Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-240) and index.
Introduction: Extrapolation and the Young Adult Reader -- 1. American Technological Fiction for Youth: 1900-1940 / Francis J. Molson -- 2. American Young Adult Science Fiction Since 1947 / C. W. Sullivan III -- 3. Young Adult Science Fiction in Canada / Greer Watson -- 4. The Janus Perspective: Science Fiction and the Young Adult Reader in Britain / K. V. Bailey and Andy Sawyer -- 5. German Science Fiction for Young Adults / Franz Rottensteiner -- 6. Australian Science Fiction for Children and Adolescents: 1940-1990 / John Foster -- 7. The Young Adult Science Fiction Novel as Bildungsroman / Michael M. Levy -- 8. Women in Heinlein's Juveniles / Marietta A. Frank -- 9. Young Adults, Science Fiction, and War / Martha Bartter -- 10. No Grownups, Please: A Study of the American Science Fiction Film / James Craig Holte -- 11. Science Fiction in Comic Books: Science Fiction Colonizes a Fantasy Medium / Donald Palumbo -- 12. Science Fiction for Children and Young Adults: Criticism and Other Secondary Materials / Michael M. Levy