Table of Contents

Introduction Section I 1. Beyond the Star Trek Phenomenon: Reconceptualizing the Science Fiction Audience 2. Positioning the SF Audience: Star Trek, Doctor Who and the Texts of Science Fiction 3. The Changing Audiences of Science Fiction Section II 4. `Throwing a Little Bit of Poison into Future Generations': Doctor Who Audiences and Ideology 5. `It's Meant To Be Fantasy': Teenage Audiences and Genre 6. `But Why is Doctor Who So Attractive': Negotiating Ideology and Pleasure 7. `But He's a Time Lord! He's A Time Lord!': Reading Formations, Followers and Fans 8. `We're Only A Speck In The Ocean': The Fans as Powerless Elite Section III 9. `Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations': Genre and Authorship in Star Trek

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Henry Jenkins, John Tulloch

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