ABSTRACT
From downtown Seattle’s Westlake Center Mall station, it takes just two minutes by monorail to reach Seattle Center, in the shadow of the Space Needle and located within the strikingly odd Frank Gehry building that houses the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame. Clock time, however, may not be the best way to measure the journey, as it not only takes riders to one of the obvious destinations for a tourist interested in sf, but also reminds us that something we might call “sf tourism” involves a matrix of locations, events, ideas, and technologically imbricated phenomena that promote and reinforce the attitude toward the world or free-floating epistemology of “sf thinking.”
