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1. www.researchgate.net › publication › 267252454_Sense(PDF) Sense and Intention: Reading Science Fiction Worlds and ...

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   Jan 1, 2010 · Abstract. 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 ...

2. archive.org › details › ScienceFictionDictionaryScience Fiction Dictionary : Free Download, Borrow, and ...

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   Apr 28, 2011 · CC0 1.0 Universal. Topics. Science Fiction, Sci-Fi, SF, Dictionaries. Collection. opensource. Item Size. 10683366. Special thirteen-page feature published in Travelers of Space: An Anthology of Life on Other Worlds (Gnome Press, 1951), edited by Martin Greenberg. Addeddate.

3. www.academia.edu › 48009604 › An_Empirical_Revision(PDF) An Empirical Revision of the Definition of Science ...

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   RUNNING HEAD: An Empirical Revision… 2 Introduction: the need for a popular definition A recent literature review found that science fiction – in text, cartoon, game, film and television forms – is being increasingly used as source material to aid research outcomes across multiple disciplines (Menadue & Cheer, 2017).

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4. journals.sagepub.com › doi › fullAn Empirical Revision of the Definition of Science Fiction ...

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   Oct 9, 2020 · Resurrecting Gernsback’s awkward term is unrealistic, but the problem of competing “value-laden” terminology adds to the difficulties of genre classification. Discovering a popular definition of science fiction is a way of clarifying the real values of the genre as it is understood by a general audience.

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

   • Publish Year: 2020

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   Abstract. 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. One particularly influential approach is that of Darko Suvin (b. 1930), who calls SF.

6. www.researchgate.net › publication › 287487708(PDF) Meaning Through Fiction: Science Fiction and Innovative ...

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   Feb 15, 2016 · appelm@uni-landau.de. SCIENCE FICTION 2. Abstract. Connecting philosophical and psychological theories on meaning to theories and findings. on the real-world influence of fictional stories, the ...

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   Does science fiction need a definition?

   • The majority of papers did not provide any definitions of science fiction and this implies that “science fiction” was assumed to be universally comprehended without need for definition. Specialist approaches to genre definition, from a theoretical research tradition, omit the phenomenological experience of the contemporary audience.

   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.

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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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   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.

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8. www.researchgate.net › publication › 331249473(PDF) Understanding Speculative Fiction - ResearchGate

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   Nov 1, 2004 · Science fiction has managed to gain some academic credibility due to its positive relationship to the dominant culture of science, and the “science-fictionalization” of our increasingly ...