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The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of
How Science Fiction Conquered the World  
By Thomas M. Disch
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction
1 The Right to Lie
2 Poe, Our Embarrassing Ancestor
3 From the Earth to the Moon -- In 101 Years
4 How Science Fiction Defused the Bomb
5 Star Trek, or the Future as a Lifestyle
6 Can Girls Play Too? Feminizing Science Fiction
7 When You Wish Upon a Star -- Science Fiction as a Religion
8 Republicans on Mars -- Science Fiction as Military Strategy
9 The Third World and Other Alien Nations
10The Future of an Illusion -- Science Fiction Beyond the Year 2000
Notes And References
Acknowledgments
Index