Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1 Lost in space -- 2 The way it wasn't: alternative histories, contingent geographies -- 3 Geography's conquest of history in The Diamond Age -- 4 Space, technology and Neal Stephensbn's science fiction -- 5 Geographies of power and social relations in Marge Piercy's He, She and It -- 6 The subjectivity of the near future: geographical imaginings in the work of J. G. Ballard -- 7 Tuning the self: city space and SF horror movies -- 8 Science fiction and cinema: the hysterical materialism of pataphysical space -- 9 An invention without a future, a solution without a problem: motor pirates, time machines and drunkenness on the screen -- 10 What we can say about nature: familiar geographies, science fiction and popular physics -- 11 Murray Bookchin on Mars! The production of nature in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy -- 12 In the belly of the monster: Frankenstein, food, factishes and fiction -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.