TABLE OF CONTENTS
Guardians of the Galaxy: Is Space Full of Extraterrestrials?
Arrival: How Do Humans Compare with Aliens?
How Did Science Fiction Put Men on the Moon?
Should Science Make a Real-Life Jurassic World?
Interdimensional Rick and Morty: Do Parallel Worlds Exist?
The War of the Worlds: How Did Science Fiction Convince Us Aliens Would Invade?
Avatar: Are There Other Earths in Space?
Battlestar Galactica and Star Trek: Why Are Wars in Space So Wrong?
The Martian: When Will We Colonize Space?
Passengers: Will Space Tourism Ever Please Jennifer Lawrence?
Back to the Future: Will Time Travel Ever Be Possible?
Interstellar: How Does Time Work as a Dimension?
Looper: Will We Ever Build a Time Machine?
2001: A Space Odyssey: Is There Evidence of Guided Evolution in Human History?
What’s the History of Science Fiction in Seven Objects?
Mad Max: Is Society Running Down into Chaos?
The Minority Report and The Matrix: Will We Ever Develop Precognition?
Lord of Light: How Does Science Fiction Cheat Death?
Apocalypse Now: In What Six Ways Does Science Fiction See the End of Our World?
Man in the High Castle: What Does Science Fiction Say about History?
Battle of New York: How Did Science Fiction Invent the Nuke?
Is George Orwell’s 1984 Becoming a Reality?
When Will We Be Able to Boast Blade Runner-Like Flying Cars?
Total Recall: When Will We Vacation in Cyberspace?
Transformers: Age of Extinction: Will Robots Replace Humans?
Avengers: Age of Ultron: When Will Machine Intelligence Come of Age?
Jacking In: Will the Future Be Like Ready Player One?
The Internet: Will Humans Tire of Mere Reality?
Transformers: Dark of the Moon: How Did Science Fiction Invent the Rocket?
Dr. Strangelove: From Reagan’s Star Wars to Trump’s Space Force
Gods and Monsters: Will Humans Evolve Superpowers?
Hitman: Can Genetic Engineering Produce Supersoldiers?
Professor Charles Xavier: Could Future Humans Evolve Psychic Powers?
The Island: Could Cloning End in Organ-Harvesting Farms?
Blade Runner 2049: When Will We Engineer Human Look-alikes?
X-Men: Will There Be Mutant Humans in the Future?
Brave New World: Will Eugenics Be Used on Human Populations in the Future?
Orphan Black: What Does the Future Hold for Human Cloning?
Black Mirror and Altered Carbon: When Will Human Consciousness Slip Its Skin?
The Amazing Spider-Man: Why Is the World Hung Up on the Idea of a Superserum?