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Science fiction has taken the earlier idea of Utopia and embraced it in many different forms. ‘Utopias and dystopias’ elaborates these different strands and in particular traces the way that science fiction has, since the twentieth century, replaced Utopia with dystopias.
Science fiction (SF) emerges as a distinct literary and cultural genre out of a familiar set of world-famous texts ranging from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) to Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek (1966–) to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (2008–) that have, in aggregate, generated a colossal, communal archive of alternate worlds and ...
3 sie 2017 · This article aimed to uncover the foci, themes, and findings of research literature that utilized science fiction content or concepts to describe and illustrate human culture. To capture a represen...
2 paź 2014 · It may explore the evolution of a particular type of SF: for example, “futuristic fiction” (Alkon), “future-war fiction” (Clarke), “scientific romance” (Stableford), or “feminist SF” (Lefanu, Larbalestier, Merrick).
2 paź 2014 · Instead, this chapter will consider how the category of literary science fiction reflects the genre’s history, its culture, and its reception.
10 kwi 2023 · Science fiction has always been good at predicting distant futures and now governments are turning to them to ward off possible threats.
Science fiction is a literature with a heritage reaching back into ancient. times, to a pre-scientific world inhabited by peoples whose myths, legends and superstitions became a way of thinking about and explaining the wonders of the universe.
