Cityscapes of the Future

AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction Meyrav Koren-Kuik and Yael Maurer Part 1: The City and the BodyUrban Twinship: The Body of the Futuristic City in Jeff VanderMeer's Veniss Underground Inbar KaminskyPast Future Cityscapes: Narratives of the Post-Human in Post-Urban Environments Eduardo Barros-GrelaArchitecture of Punishment: Dystopian Cities Marking the Body Elsa BouetPart 2: Cities of EstrangementTime Travel, Dystopia, and the Manhattan Skyscraper in George Allan England's The Last New Yorkers and Murray Leinster's "The Runaway Skyscraper" Rosalind FurslandWires are the New Filth: The Rebirth of Dickens' London in Cyberspace Keith Daniel HarrisCity of Lights No More: Dystopian Paris in French Science Fiction Henri-Simon Blanc-HoangSpatiality in the Cyber-World of William Gibson Imola BülgözdiPart 3: Cities of Imagination"Divided Against Itself": Dual Urban Chronotopes Elana GomelExperiencing the Cityscapes and Rural Landscapes as 'Citizens' of The Hunger Games Storyworld Natalie Krikowa'Final Men', Racialised Fears & the Control of Monstrous Cityscapes in Post-Apocalyptic Hollywood Films Glen DonnarImagination Reloaded: Transfiguring Urban Space into Virtual Space in the tv Series Caprica Torsten CaenersThe Dame Wore Skyscrapers: The Science-Fictional City as a Detective Story Shawn Edrei