Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the cover -- Series editors' preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I -- Chapter 1 Beyond the Star Trek phenomenon -- THE MAKING OF STAR TREK -- THE STAR TREK CAMPAIGN -- FROM 'STAR TREK LIVES!' TO 'GET A LIFE!' -- STAR FLEET ACADEMY -- RETHINKING THE SCIENCE FICTION AUDIENCE -- TOWARDS A NEW APPROACH -- Chapter 2 Positioning the SF audience -- SF CHARACTERIZATION, INSTRUMENTAL REASON AND AUDIENCES -- SCIENCE FICTION AS SOCIAL ORDER AND MYTH -- SCIENCE FICTION AS NARRATIVE -- INSTRUMENTAL RATIONALISM AND THE IDEOLOGY OF SCIENTISM -- FEMINIST SCIENCE FICTION: 'PARTIAL UTOPIAS' -- TEXTUAL POACHERS: THE STAR TREK AUDIENCE -- IDEOLOGY AS UTOPIA: 'THE OBJECTIVELY AMBIGUOUS TEXT' -- FEMINIST READING POSITIONS -- Chapter 3 The changing audiences of science fiction -- DIACHRONIC ANALYSES: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SF AUDIENCE -- SYNCHRONIC ANALYSES: THE SUBGENRES OF SCIENCE FICTION -- Television SF: positioning different audiences -- 'Para'-SF fans -- 'Literary' SF fans -- Part II -- Chapter 4 Throwing a little bit of poison into future generations' -- THE DOCTOR WHO AUDIENCE PROJECT -- UNIVERSITY STUDENTS (MALE THIRD-YEAR SOCIOLOGY STUDENTS, UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES) -- UNIVERSITY STUDENTS (MALE STAFF/STUDENTS, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES) -- Chapter 5 'It's meant to be fantasy' -- GENRE COMPETENCES: DISCOURSES OF 'REAL LIFE' AND 'FANTASY' (YEAR 10, GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL) -- 'HE'S GOT DEEP POCKETS': SCIENCE FICTIONS OF IMPACT AND IDEAS (YEAR 10, SYDNEY MIXED HIGH SCHOOL) -- TEENAGERS AND VIOLENCE: A QUANTITATIVE APPROACH -- Chapter 6 'But why is Doctor Who so attractive?' -- IDEOLOGICAL DECODING/AUDIENCE PLEASURE: NEGOTIATING CONTRADICTIONS -- Chapter 7 'But he's a Time Lord! He's a Time Lord!' -- PREFERRED READING: TEXT, AUDIENCE OR ANALYST?.

SCIENCE FICTION AUDIENCES: READING FORMATION AND FANS -- UNSW GENERAL STUDIES AUDIENCE GROUP: SITUATIONAL CONTEXT -- UNSW GENERAL STUDIES AUDIENCE GROUP: INTER-TEXTUAL CONTEXT -- Interviewer authority: content, relations and speaking positions -- Situational context -- Inter-textual context -- SF FANS' CONVENTION: SITUATIONAL CONTEXT -- SF FANS' CONVENTIONS: INTER-TEXTUAL CONTEXT -- FANS, FOLLOWERS AND READING FORMATION -- Chapter 8 'We're only a speck in the ocean' -- GOLDEN AGES AND THE 'UNFORGIVABLE' -- CONTINUITY: TEXTUAL EXEGESIS AND THE FANS' POWER TO GLOSS -- PROGRAMME STRUCTURE: 'ARGUING WITH THE PRODUCER' -- BELIEVABLE CHARACTERS: 'IDENTIFICATION ITSELF' -- NARRATIVE CLOSURE: 'WHAT SORT OF AUDIENCE ARE THEY AIMING FOR?' -- 'TOM BAKER IS DOCTOR WHO': THE FANS AND 'MEDIA HYPE' -- 'THE MONSTER OF PELADON' AND POLITICS -- Speaking as fans -- Speaking as individuals -- CONCLUSION -- Part III -- Chapter 9 'Infinite diversity in infinite combinations' -- STAR TREK AND SCIENCE FICTION -- Technological utopianism -- Social utopianism -- Space opera -- STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION -- 'RODDENBERRY THE PHILOSOPHER' -- STAR TREK AND POPULAR MEMORY -- Chapter 10 'At other times, like females' -- WRITING THE ROMANCE, REWRITING STAR TREK -- 'AN ARTIFICIALLY IMPOSED CASE OF FOOLISHNESS': JANE LAND'S FAN NOVELS -- Chapter 11 'How many Starfleet officers does it take to change a lightbulb?' -- MAPPING THE GENRE -- FACING THE FUTURE -- TINKERS AND THINKERS -- 'THEY KEEP GETTING THEIR NEUTRINOS WRONG!' -- A COMPUTATIONAL AESTHETIC -- AUTONOMOUS ANDROIDS -- DWEEBS, NERDS AND BRATS -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 12 'Out of the closet and into the universe' -- INTERVENTION ANALYSIS AND FAN CULTURE -- CHILDREN OF URANUS -- WHERE NO [GAY] MAN HAS GONE BEFORE -- A HUMAN FAILING -- Q FOR QUEER? -- RECONSIDERING RESISTANT READING -- Notes -- Index.