What it is we do when we read science fiction

INTRODUCTION

iii - Acknowledgements

v - Introducing Paul Kincaid - by David Langford

I : THEORY

3 - What it is we do when we read Science Fiction

13 - On the Origins of Genre

II : PRACTICE

25 - Anatomising Science Fiction

29 - How Hard is SF?

41 - The New Hard Men of SF

49 - Mistah Kurtz, He Dead

61 - The North-South Continuum

75 - A Year at its Best?

III : CHRISTOPHER PRIEST

89 - Blank pages: Islands and Identity in the Fiction of Christopher Priest

107 - Mirrors, Doubles, Twins

129 - "The Discharge"

133 - 10/10 May/May: Singling Out the Duplication in The Separation

IV : BRITAIN ...

141 - Islomania? Insularity?: The Myth of the Island in British Science Fiction

149 - Apres moi . . .

153 - Elegy

157 - Touching the Earth

165 - Inside Chris Evans

173 - The Furies

189 - Maps of a Curious Sort: Landscape in the Fiction of Keith Roberts

197 - In the Pickle Jar: Appleseed or Mimesis

V : ... AND THE WORLD

207 - Secret Maps

237 - Exhibits

255 - Entering the Labyrinth

267 - Emptiness Gets Into You

273 - Forever Haldeman

277 - A Mode of Head-on Collision: George Turner's Critical Relationship with Science Fiction

291 - Heterotopic Borders

VI : GENE WOLFE

297 - Images of the Fall

307 - We Joke for Gods

321 - False Dog

325 - Attending Daedalus

VII : 1 APRIL 1984

331 - By-ways of the Shining Path

VIII : NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

335 - Notes

339 - Sources

343 - Bibliography

IX : INDEX

351 - Index - compiled by Leigh Kennedy Priest