De Witt Douglas Kilgore is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at Indiana University. He is the author of Astrofuturism: Science, Race and Visions of Utopia in Space (2003). His article “Seeking the Galactic Club: Fred Hoyle, Carl Sagan and the C/SETI Novel” is forthcoming in Handbook of Society and the Universe edited by Peter Dickens and James Ormrod.