ABSTRACT
Science fiction (sf) is the genre of the city. The peculiar conditions of positivistic hyperscientism within which sf is located are those that have traditionally been linked to the rise and spread of industrial societies whose emblem is the city. This chapter begins by highlighting the evolution of the interest of sf with the urban. In order to extract depictions of the urban in sf, the chapter introduces posthuman philosophy and its underlying episteme. It develops a typology of the future posthuman urban as "emerging" from different works of sf. The chapter also summarizes the main depictions of the urban. The transhuman is perhaps the most common type discussed in posthumanist literature. The ultimate posthuman is artificial intelligence, which makes human intelligence completely redundant. While New Human androids display sufficient intelligence, their human-form shell limits the extent to which their intelligence is truly posthuman.
