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Biology appears in fiction, especially but not only in science fiction, both in the shape of real aspects of the science, used as themes or plot devices, and in the form of fictional elements, whether fictional extensions or applications of biological theory, or through the invention of fictional organisms.
Science fiction blends authors’ imaginative creations with scientific ideas, theories, predictions, and conjectures. Authors often utilize science fiction to explore the complexities and limitations of human nature in extraordinary circumstances.
Summary. Since humans are innately biological, and since most sf concerns human beings or other biological life forms, sf writers inevitably make biological assumptions - if only the default assumptions that the planets their fictional space travellers visit will have adequate gravity, air and exotic natives with the right number of chromosomes ...
Roberts provides a great reference for Science Fiction novices, offering a brief history of the Science Fiction field, an explanation of the critical terminology, and an overview of the key...
Jan 1, 2005 · Summary. This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction. Speculative Ecology and the Construction of Alien Biospheres. Ecological Mysticism in Science Fiction. Ecological Management and Control in Science Fiction. Ecocatastrophes in Science Fiction.
- Brian Stableford
- 2007
Oct 14, 2024 · science fiction, a form of fiction that deals principally with the impact of actual or imagined science upon society or individuals. The term science fiction was popularized, if not invented, in the 1920s by one of the genre’s principal advocates, the American publisher Hugo Gernsback.
Aug 3, 2017 · Summary What science fiction tells us about cultural literacy and literary culture, analyzed through work of rhetorician Kenneth Burke. Examining specifically science fiction as “equipment for living” (literature) as a genre of “satire by entelechy.” Literary criticism
