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   Abstract and Figures. Data from an audience survey on the characteristics of the science fiction and fantasy genres was compared to existing approaches to genre classification to build an ...

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   Introduction: The Need for a Popular Definition. A recent review found science fiction is increasingly used as source material for research with intentionally public rele-vance and consequences (Menadue & Cheer, 2017).

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   Oct 9, 2020 · Introduction: The Need for a Popular Definition. A recent review found science fiction is increasingly used as source material for research with intentionally public relevance and consequences (Menadue & Cheer, 2017).

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

   • Publish Year: 2020

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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...

   • Author: Russell Blackford

   • Publish Year: 2017

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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.

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   These align with some academic theories but differ from postmodern approaches as the analysis suggests science fiction can be defined categorically. The empirical survey data are consistent and demonstrate an unmistakable distinction between popular definitions of science fiction and fantasy.

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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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   What is the science fiction & fantasy your Opinions Survey?

   • The Science Fiction & Fantasy: Your Opinions survey (Menadue, 2017a) was created with the intention to do this empirically. Online promotion generated a statistically significant sample of 232 unique, globally distributed, responses to the survey, gathered between November 11, 2016, and May 5, 2017.

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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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   Does a plausible narrative influence the classification of a work as science fiction?

   • The presence of a plausible narrative influences the classification of a work as science fiction, however, and the formal narrative structure implied by this (perhaps in contrast to a more “free” style that may be associated with fantasy) may be an indicator that influences categorization.

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8. 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.