Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Queer Universes
Wendy Gay Pearson, Veronica Hollinger, and Joan Gordon
Part I: Queering the Scene
Alien Cryptographies: The View from Queer
Wendy Gay Pearson
War Machine, Time Machine
Nicole Griffith and Kelley Eskridge
Part II: Un/Doing History
Sextrapolation in New Wave Science Fiction
Rob Latham
Towards a Queer Genealogy of SF
Wendy Gay Pearson
Sexuality and the Statistical Imaginary in Samuel R. Delany’s Trouble on Triton
Guy Davidson
Stray Penetration and Heteronormative Systems Crash: Queering Gibson
Graham J. Murphy
Part III: Disordering Desires
‘Something Like a Fiction’: Speculative Intersections of Sexuality and Technology
Veronica Hollinger
‘And How Many Souls Do You Have?’: Technologies of Perverse Desire and Queer Sex in Science Fiction Erotica
Patricia Melzer
BDSMSF(QF): Sadomasochistic Reading of Québécois Women’s Science Fiction
Sylvie Bérard
Part VI: Embodying New Worlds
‘Happy That It’s Here’: An Interview with Nalo Hopkinson
Nancy Johnston
Queer Nature: Close Encounters with the Alien in Ecofeminist Science Fiction
Helen Merrick
Queering the Coming Race? A Utopian Historical Imperative
De Witt Douglas Kilgore
Works Cited
Index