Acknowledgements VII
Notes on Contributors VIII
Introduction 1
Meyrav Koren-Kuik and Yael Maurer
Part 1
The City and the Body
Urban Twinship: The Body of the Futuristic City in Jeff VanderMeer’s Veniss Underground 13
Inbar Kaminsky
Past Future Cityscapes: Narratives of the Post-Human in Post-Urban Environments 28
Eduardo Barros-Grela
Architecture of Punishment: Dystopian Cities Marking the Body 49
Elsa Bouet
Part 2
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” 69
Rosalind Fursland
Wires are the New Filth: The Rebirth of Dickens’ London in Cyberspace 87
Keith Daniel Harris
City of Lights No More: Dystopian Paris in French Science Fiction 102
Henri-Simon Blanc-Hoang
Imola Bülgözdi
Part 3
Cities of Imagination
“Divided Against Itself”: Dual Urban Chronotopes 139
Elana Gomel
Experiencing the Cityscapes and Rural Landscapes as ‘Citizens’ of The Hunger Games Storyworld 151
Natalie Krikowa
‘Final Men’, Racialised Fears & the Control of Monstrous Cityscapes in Post-Apocalyptic Hollywood Films 168
Glen Donnar
Imagination Reloaded: Transfiguring Urban Space into Virtual Space in the tv Series Caprica 186
Torsten Caeners
The Dame Wore Skyscrapers: The Science-fictional City as a Detective Story 206
Shawn Edrei
Index 219