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Stacey Abbott is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Roehampton University. She has contributed to the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Science Fiction and written on the relationship between computer-generated effects and sf for Science Fiction Studies. She is also the author of Celluloid Vampires (2007).

Alain Badiou is former Chair of the Philosophy Department at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris. English translations of his work include Being and Event (1988; trans. 2005), Manifesto for Philosophy (1989; trans. 1999), Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil (1993; trans. 2000) and Deleuze: The Clamor of Being (1997; trans. 1999).

William Beard is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Alberta. He is the author of Persistence of Double Vision: Essays on Clint Eastwood (2000) and The Artist as Monster: The Cinema of David Cronenberg (2001; second edition 2006), and co-editor of North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema Since 1980 (2002). Recent publications include several essays on the cinema of Atom Egoyan, and he is currently at work on a book on Guy Maddin.

Mark Bould is a Reader in Film and Literature at the University of the West of England. He is the author of Film Noir: From Berlin to Sin City (2005) and The Cinema of John Sayles: Lone Star (2008), and co-editor of Parietal Games: Critical Writings By and On M. John Harrison (2005).

William Brown is a Teaching Fellow in Film Studies at the University of St Andrews. He recently completed a DPhil at the University of Oxford on the use of digital technology in contemporary cinema. He has published an article on Luc Besson and has a chapter on recent British cinema in the forthcoming third edition of The British Cinema Book.

Jarett Burke is completing his MA in Film and Media Studies at York University in Toronto. His thesis looks at the potential and process of catharsis through images, specifically in the cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky.

Andrew M. Butler is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University and an editor of the journal Extrapolation. He has published books on Philip K. Dick, cyberpunk, film studies, Christopher Priest and Ken MacLeod.

Pam Cook is Professor Emerita in Film at the University of Southampton. Editor of The Cinema Book (third edition 2007), her most recent book is Screening the Past: Memory and Nostalgia in Cinema (2005).

Karen Devlin is completing a PhD at the University of Hull on the Victorian poet Mary Coleridge. Her other research interests include the BBC series Life on Mars.

Neil Easterbrook has, among other publications, written several articles concerning Gibson and cyberpunk, including 'The Arc of Our Destruction' (on Neuromancer) and 'Alternate Presents' (on Pattern Recognition) in Science Fiction Studies, and 'Recognizing Patterns' [End Page 189] (on the Bridge sequence) in Beyond the Reality Studio (eds Graham J. Murphy and Sherryl Vint, forthcoming). He teaches at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas.

Carl Freedman is Professor of English and Director of English Graduate Studies at Louisiana State University. Best known for Critical Theory and Science Fiction (2000), he is the author and editor of several other books and the author of many articles and essays.

Seth Giddings is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Media and Critical Theory at the University of the West of England. He is co-author of New Media: A Critical Introduction (2003) and has published on animation and digital games.

Matt Hills is a Reader in Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University. The author of Fan Cultures (2002) and The Pleasures of Horror (2005), he has published widely on cult and genre fictions as well as media fandom. His Blade Runner and Triumph of a Time Lord are forthcoming.

Rob Latham is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Iowa. A senior editor of Science Fiction Studies since 1997, he is the author of Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of Consumption (2002). He is currently working on a book on New Wave sf.

Mariano Paz is a PhD student and a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Manchester. His thesis is partly focused...

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