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Parallel Prophecies: Science Fiction and Futurology in the Twentieth Century (2019)

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Science fiction and popular science writing sometimes intersect—authors have written in both genres, and magazines have published their writing side by side. Producing “hard” science fiction depends on getting the known science right and ensuring that predictions seem plausible. There have even been claims that science fiction should be used to make science itself accessible to a wider public. This article uses case studies from mid-twentieth-century Britain to illustrate the range of attitudes adopted by authors and publishers who sought to associate the two genres and to probe the notion of “plausibility” in this context.

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Article Amanda Rees; Iwan Rhys Morus (2019) Presenting Futures Past: Science Fiction and the History of Science. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 1-15). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Topham, Johnathan R.
Bowler, Peter J.
Baldwin, Melinda Clare
Csiszar, Alex
Huzel, James P.
Keene, Melanie
Journals
Archives of Natural History
History of Science
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Book History
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
Ashgate
Cambridge University Press
Other Press
Palgrave Macmillan
Concepts
Publishers and publishing
Popularization
Scientific literature
Science and literature
Science fiction
Periodicals; serials
People
Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
Clarke, Arthur C.
Cobbett, William
Desaguliers, John Theophilus
Dickens, Charles
Einstein, Albert
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, late
18th century
20th century, early
20th century
Places
Great Britain
India
United States
Soviet Union
France
Japan
Institutions
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
Macmillan
Bombay Natural History Society
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