Table of Contents

• Speaking Science Fiction: Introduction – Brian W. Aldiss
• Who Speaks Science Fiction? – Andy Sawyer
• Science Fiction Dialogues – David Seed
• Speaking of Homeplace, Speaking from Someplace – Candas Jane Dorsey
• Speaking Science Fiction – Out of Anxiety? – Josef Nesvadba
• Science Fiction as Language: Postmodern and Mainstream: Some Reflections – José Manuel Mota
• ‘Fantastic Dialogues’: Critical Stories about Feminism and Science Fiction – Helen Merrick
• Vicissitudes of the Voice, Speaking Science Fiction – Roger Luckhurst
• ‘A Language of the Future’: Discursive Constructions of the Subject in A Clockwork Orange and Random Acts of Senseless Violence – Veronica Hollinger
• Speaking the Body: The Embodiment of ‘Feminist’ Cyberpunk – Bronwen Calvert and Sue Walsh
• Bodies that Speak Science Fiction: Stelarc – Performance Artist ‘Becoming Posthuman’ – Ross Farnell
• Science Fiction and the Gender of Knowledge – Brian Attebery
• Corporatism and the Corporate Ethos in Robert Heinlein’s ‘The Roads Must Roll’ – Farah Mendlesohn
• Convention and Displacement: Narrator, Narratee, and Virtual Reader in Science Fiction – Danièle Chatelain and George Slusser
• Aphasia and Mother Tongue: Themes of Language Creation and Silence in Women’s Science Fiction – Nickianne Moody
• ‘My Particular Virus’: (Re-)Reading Jack Womack’s Dryco Chronicles – Andrew M. Butler
• Aliens in the Fourth Dimension – Gwyneth Jones
• Freefall in Inner Space: From Crash to Crash Technology – Simon Sellars
• Notes on Contributors
• Index

About the Author

David Seed is Professor of English at the University of Liverpool.