Introduction -- The science in science fiction. the sound (and look) of science -- "Bad" science -- Science studies and science fiction -- Mad science and the modern subject -- Women in the lab -- Science fiction, spectacle and self-reflexivity. Attractions -- Spectacle, special effects and affect -- The sublime -- The grotesque -- Camp -- Inanimating the animate, animating the inanimate -- Surveillance, interpellation, reification, death -- Science fiction, colonialism and globalisation. Science fiction's colonial imaginary -- Post-imperial melancholy and anti-imperialism at home -- Neo-liberal empire.

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