Article ID: CBB607360681

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
Bowler, Peter J.
White, Alice
Wigelsworth, Jeffrey Robert
Topham, Johnathan R.
Talairach-Vielmas, Laurence
Stiles, Anne
Concepts
Publishers and publishing
Popularization
Science fiction
Scientific literature
Science and literature
Science and culture
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
18th century
20th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
India
London (England)
Japan
France
Institutions
Bombay Natural History Society
Macmillan
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