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

Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 34
Issue: 1
Pages: 121-138

DOI: 10.1086/703952

URI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/703952

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Science and culture Scientific literature Publishers and publishing Popularization Futurology Science fiction 20th century, late Great Britain

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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