Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction: Learning from Other Worlds -- Part One: Science Fiction and Utopia: Theory and Politics -- Before the Novum: The Prehistory of Science Fiction Criticism -- Revisiting Suvin's Poetics of Science Fiction -- 'Look into the dark': On Dystopia and the Novum -- Science Fiction and Utopia: A Historico-Philosophical Overview -- Society After the Revolution: The Blueprints for the Forthcoming Socialist Society published by the Leaders of the Second International -- Part Two: Science fiction in its Social, Cultural and Philosophical Contexts -- From the Images of Science to Science Fiction -- Estranged Invaders: The War of the Worlds -- 'A part of the … family [?]': John Wyndham's The Midwich Cuckoos as Estranged Autobiography -- Labyrinth, Double and Mask in the Science Fiction of Stanislaw Lem -- 'We're at the start of a new ball game and that's why we're all real nervous': Or, Cloning-Technological Cognition Reflects Estrangement from Women -- 'If I find one good city I will spare the man': Realism and Utopia in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy -- Afterword: With Sober, Estranged Eyes -- Darko Suvin: Checklist of Printed Items that Concern Science Fiction (with Utopian Fiction or Utopianism, and a few Bordering Items) -- Bibliography -- Index.