Съдържание:
  • Introduction: The concept of mindscape /
  • George E. Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin
  • Nature : laws and surprises /
  • Poul Anderson
  • The survival of myth in science fiction /
  • Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty
  • "The swelling act" : the psychoanalytic geography of fantasy /
  • Ronald J. Heckelman
  • Metaphorical drive, or, Why we're such good liars /
  • David Brin
  • The playing fields of Eden /
  • Frank McConnell
  • Bookscapes : science fiction in the library of Babel /
  • George E. Slusser
  • Belief and other worlds : Ktesias and the founding of "Indian wonders" /
  • James Romm
  • Universal mindscape : the Gaia hypothesis in science fiction /
  • Jack G. Voller
  • Recent feminist utopias : world building and strategies for social change /
  • Peter Fitting
  • Time and vast eternities : landscapes of immortality in Orson Scott Card's fiction /
  • Michael R. Collings
  • Avenues of power : cities as mindscapes of politics /
  • Pascal J. Thomas
  • The two landscapes of J.G. Ballard's Concrete Island /
  • Reinhart Lutz
  • Neuroscience fiction : the Roman a€ synaptic cleft /
  • Joseph D. Miller
  • Islands in the sky : space stations in the universe of science fiction /
  • Gary Westfahl
  • What really happened on Mulberry Street? /
  • Bill Lee
  • Infinity in your back pocket : pocket universes and adjacent worlds /
  • Max P. Belin
  • Landscape and the Romantic dilemma : myth and metaphor in science-fiction narrative /
  • William Lomax
  • "The adjutant" : suggestions for maps in time and space from Greene to Johnson to Lem /
  • Donald M. Hassler
  • The ultimate mindscape : Dante's Paradiso /
  • Jean-Pierre Barricelli
  • Pascal's terror /
  • Gregory Benford
  • The revolutionary mindscape /
  • Gary Kern
  • Suggestions for a typology of mindscapes /
  • David N. Samuelson.