Adapting a dynamic version of semiotic theory, Stefanopoulou's study advances both a structural and social approach to one of today's most popular film genres. The result is a novel, ambitious, and indeed impressive effort at creating a theoretical map of-and informative guide to-the dizzying varieties of millennial science fiction narratives, as well as to the multiple, often contradictory, and invariably political discourses that they evoke.

J. P. Telotte, Professor Emeritus of Film and Media, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, and editor of The Oxford Handbook of New Science Fiction Cinemas

Genres are fluid and ever shifting, but from A.I. to X-Men, Stefanopoulou nonetheless succeeds in rigorously mapping Hollywood sf in the new millennium.

Mark Bould, Professor of Film and Literature, University of the West of England Bristol, UK