PrefaceIntroductionChapter One Mercier's The Year 2440, a Dream and a "Thought Experiment"Chapter Two Origins of Hard Science Fiction: An ApproachChapter Three Beyond Utopia: The Dystopian Capitalist Society in Paris in the Twentieth Century (1863)Chapter Four With Second Sight and Afro-pessimism: The Im/Possibility of Black Utopia in Martin R. Delany's Blake; or, The Huts of AmericaChapter Five The Phenomenon of Human-Animal Hybridization in Russian Science Fiction of the 20th CenturyChapter Six Barjavel, Ravage: roman extraordinaire (1943)Chapter Seven Dystopia as the First-Person World: Rereading E. M. Forster's The Machine Stops as a Pandemic Novel of a Global SocietyChapter Eight Orwellian Themes and Echoes in Today's World---A PerspectiveChapter Nine The 19th Century American Socialism: A Vision of a Future UtopiaChapter Ten The Invention of Morel, a Projection on Dreams and ImmortalityAppendix: Non-exhaustive List of Titles in Science Fiction, Utopias and DystopiasIndexAbout the Editor and Contributors