Introduction. Sci fidelity: music, sound and genre history / Philip Hayward -- Ch. 1. Hooked on aetherophonics: The day the earth stood still / Rebecca Leydon -- Ch. 2. Atomic overtones and primitive undertones: Akira Ifukube's sound design for Godzilla / Shuhei Hosokawa -- Ch. 3. Forbidden planet: effects and affects in the electro avant garde / Rebecca Leydon -- Ch. 4. The transmolecularisation of [black] folk: Space is the place, Sun Ra and Afrofuturism / Nabeel Zuberi -- Ch. 5. Nostalgia, masculinist discourse, and authoritarianism in John Williams' scores for Star wars and Close encounters of the third kind / Neil Lerner -- Ch. 6. Sound and music in the Mad Max trilogy / Rebecca Coyle -- Ch. 7. "These are my nightmares": music and sound in the films of David Cronenberg / Paul Théberge -- Ch. 8. Ambient soundscapes in Blade runner / Michael Hannan and Melissa Carey -- Ch. 9. 'I'll be back': recurrent sonic motifs in James Cameron's Terminator films / Karen Collins -- Ch. 10. Inter-planetary soundclash: music, technology and territorialisation in Mars attacks! / Philip Hayward -- Ch. 11. Mapping The matrix: virtual spatiality and the realm of the perceptual / Mark Evans.