"This well-edited collection offers a richly detailed and critically penetrating overview of science fiction television, from the plucky adventures of Captain Video to the postmodern paradoxes of The X-Files and Lost. Sixteen essays by major scholars in the field address topics ranging from the politics of Star Trek to the mythic resonances of The Twilight Zone, from the complexities of adapting material from other media to the science-fictionality of television itself. Teachers, students, and fans of SFTV will learn much from this engaging, indispensible volume."—Rob Latham, coeditor of Science Fiction Studies
"Telotte's volume makes clear how much science fiction is on television (and how much television has been the subject of science fiction). The contributors to this volume demonstrate how much this matters. These are well-written, accessible, and informative essays that cover the subject in depth, from Captain Video to Star Trek; from The X-Files to Firefly."—Robert Kolker, University of Virginia
"Recommended for academic libraries with an interest in communication, media, and culture." —Rosalind Dayen, Library Journal
"J. P. Telotte, a leading authority in the field of media studies, has compiled an impressive and qualified list of contributors to provide a synthesis of insight and analysis of the most important programs in the history of the genre's progress." —Paintsville Herald
"The huge increase in the number of complex, culturally significant series in the last twenty years makes the genre a vital one for close study." —Joe Milicia, The New York Review of Science Fiction
"Renowned scholar J. P. Telotte explores how animation has confronted the blank template, and how responses to that confrontation have changed." —thebookstallblog.blogspot.com
"Provides a provocative glimpse into cultural perspectives of space as a method for understanding both a technological and aesthetic history of animation and the evolution from a modern to postmodern mind-set." —Humanities
