Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: November 20th, 1998: dawn
Part I: World literature in orbit
Chapter 2: Dante in space
Chapter 3: What counts as literature?
Part II: A literature of the ultramundane
Chapter 4: The space of electronic literature
Chapter 5: Global catastrophe
Part III: Being-in-orbit
Chapter 6: Kosmotheoros in tears
Chapter 7: 'A machine, fallen from the sky'
Bibliography
Index