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Index
Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Foreword Introduction Literature
Kepler’s Proto–Science Fiction Manuscript Somnium and Its Legal Consequences How Jules Verne’s Worst Rejection Letter Shaped Science Fiction . . . for 150 Years Jane Webb Loudon’s The Mummy!: A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century Early Feminist Utopias, from Gilman’s Herland to Rokeya’s Sultana’s Dream The “Timeless Green Kingdoms” of George MacDonald Robert W. Chambers, Lesser-Known Father of Weird Fiction The Inklings: A Friendship that Changed Fantastic Literature Forever Henry Dumas’s Foundational Afrofuturism The Author of the Narnia Books Worked on a Mega-Creepy Time Travel Story . . . Probably The Weird World of Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast The New Wave and New-Metal Men: The Almost-Forgotten Brilliance of David R. Bunch The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe Harlan Ellison’s Legendary Lost Anthology The Otherworldly Visions of Philip K. Dick The Empress of the Sensual: Kathy Acker On Viriconium: Some Notes Toward an Introduction The Salvage Yard: Real-Life Experiences Revisited in Science Fiction The Dark Fairy Tales of Angela Carter Funny Fantasy’s Myth Conceptions It’s a Man’s, Man’s, Man’s Apocalypse Foreword to John Shirley’s City Come a-Walkin’ An Interview with John Shirley An Interview with Thomas Olde Heuvelt An Interview with Karen Joy Fowler
Film and Television
Le Voyage dans la Lune, The First Science-Fiction Film Ever Made Metropolis: The Long Shadow of the Never Seen THX 1138: A Decidedly Un-Lucas-Like Production The Enduring Creations of Ralph McQuarrie The Death Star’s Architect: Concept Artist John Berkey Star Wars vs. Battlestar Galactica: The Legal Battle Over Space Opera’s Look “The Spice Must Flow”: Iterations of Dune “The Tourist”: The Alien Sex Film Noir We Deserve The Unicorn-Like Creations of Moebius, Concept Artist How WarGames Changed American Military Policy The Alien III(s) That Might Have Been Behold, the Science-Fiction Cosmic Horror of Phase IV! A Boy and His Goblin: E.T.’s Creepy Origin Story The Overlooked Genius of Space Island One The (Very) Secret Adventures of Jules Verne James Cameron’s Explorations of the Watery Depths On-Screen and in Real Life
Architecture
Hugh Ferriss: Draftsman, Theorist, Gotham Visionary Dreams in the Desert: The Utopian Vision of Paolo Soleri Reality Ahead of Schedule: The Designs of Syd Mead
Art and Design
Weird Tales Regular, Pulp Illustrator Virgil Finlay The Surrealist Stylings of Richard M. Powers The Dreamy Atmospheres of Painter Paul Lehr Space and Science-Fiction Artist David A. Hardy Psychedelic Master Bob Pepper A New Realism: Contemporary Cover Artist Michael Whelan On Fantasy Maps
Music
Science-Fiction Storytelling in the 1960s and ’70s, Set to Music Astro Black The Who’s Lifelong Search for the “One Note” Sweet Bye and Bye and Speculative Fiction in Musical Theatre X-Ray Spex, Poly Styrene, and Punk Rock Science Fiction Weezer’s Songs from the Black Hole Speculative Music of the New Millennium The Timeless Brilliance of Deltron 3030 The Science-Fiction Soundscapes of Porcupine Tree Metropolis Meets Afrofuturism: The Genius of Janelle Monáe
Fashion
Plenty of Pockets: Fashion in Feminist Utopian SFF The Fashion Futurism of Elizabeth Hawes and Rudi Gernreich David Bowie’s Queer Glam Futuristic Fashion Textile Arts Are Worldbuilding, Too Savage Beauty: Alexander McQueen
Fandom and Pop Culture
The Surreal Potential of the World’s Most Mysterious Manuscript Celebrity Robots of the Great Depression The Historical and Literary Origins of Assassin’s Creed Jack Kirby, the King of Comics Valérian, the Popular French Comic Series that Inspired a Generation Beyond D&D: Lesser-Known Fantasy Role-Playing Games Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play: A Grim World of Perilous Adventure Kentaro Miura, Grandmaster of Grimdark The Ambitions of BioForge The Massive Artificial Landscape of Tsutomu Nihei’s Blame! Raëlism: The Space-Age Message of the Elohim CyberCity: Hackers, Virtual Reality, and the Games of War On the Internet, No One Knows You Aren’t a (Gay) Wizard: An Ode to Fan Fiction The Time of the Mellon Chronicles An Interview with Hugh Howey
Contributor Biographies Sources and Credits Index of Searchable Terms Acknowledgments
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