The work has different types of entries:
* Author entries, including entries on writers who have written about
science fiction or whose ideas fed into the genre
* Theme entries, on subjects often encountered in science fiction, e.g.
telepathy or robots, but also entries about science fiction itself (like
the history of science fiction)
* Terminology entries, similar to theme entries, explaining common words
used in science fiction (e.g. ion drive) as well as terms used to describe
science fiction
* Science fiction in various countries, entries that describe science
fiction in the non-English speaking world
* Films. While the focus of the encyclopedia lies with written science
fiction, 500 films are mentioned in the 1992 hardcover edition
* Television. Roughly 100 entries about TV series of science fiction
interest have been included
* Magazines. This includes the science fiction magazines, but also those
pulp magazines that regularly featured sf content and academic magazines
about science fiction.
* Fanzines.
* Comics. Entries have science fiction comics, publishers, writers and
artists.
* Illustrators. These entries only contain artists whose work is most
closely associated with the science fiction genre, mostly book or magazine
illustrators.
* Book publishers. Present and past science fiction publishers have their
own entries. There are theme entries about publishing.
* Original anthologies. Some original anthology series are given their
own entries.
* Awards. Certain science fiction awards have their own entries and there
is also a more general entry on them.
* Miscellaneous. Some 30 entries that did not fit elsewhere, including on
science fiction organisations, collections, publishing formats and even
some character entries.

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