Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction Science Under the Literary Microscope 1
5. Part 1 Background and Context 19
6. 1 Science and Society in Recent Fiction 21
7. 2 From Individual to Collective Knowledge Production: A Brief Nonfiction History 37
8. 3 Between Mad and Mundane: Mixed Stereotypical and Realistic Portrayals of Science in Contemporary Fiction Media 54
9. Part 2 Embedded Science Societal Impacts on Scientific Work and Knowledge
10. 4 Scientists at Risk 77
11. 5 Speculative Fiction and the Significance of Plausibility: Dystopian Science in the Critical Response to Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake 101
12. 6 When the Scientist Is a Woman: Novels and Feminist Science Studies 126
13. 7 Economization of Science: Insights from Science Novels 148
14. Part 3 Cause and Effect? Science and Its Societal Outcomes
15. 8 The Science Fiction of Technological Modernity: Images of Science in Recent Science Fiction 175
16. 9 Unruly Creatures, Obstinate Things: Bio- Objects and Scientific Knowledge Production in Contemporary Science Fiction 198
17. 10 A Fictional Risk Narrative and Its Potential for Social Resonance: Reception of Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior in Reviews and Reading Groups 218
18. Contributors 249
19. Index 253