1 SYLVIE ROMANOWSKI
Cyrano de Bergerac’s Epistemological Bodies: “Pregnant with a Thousand Definitions” (1998, with an afterword by Ishbel Addyman) 1
2 PAUL K. ALKON
Samuel Madden’s Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1985) 25
3 WILLIAM B. FISCHER
German Theories of Science Fiction: Jean Paul, Kurd Lasswitz, and After (1976) 47
4 JOSH BERNATCHEZ
Monstrosity, Suffering, Subjectivity, and Sympathetic Community in Frankenstein and “The Structure of Torture” (2009) 66
5 ARTHUR B. EVANS
Science Fiction vs. Scientific Fiction in France: From Jules Verne to J.-H. Rosny Aîné (1988) 82
6 I. F. CLARKE
Future-War Fiction: The First Main Phase, 1871–1900 (1997, with an afterword by Margaret Clarke) 96
7 ALLISON DE FREN
The Anatomical Gaze in Tomorrow’s Eve (2009) 124
8 ANDREA BELL
Desde Júpiter: Chile’s Earliest Science-Fiction Novel (1995) 163
9 RACHEL HAYWOOD FERREIRA
The First Wave: Latin American Science Fiction Discovers Its Roots (2007) 177
10 NICHOLAS RUDDICK
“Tell Us All About Little Rosebery”: Topicality and Temporality in H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine (2001) 217
11 KAMILA KINYON
The Phenomenology of Robots: Confrontations with Death in Karel Čapek’s R.U.R. (1999) 240
12 PATRICK A. MCCARTHY
Zamyatin and the Nightmare of Technology (1984) 267
13 GARY WESTFAHL
“The Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe Type of Story”: Hugo Gernsback’s History of Science Fiction (1992) 278
14 WILLIAM J. FANNING, JR.
The Historical Death Ray and Science Fiction in the 1920s and 1930s (2010) 298
15 SUSAN GUBAR
C. L. Moore and the Conventions of Women’s Science Fiction (1980, with an afterword by Veronica Hollinger) 325
16 STANISLAW LEM
On Stapledon’s Star Maker (1987, with an afterword by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.) 342
150 Key Works of Early Science Fiction 353