From Semaphors And Steamships To Servers And Spaceships: The Saga Of Globalization, Science Fiction, And The Cybernetic Revolution / Gary Westfahl -- Going Mobile: Tradition, Technology, And The Cultural Monad / George Slusser -- Urge Et Orbe: A Prehistory Of The Postmodern World City / Howard V. Hendrix -- 2001, Or A Cyberpalace Odyssey: Toward The Ideographic Imagination / Takayuki Tatsumi -- The Genealogy Of The Cyborg In Japanese Popular Culture / Sharalyn Orbaugh -- Hermeneutics And Taiwan Science Fiction / Wong Kin Yuen -- Is Utopia Obsolete? Imploding Boundaries In Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age / N. Katherine Hayles -- Tales Of Futures Passed: The Kipling Continuum And Other Lost Worlds Of Science Fiction / Andy Sawyer -- Globalization In Japanese Science Fiction, 1900 And 1963: The Seabed Warship And Its Re-interpretation. Thonmas Schnellbacher -- The Limits Of Humanity In Comparative Perspective: Cordwainer Smith And The Soushenji / Lisa Raphals -- The Idea Of The Asian In Philip K. Dick's The Man In The High Castle / Jake Jakaitis -- Godzilla's Travels: The Evolution Of A Globalized Gargantuan / Gary Westfahl -- Black Secret Technology: African Technological Subjects / Gerald Gaylard -- The Teeth Of The New Cockatoo: Mutation And Trauma In Greg Egan's Teranesia / Chris Palmer -- When Cyberfeminism Meets Chinese Philosophy: Computer, Weaving And Women / Amy Kit-sze Chan -- Hollywood Enters The Dragon / Veronique Flambard-weisbart -- Romeo Must Die: Action And Agency In Hollywood And Hong Kong Action Films / Susanne Rieser And Susanne Lummerding. Edited By Wong Kin Yuen, Gary Westfahl And Amy Kit-sze Chan. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [287]-300) And Index. Mode Of Access: World Wide Web.