoscience by Richard McKinney 3. The Internet and the Anagogical Myths of Science Fiction by Kirk Hampton and Carol MacKay 4. Technobodies and the Anxieties of Performance by Veronica Hollinger 5. Places of Alterity in Science Fiction by Richard McKinney II. The Practice of Prophecy 6. Future City Toyko: 1909 and 2009 by Sharalyn Orbaugh 7. Rebooting "A Logic Named Joe": Exploring the Multiple Influences of a Strangely Predictive Mid-1940s Short Story by David Ferro and Eric Swedin 8. Victims of a Globalized, Radicalized, Technologized World, Or, Why the Beatles Needed Help! by Lynne Lundquist 9. "A Journey Beyond the Stars": 2001: A Space Odyssey and the Psychedelic Revolution in 1960s Science Fiction by Rob Latham 10. The Endless Odyssey: The 2001 Saga and Its Inability to Predict Humanity's Future by Gary Westfahl 11. Intercultural and Interface: Kung Fu as Abstract Machine by Wong Kin Yuen 12. Post-Genre Cinemas and Post-Colonial Attitude: Hong Kong Meets Paris by Véronique Flambard-Weisbart 13. Writing, Weaving and Technology by Amy Kit-sze Chan 14. The Technological Contours of Contemporary Science Fiction, Or, The Science Fiction That Science Fiction Doesn't See by Brooks Landon 15. Thinking about the Smart Wireless World by Gregory Benford   A Bibliography of Works Related to Science Fiction and the Prediction of the Future   A Bibliography of Other Primary and Secondary Sources Cited in the Text   Index