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The Ethics of Extrapolation: Science Fiction in the Technical Communication Classroom
Technical Communication Quarterly, 2021This article argues that science fiction is a powerful tool for teaching ethics in the technical communication classroom. As a literary genre, science fiction is uniquely situated to critique the social and political consequences of technological ...
Derek Lee
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Cherokee Historical Fiction and Indigenous Science Fiction in Riding the Trail of Tears
MELUS, 2020Turning to Indigenous genre theory, this article interprets Blake M. Hausman's Riding the Trail of Tears (2011) as a work of both Indigenous science fiction and Cherokee historical fiction.
J. Jackson, Megan Vallowe
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Nuclear Field Theory: Exact Theory or Science Fiction?
1981To understand the boson behavior of a fermion system is of fundamental importance in many fields of physicsl. In nuclear physics, this problem too has attracted enormous interest because of the successes of the Interacting Boson Model (IBM)2. One possible way to carry out such studies is the nuclear field theory (NFT)3 which was first proposed in 1968 ...
Da Hsuan Feng, Cheng-Li Wu
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Fiction Science and the Role of Theory in ESE
2023This presentation will conceptualize fiction science and the derived potential for the ESE field (Bengtsson & Lysgaard, 2023). Fiction science can be seen as a form of paying homage to realism in science, where we see the acknowledgement of realism as to open up again the facticity of how things are.
McKenzie, Marcia +2 more
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“Dear Ivan Efremov”: A Critique of Socialist Science Fiction Theory
Mechademia, 2021Sakyō Komatsu, Rebecca Suter
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Towards a Theory of Paranoia: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick
Science Fiction Studies, 1984This essay has a twofold aim: to outline a theory of paranoia, and to demonstrate the relevance of this theory to SF in general and to the work of Philip K. Dick in particular.
Carl Freedman
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Political Theory, Science Fiction, and Utopian Literature
2008Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed is of interest to political theorists partly because of its association with anarchism and partly because it is thought to represent a turning point in the history of utopian/dystopian political thought and literature and of science fiction.
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