Science fiction as a literary movement / William Atheling -- The literature of human possibility / Ben Bova -- Science fiction as classic romance / Janice Antczak -- The potential for social criticism / Robert Bloch -- The feminist struggle in science fiction / Debra Benita Shaw -- Verne and Wells: the two fathers of modern science fiction / Kingsley Amis -- An insider remembers the pulp era -- Jack Williamson -- New worlds and the new wave / Brian W. Aldiss with David Wingrove -- A cyberpunk manifesto / Bruce Sterling -- Negative utopias and Orwell's dark vision / Erich Fromm -- The paradoxes of time travel / Paul A. Carter -- Understanding the alien / Gregory Benford -- The robot as symbol / Sam Moskowitz -- Religious and spiritual aspects of science fiction / Tom Woodman -- Frankenstein and the female voice in science fiction / Jane Donawerth -- Asimov and the morality of artificial intelligence / Patricia S. Warrick -- The nature of reality / Philip K. Dick -- An un-credible genre / Michel Butor -- Good and bad mythmaking / Ursula K. Le Guin.