Monographs

The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction (2008)

Mutopia: Science Fiction and Fantastic Knowledge (2022)

Science Fiction East of Berlin

Stanislaw Lem — “Metafantasia: The Possibilities of Science Fiction” (1981) [translation]

Kafka and Science Fiction (1984)

Stanislaw Lem — “Metafuturology” (1986) [translation]

The Book Is the Alien: On Certain and Uncertain Readings of Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris (1985)

Toward the Last Fairy Tale: On the Fairy-Tale Paradigm in the Strugatskys’ Science Fiction, 1963-1972 (1986)

Twenty-Two Answers and Two Postscripts: An Interview with Stanislaw Lem (1986)

Stanislaw Lem — “On Stapledon’s Last and First Men” (1986) [translation]

Stanislaw Lem — “On Stapledon’s Star Maker” (1987) [translation]

Zamyatin and the Strugatskys: The Representation of Freedom in We and The Snail on the Slope (1988)

Kelvin’s  Resolve and the Death of Rheya, or The Dialectics of Extraterrestrialism (1990) [unpublished paper]

Modeling the Chaosphere: Stanislaw Lem’s Alien Communications (1991)

Alien Elements: A Bachelardian Reading of Lem (2000) [unpublished paper]

Science Fiction and the Thaw (2004)

Tatiana Chernyshova — “Science Fiction and Myth Creation in our Age” (2004) [translation]

Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006) (2006)

The Summa and the Fiction (2013)

The Solaris Problem: Anomalies in Science and Science Fiction (2015) [unpublished paper]

Cyberpunk

Cyberpunk and Neuromanticism (1988)

The Sentimental Futurist: Cybernetics and Art in William Gibson’s Neuromancer (1992)

Antimancer: Cybernetics and Art in William Gibson’s Count Zero (1995)

Science Fiction and Music

“Help Me!” A Short History of Science Fiction Music (2009) [unpublished paper]

Music and SF: A Theory (2002) [unpublished paper]

Science Fiction Theory

Editorial Introduction: Postmodernism’s SF/SF’s Postmodernism (1981)

Cultural Xenology and Ethnographic Allegory: Science Fiction, Cultural Theory and Fantastic Modeling (1995) [unpublished paper]

Marxist theory and science fiction (2003)

Science Fiction/Criticism (2005)

Science Fiction and Technoscientific Empire (2009)

What is estranged in science-fiction animation? (2015)

Science Fiction at Large

Pilgrims in Pandemonium: Philip K. Dick and the Critics (1992)

What’s the matter with Lynch’s Dune? Turn off the sound! (2001) [unpublished paper]

Coding out the USA: Mamoru Oshii’s Avalon (2002)

Lost Child: Notes on Gwyneth Jones’s White Queen (2004)

Jean Baudrillard, 1929-2007 (2007)

SF/Porn: The Case for The Gas (2009)

The Impossibility of Ian Watson’s Miracle Visitors (2014)

Possible Mountains and Rivers: The Zen Realism of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Three Californias (2012)

Alien Earth: Science Fiction, Posthumanism, and The Planet (2012) [unpublished paper]

The Eye of Gort (2014)

This Fractal, Alien World: SF in the Global Moment (2014) [unpublished paper]

Aliens, Animals, and the Emergence of the Giant Vampire Squid (2014-2016) [unpublished paper]

Science Fiction and the Imperial Audience (2015)

Reviews

The Wife’s Story (Anne Dick, Search for Philip K. Dick, 1928-1982. A Memoir and Biography of the Science Fiction Writer) (1997)

The Cyborg and the Kitchen Sink; Or, the Salvation Story of No Salvation Story (Donna J. Haraway, Modest_Witness@Second_ Millenium.FemaleMan© _Meets_OncoMouse™: Feminism and Technoscience) (1998)

Till We Have Interfaces (N. Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics) (1999)

The Global Province (James Gunn, Around the World: The Road to Science Fiction, Volume 6; Franz Rottensteiner, ed. View from Another Shore: European Science Fiction) (1999)

Pre2K Post2K (Margaret Morse, Virtualities: Television, Media Art, and Cyberculture; Arthur Kroker and Marilouise Kroker, ed. Digital Delirium; Joan Broadhurst Dixon and Eric Cassidy, ed.  Virtual Futures: Cyberotics, Technology and Post-Human Pragmatism) (2001)

Discretion and Common Sense (Gwyneth Jones, Deconstructing the Starships: Science, Fiction and Reality) (2001)

Lucid Dreams, or Flightless Birds on Rooftops? (China Miéville, ed.) “Symposium: Marxism and Fantasy”: Historical Materialism. Research in Critical Marxist Theory) (2003)

Who Framed Science Fiction? (Peter Stockwell, The Poetics of Science Fiction) (2004)

Interplanetary Soundclash (Philip Hayward, Off the Planet: Music, Sound and Science Fiction Cinema) (2005)

Escaping Star Trek (Alan N. Shapiro, Star Trek: Technologies of Disappearance) (2005)

Tante Margaret Just Wants to Have Fun ( Margaret Atwood, In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination) (2010)

DEFA’s floating islands (The DEFA Sci-Fi Collection. Silent Star; Eolomea; In the Dust of the Stars) (2010)

After Species Meet (Donna Haraway, When Species Meet) (2010)

Sound is the New Light (William Whittington, Sound Design and Science Fiction) (2011)

Of Enigmas and Xenoencyclopedias (Richard Saint-Gelais, L’Empire du pseudo: Modernités de la science-fiction and Irène Langlet, La science-fiction: Lecture et poétique d’un genre littéraire) (2012)

A Diamond in the Rough, Not the Philosopher’s Stone (Seo-Young Chu, Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation) (2012)

The Science Fictionalization of Linguistic Invention (Michael Adams, From Elvish to Klingon. Exploring Invented Languages;  Stephen D. Rogers, A Dictionary of Made-Up Languages. From Adûnaic to Elvish, Zaum to Klingon – The Anwa (Real) Origins of Invented Lexicons) (2013)

Eyes/Open (Jean-Christophe Bailly, The Animal Side) (2014)