From the Book - 1st U.S. ed.
In other worlds : SF and the human imagination. Flying rabbits : denizens of distant space --
Burning bushes : why heaven and hell went to Planet X --
Dire cartographies : the roads to Utopia --
Other deliberations. An introductory note --
Woman on the edge of time by Marge Piercy --
H. Rider Haggard's She --
The queen of quinkdom : The birthday of the world and other stories by Ursula K.Le Guin --
Arguing against ice cream : Enough : staying human in an engineered age by Bill McKibben --
George Orwell : some personal connections --
Ten ways of looking at The island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells --
Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro --
After the last battle : Visa for Avalon by Bryher --
Brave new world by Aldous Huxley --
Of the madness of mad scientists : Jonathan Swift's Grand Academy --
Five tributes. An introductory note --
Cryogenics : a symposium --
Time capsule found on the dead planet --
"The peach women of Aa'a" from The Blind Assassin --
Appendices. An open letter from Margaret Atwood to the Judson Independent School District --
Weird tales covers of the 1930s.