SciFi in the mind's eye : reading science through science fiction / edited by Margret Grebowicz.

Variant title Sci-fi in the mind's eye
Contents Race through the alpha quadrant : species and destiny on Star Trek / Harvey Cormier -- The island of Dr. Moreau : interpretation of images of race and species / Naomi Zack -- It's in the meat : science, fiction, and the politics of ignorance / Nancy McHugh -- How to do things with ideas / L. Timmel Duchamp -- Pygmalion's legacy : cyborg women in science fiction / Janet Vertesi -- Tepper's republic : feminist separatism and the question of essence / Edrie Sobstyl -- Clone mothers and others : uncanny families / Stephanie S. Turner -- Embodying change : (r)evolutionary theories of an alien synthesis / Tess Williams -- Identity and SF : story as science and fiction / Nicola Griffith -- Sciencepunk : the influence of informed science fiction on virtual reality research / Jeremy N. Bailenson ... [et al.] -- Fictitious contagions : computer viruses in the science fiction of the 1970s / Jussi Parikka -- After the end of the world : critiques of technology in post-apocalypse literature / Andrew Pavelich -- Ethics, science, and science fiction / Nancy Kress -- Modest witnesses? feminist stories of science in fiction and theory / Helen Merrick -- Cracking the code : genomics in documented fantasies and fantastic documentaries / Marina Levina -- Knowing, being, and the reality police : science fiction as science studies / Dennis Desroches -- Between garlic and eternity : fragments from an interview with Stanisław Lem / Ewa Lipska -- Cognitive constraints on imagining other worlds / E. Thomas Lawson -- After the space age : science, fiction, and possibility / Martin Parker -- Learning from Ender's game : childhood, education, and war / Margret Grebowicz.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2007021257
ISBN9780812696301 (trade pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0812696301 (trade pbk. : alk. paper)