Rachel Holland is Associate Lecturer in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing at Lancaster University, UK.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Two cultures in competition: Martin Amis's The Information and Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd.- Chapter 3: The postneuronovel: Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers and Thinks...by David Lodge.- Chapter 4: Michel Houellebecq and the possibilities of fiction.- Chapter 5: Scientific transcendentalism in Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections and Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood.- Chapter 6: Ian McEwan and the aeroplane view.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.