Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A False Dichotomy -- 1 The Human/Robot Debate -- 2 Human Spaceflight as Utopia -- 3 Promoting the Human Dimension -- 4 Robotic Spaceflight in Popular Culture -- 5 The New Space Race -- 6 Interstellar Flight and the Human Future in Space -- 7 Homo sapiens, Transhumanism, and the Postbiological Universe -- 8 An Alternative Paradigm? -- Appendix: Inadequate Words -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.