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   The obvious place to begin a Critical History of science fiction is with a definition of its topic, but this is no easy matter. Many critics have offered definitions of SF, and the resulting critical discourse is a divergent and contested field.

2. www.researchgate.net › publication › 318880379_Human(PDF) Human Culture and Science Fiction: A Review of the ...

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   Aug 3, 2017 · This article aimed to uncover the foci, themes, and findings of research literature that utilized science fiction content or concepts to describe and illustrate human culture. To capture a ...

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   Jan 1, 2010 · This paper examines prototype worlds and characters in selected Science Fiction (SF) texts. It utilises certain principles of I.A Richard"s Practical Criticism, particularly in relation to...

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   Oct 9, 2020 · Techne is empirical in the sense that science fiction refers to the experience of the existence of an empirically based world, and the survey of science fiction readers finds clear and practical categories that separate science fiction from fantasy literature.

   • Author: Christopher Benjamin Menadue, Kristi Giselsson, David Guez

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   Feb 15, 2016 · Connecting philosophical and psychological theories on meaning to theories and findings on the real-world influence of fictional stories, the authors argue that science fiction provides...

6. www.tandfonline.com › doi › fullAtmospheres and science fiction - Taylor & Francis Online

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   Nov 7, 2019 · The primary way we engage with fiction is through story and feeling. While theories of stories abound, little has been done in terms of investigating how stories produce feelings—what I call atmospheres in this essay. Atmospheres describe the feelings and moods that permeate a fictional world.

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   What is science fiction?

   • Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative Policies and ethics Science fiction is a cultural response to the revolutions in science and technology during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.

   Introduction: Science and the Rise of Science Fiction

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   Why is science fiction a 'fuzzy set'?

   • We argue, however, that the “fuzzy sets” of similarities and themes associated with historic and contemporary science fiction are attracted into more or less enduring orbits around the genre by family resemblance to specific and essential characteristics of the core.

   An Empirical Revision of the Definition of Science Fiction: It Is All

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   What is science fiction & fantasy?

   • An Empirical Revision of the Definition of Science Fiction: It Is All in the Techne . . . Researchers employ science fiction and fantasy in public engagement, advocacy, and education as significant sources of insights to identify public interests, inspire public policy, and influence future science.

   An Empirical Revision of the Definition of Science Fiction: It Is All

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   Is science fiction a popular mode of thinking?

   • The findings from that survey underpin our theoretical argument. Science fiction has been described as “a crucial and popular mode, even the mainstream mode, of thinking about life in a modern technoscientific world” (Weiner et al., 2018, p.

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   What are the characteristics of science fiction?

   • Science fiction writers have employed the characteristic tropes of SF to engage with a wide variety of philosophical and moral questions. The future is another country. Human societies have always experienced change, whether from invasions and warfare , from mass religious movements, or from plague, famine, and natural disasters.

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   What makes a science fiction genre meaningful?

   • For the genre of science fiction to remain meaningful, similarities and family resemblances must refer to something within the object, the science fiction text, and we find that the definitive core of science fiction is drawn from a feature of human experience that is independent of the changing fashions of the historical narrative.

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   Sep 6, 2017 · Science fiction is a cultural response to the revolutions in science and technology during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. These altered the existing methods of industry and production, understandings of the universe and ourselves, and concepts...