Contents

Prefaces and Acknowledgments

Ethical Aesthetics, An Introduction by Matthew Cheney

1. About 5,750 Words

2. Critical Methods / Speculative Fiction

3. Quarks

4. Thickening the Plot

5. Faust and Archimedes

6. Alyx

7. Prisoners’ Sleep

8. Letter to the Symposium on “Women In Science Fiction”

9. To Read The Dispossessed

10. A Fictional Architecture That Manages Only with Great Difficulty Not Once to Mention Harlan Ellison

APPENDIXES

A. Midcentury

B. Letter to a Critic

Index