Carl Kears is Lecturer in Medieval Literature at King's College London.

• Medieval Science Fiction: An Impossible Fantasy?Is Beowulf Science Fiction?The Future is a Foreign Country: The Legend of the Seven Sleepers and the Anglo-Saxon Sense of the PastUntimely Travel: Living and Dying in Connie Willis's Doomsday Book"On Second Thought, Let's Not Go to Camelot... `Tis a Silly Space": Star Trek and the Inconsequence of SF Medievalism"Those two green children which Nubrigensis speaks of in his time, that fell from heavem", or the Origins of Science FictionAliens and Anglo-Saxons in Edwin Morgan's "The First Men on Mercury"The Riddle of Medieval TechnologyDreams of War, Dreams of Dragons' Fire: Conrad Kyeser's BellefortisCourtly Love on Mars: E.R. Burroughs and the Medieval Lineage of Planetary RomanceThe Medieval Dying EarthCatapunk: Toward a Medieval Aesthetic of Science FictionMedieval Cosmology and World BuildingDiscovering Eifelheim

The choice to bring in scientific, historic, and philosophical texts as well as literary works is a strength of this anthology, giving it a breadth that is sometimes lacking in academic anthologies even in a diverse field like medieval studies. Paz and Kears have put together an excellent, interdisciplinary volume that emphasizes the wide range of approaches we can take as the study of medievalism continues to develop.

Carl Kears is Lecturer in Medieval Literature at King's College London.

• Medieval Science Fiction: An Impossible Fantasy?Is Beowulf Science Fiction?The Future is a Foreign Country: The Legend of the Seven Sleepers and the Anglo-Saxon Sense of the PastUntimely Travel: Living and Dying in Connie Willis's Doomsday Book"On Second Thought, Let's Not Go to Camelot... `Tis a Silly Space": Star Trek and the Inconsequence of SF Medievalism"Those two green children which Nubrigensis speaks of in his time, that fell from heavem", or the Origins of Science FictionAliens and Anglo-Saxons in Edwin Morgan's "The First Men on Mercury"The Riddle of Medieval TechnologyDreams of War, Dreams of Dragons' Fire: Conrad Kyeser's BellefortisCourtly Love on Mars: E.R. Burroughs and the Medieval Lineage of Planetary RomanceThe Medieval Dying EarthCatapunk: Toward a Medieval Aesthetic of Science FictionMedieval Cosmology and World BuildingDiscovering Eifelheim

The choice to bring in scientific, historic, and philosophical texts as well as literary works is a strength of this anthology, giving it a breadth that is sometimes lacking in academic anthologies even in a diverse field like medieval studies. Paz and Kears have put together an excellent, interdisciplinary volume that emphasizes the wide range of approaches we can take as the study of medievalism continues to develop.

Carl Kears is Lecturer in Medieval Literature at King's College London.

• Medieval Science Fiction: An Impossible Fantasy?Is Beowulf Science Fiction?The Future is a Foreign Country: The Legend of the Seven Sleepers and the Anglo-Saxon Sense of the PastUntimely Travel: Living and Dying in Connie Willis's Doomsday Book"On Second Thought, Let's Not Go to Camelot... `Tis a Silly Space": Star Trek and the Inconsequence of SF Medievalism"Those two green children which Nubrigensis speaks of in his time, that fell from heavem", or the Origins of Science FictionAliens and Anglo-Saxons in Edwin Morgan's "The First Men on Mercury"The Riddle of Medieval TechnologyDreams of War, Dreams of Dragons' Fire: Conrad Kyeser's BellefortisCourtly Love on Mars: E.R. Burroughs and the Medieval Lineage of Planetary RomanceThe Medieval Dying EarthCatapunk: Toward a Medieval Aesthetic of Science FictionMedieval Cosmology and World BuildingDiscovering Eifelheim

The choice to bring in scientific, historic, and philosophical texts as well as literary works is a strength of this anthology, giving it a breadth that is sometimes lacking in academic anthologies even in a diverse field like medieval studies. Paz and Kears have put together an excellent, interdisciplinary volume that emphasizes the wide range of approaches we can take as the study of medievalism continues to develop.