Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: THE DAWN OF SOUND DESIGN -- Chapter 1. Sound Design: Origins and Influences -- Chapter 2. Music and Speculation in 2001: A Space Odyssey -- PART II: SOUND MONTAGE -- Chapter 3. The Convergence of Hollywood and New Wave Science Fiction -- Chapter 4. Suggestive Fragments in THX 1138 -- PART III: SOUND DESIGNING -- Chapter 5. From Sound Capture to Construction: Building the Lexicon of Sound Designs for Star Wars -- Chapter 6. Surround Sound and Science Fiction -- PART IV: SOUND EFFECTS -- Chapter 7. Genre Splicing: Horror and Science Fiction -- Chapter 8. Alien: Audio-biomechanics -- PART V: VOICE DESIGN -- Chapter 9. Blade Runners: A Crisis in Voicing Authority, Identity, and Spectacle -- PART VI: FINAL DESIGN -- Chapter 10. Sound Mixing and Sound Design in Science Fiction Cinema: A Mixed Paradox -- Chapter 11. Mixing Man and Machine in Terminator 2: Judgment Day -- PART VII: CONCLUSION: A SOUNDING OF THE FUTURE -- Chapter 12. What Is The Matrix? Sound Design in a Digital World -- Appendix: Overview of the General Processes of Sound Production -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index.