One of my favorite SF themes is that "technology is going to kill us," part of what Bukatman suggests is the conservative undercurrent that drives SF. Behold the dangers Dorothy faced:

Brewster Rockit Copyright 2005 Tim Rickard

To continue the theme from previous posts—what do we do with this in class? Is this the rhetoric of Chicken Little? As SF and "real life" get closer and closer, the novels about VR games driving people to murder ride the same airwaves as congressional hearings about videogame violence.