Ziauddin Sardar is a London-based scholar, award-winning writer, cultural critic and intellectual specialising in Muslim thought, futures studies and science and cultural relations. He is the author of How Do You Know?: Reading Ziauddin Sardar on Islam, Science and Cultural Relations (Pluto, 2006), Aliens R Us: The Other in Science Fiction Cinema (Pluto, 2002) and Postmodernism and the Other (Pluto, 1997).Sean Cubitt is Professor of Film and Television and Joint Head of the Media and Communication Department at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is on the editorial boards of a number of journals including Screen, Cultural Politics, Animation and International Journal of Cultural Politics. He is the co-editor of Aliens R Us: The Other in Science Fiction Cinema (Pluto, 2002).

• Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: Aliens R Us by Ziauddin Sardar1. Delicatessen: Eco-Apocalypse in the New French Science Fiction Cinema by Sean Cubitt2. Rewriting the ‘American Dream’: Postmodernism and Otherness in Independence Day by Jan Mair3. Displacements of Gender and Race in Space: Above and Beyond by Nickianne Moody4. Star Trek: First Contact: The Hybrid The Whore and the Machine by Christine Warthiem 5. Japanese Animation and Techno-Orientalism by Toshiya Ueno6. Wicked Cities: The Other in Hong Kong Science Fiction by Gregory B. Lee and Sunny Lam7. Saying ‘Yours’ and ‘Mine’ in Deep Space Nine by Kirk W Junker and Robert Duffy8. False and Double Consciousness: Race Virtual Reality and the Assimilation of Hong Kong Cinema in The Matrix by Peter X Feng9. Till the End of the World: Wenders and Eurocentric Futures by Dimitris EleftheriotisIndex

'A left-wing reader on the nature of science fiction. A useful jumping off point into an examination of the discourse that underlines the genre'