Introduction : imperialism, the third world, and postcolonial science fiction / Ericka Hoagland and Reema Sarwal -- Re-inventing/alternate history. Postcolonial science fiction : the desert planet / Gerald Gaylard -- History deconstructed : alternative worlds in Steven Barnes's Lion's blood and Zulu heart / Juan F. Elices -- The Calcutta chromosome : a novel of silence, slippage and subversion / Suparno Banerjee -- Organization and the continuum : history in Vandana Singh's "Delhi" / Grant Hamilton -- Forms of protest. The colonial feminine in Pat Murphy's "His vegetable wife" / Diana Pharaoh Francis -- Body markets : the technologies of global capitalism and Manjula Padmanabhan's Harvest / Shital Pravinchandra -- "Smudged, distorted and hidden" : apocalypse as protest in indigenous speculative fiction / Roslyn Weaver -- Fresh representations. Sadhanbabu's Friends : science fiction in Bengal from 1882 to 1974 / Debjani Sengupta -- Critiquing economic and environmental colonization : globalization and science fiction in The moons of Palmares / Judith Leggatt -- Loonies and others in Robert A. Heinlein's The moon is a harsh mistress / Herbert G. Klein -- Science fiction, Hindu nationalism and modernity in India : Bollywood's Koi Mil Gaya / Dominic Alessio and Jessica Langer -- Utopia/Dystopia. The shapes of dystopia : boundaries, hybridity and the politics of power / Jessica Langer -- Narrative and dystopian forms of life in Mexican cyberpunk novel La primera calle de la soledad / Juan Ignacio Muñoz Zapata -- Octavia Butler's Parable of the sower : the third world as topos for a U.S. utopia / Gavin Miller.