Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. Definitions -- Critical Theory -- Science Fiction -- 2. Articulations -- Genre, Theory, and Phases of Canon-Formation -- The Critical Dynamic: Science Fiction and Style -- The Critical Dynamic: Science Fiction and the Historical Novel -- The Critical Dynamic: Science Fiction and Utopia -- Science Fiction and the Canon -- 3. Excursuses -- Solaris: Stanisław Lem and the Structure of Cognition -- The Dispossessed: Ursula Le Guin and the Ambiguities of Utopia -- The Two of Them: Joanna Russ and the Violence of Gender -- Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand: Samuel Delany and the Dialectics of Difference -- The Man in the High Castle: Philip K. Dick and the Construction of Realities -- Coda: Critical Theory, Science Fiction, and the Postmodern -- Index.