Introduction / Sarah Lefanu -- 1. Towards an Aesthetic of Science Fiction -- 2. Speculations: The Subjunctivity of Science Fiction -- 3. SF and Technology as Mystification -- 4. Amor Vincit Foeminam: The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction -- 5. On the Fascination of Horror Stories, Including Lovecraft's -- 6. A Boy and His Dog: The Final Solution -- 7. What Can a Heroine Do? or Why Women Can't Write -- 8. Somebody's Trying to Kill Me and I Think It's My Husband: The Modern Gothic -- 9. On Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -- 10. Recent Feminist Utopias -- 11. To Write "Like a Woman": Transformations of Identity in the Work of Willa Cather -- 12. On "The Yellow Wallpaper" -- 13. Is "Smashing" Erotic? -- 14. Letter to Susan Koppelman