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: Postmodernism and Mainstream: Some Reflections

Jose 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

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

Daniele Chatelain

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