Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Meyrav Koren-Kuik and and Yael Maurer -- The City and the Body -- Urban Twinship: The Body of the Futuristic City in Jeff VanderMeer’s Veniss Underground / Inbar Kaminsky -- Past Future Cityscapes: Narratives of the Post-Human in Post-Urban Environments / Eduardo Barros-Grela -- Architecture of Punishment: Dystopian Cities Marking the Body / Elsa Bouet -- Cities of Estrangement -- Time Travel, Dystopia, and the Manhattan Skyscraper in George Allan England’s The Last New Yorkers and Murray Leinster’s “The Runaway Skyscraper” / Rosalind Fursland -- Wires are the New Filth: The Rebirth of Dickens’ London in Cyberspace / Keith Daniel Harris -- City of Lights No More: Dystopian Paris in French Science Fiction / Henri-Simon Blanc-Hoang -- Spatiality in the Cyber-World of William Gibson / Imola Bülgözdi -- Cities of Imagination -- “Divided Against Itself”: Dual Urban Chronotopes / Elana Gomel -- Experiencing the Cityscapes and Rural Landscapes as ‘Citizens’ of The Hunger Games Storyworld / Natalie Krikowa -- ‘Final Men’, Racialised Fears and the Control of Monstrous Cityscapes in Post-Apocalyptic Hollywood Films / Glen Donnar -- Imagination Reloaded: Transfiguring Urban Space into Virtual Space in the tv Series Caprica / Torsten Caeners -- The Dame Wore Skyscrapers: The Science-fictional City as a Detective Story / Shawn Edrei.

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Cityscapes of the Future: Urban Spaces in Science Fiction offers an examination of the central role played by urban spaces in science fictional narratives in various media forms from the literary to the ludic to the cinematic. Our contributors reflect on the ways diverse urban scenarios are central to the narratives’ science fictional imaginary and consider the pivotal roles cityscapes play in underscoring major thematic concerns, such as political struggles, social inequality and other cultural epistemologies. The chapters in the collection are divided into three sections examining the city and the body, cities of estrangement, and cities of the imagination.

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