Book ID: CBB502690791

Science Fiction (2021)

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Vint, Sherryl (Author)


MIT Press


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 224
Language: English

The world today seems to be slipping into a science fiction future. We have phones that speak to us, cars that drive themselves, and connected devices that communicate with each other in languages we don't understand. Depending on the news of the day, we inhabit either a technological utopia or a Brave New World nightmare. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series surveys the uses of science fiction. It focuses on what is at the core of all definitions of science fiction: a vision of the world made otherwise and what possibilities might flow from such otherness. After a brief overview of the genre's origins, science fiction authority Sherryl Vint considers how and why contemporary science fiction is changing. She explores anxieties in current science fiction over such key sites of technological innovation as artificial intelligence, genomic research and commodified biomedicine, and climate change. Connecting science fiction with speculative design and futurology in the corporate world, she argues that science fiction does not merely reflect these trends, but has a role in directing them.

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Authors & Contributors
Emanuela Piga Bruni
Friedman, Lester D.
Raffaella Vassena
Francesca Ripamonti
Marco Castellari
Luca Bernardini
Concepts
Science and culture
Science fiction
Science and literature
Popular culture
Science and entertainment; science and spectacle
Science and art
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
Modern
18th century
Medieval
Places
Europe
United States
Germany
Russia
Poland
North America
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