Science Fiction and Computing

David L. Ferro is an associate professor of computer science at Weber State University. He has published on both science fiction and real-world computer science. Award-winning author Eric G. Swedin is an associate professor of information systems & technologies at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Introduction by David L. Ferro      1. Technology’s Other Storytellers: Science Fiction as History of TechnologyTHOMAS HAIGH      2. Computers in Science Fiction: Anxiety and AnticipationCHRIS PAK      3. Murray Leinster and “A Logic Named Joe”ERIC G. SWEDIN AND DAVID L. FERRO      4. Atorox, a Finnish Fictional Robot with a Changing Personality in the Late 1940sJAAKKO SUOMINEN      5. Computer Science on the Planet KryptonGARY WESTFAHL      6. Manned Space Flight and Artificial Intelligence: “Natural” Trajectories of TechnologyPAUL E. CERUZZI      7. “That Does Not Compute”: The Brittleness Bottleneck and the Problem of Semantics in Science FictionLISA NOCKS      8. “Hello, Computer”: The Interplay of Star Trek and Modern ComputingJOSHUA CUNEO      9. Turn Off the Gringo Machine! The “Electronic Brain” and Cybernetic Imagination in Brazilian CinemaALFREDO SUPPIA      10. A (Brave New) World Is More Than a Few Gizmos Crammed Together: Science Fiction and CybercultureTHIERRY BARDINI      11. True Risks? The Pleasures and Perils of CyberspaceJANET ABBATE      12. Science Fiction as Myth: Cultural Logic in Gibson’s NeuromancerR.C. ALVARADO      13. Creating a Techno-Mythology for a New Age: The Production History of The Lawnmower ManDAVID A. KIRBY      14. Embodiment, Emotion, and Moral Experiences: The Human and the Machine in FilmHUNTER HEYCK      15. “Predicting the Present”: Overclocking Doctorow’s OverclockedGRAHAM J. MURPHY      16. “Low on Milk. I Love You!”HOWARD TAYLOR      17. Nanotechnology Tomorrows: Nanocritters and Other Tiny Things in Science FictionRICHARD L. MCKINNEY      18. Imagining the Omniscient Computer DAVID TOOMEYAbout the Contributors      Index