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Dec 1, 2015 · Science fiction can be defined as a literary and narrative approach to the future, involving plots, action sequences, specific settings, dramatic resolutions, and varied and unique characters, human and otherwise.
Nov 3, 2017 · Kai Wiegandt examines how science fiction generates fascination through its treatment of time, and begins with the genre’s evocation of the sublime. Turning to the example of Poul Anderson’s Tau Zero (1970), he then discusses the relationship between...
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For our purposes, science fiction might be defined as fiction set in an imagined world that is different from our own in ways that are rationally explicable (often because of scientific advances) and that tend to produce
The second section introduces four important critical approaches to science fiction drawing their theoretical inspi-ration from Marxism, postmodernism, feminism and queer theory. The final and largest section of the book looks at various themes and sub-genres of science fiction.
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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...
Indeed, most so-called histories of science fiction are little more than genealogies that start with something arbitrary and not-quite genre – ‘proto-science fiction’ is a popular term – and proceed by a series of biblical begats: Wells begat Stapledon who begat Clarke who begat Baxter.
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Jul 26, 2018 · Literary and cultural historians describe science fiction (SF) as the premiere narrative form of modernity because authors working in this genre extrapolate from Enlightenment ideals and industrial practices to imagine how educated people using machines and other technologies might radically change the material world.
