Introduction : mapping the millennium : themes and trends in contemporary British fiction / Nick Bentley -- From excess to new world order / Fred Botting -- "Refugees from time": history, death and the flight from reality in contemporary writing / Andrzej Gasiorek -- Science and fiction in the 1990s / Patricia Waugh -- British science fiction in the 1990s : politics and genre / Roger Luckhurst -- The McReal thing : personal/national identity in Julian Barnes's England, England / Sarah Henstra -- Cyberspace and the body : Jeanette Winterson's The.powerbook / Sonya Andermahr -- "Fascinating violation" : Ian McEwan's children / Peter Childs -- "Tongues of bone" : A.L. Kennedy and the problems of articulation / Helen Stoddart -- Mr Wroe's virgins : the "other Victorians" and recent fiction / B.E. Maidment -- Pat Barker's vanishing boundaries / Lynda Prescott -- Singular events : the "as if" of Beryl Bainbridge's Every man for himself / Fiona Becket -- Iain Sinclair's millennial fiction : the example of slow chocolate autopsy / Julian Wolfreys -- Hedgemony? suburban space in the buddha of suburbia / Susan Brook -- Iain Sinclair : the psychotic geographer treads the borderlines / Peter Brooker.