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Informationist Science Fiction Theory and Informationist Science Fiction

2010
Informationist Science Fiction theory provides a way of analysing science fiction texts and narratives in order to demonstrate on an informational basis the uniqueness of science fiction proper as a mode of fiction writing. The theoretical framework presented can be applied to all types of written texts, including non-fictional texts.
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Toward an External Use of Science Fiction Theories

2022
La science-fiction met en jeu toute une gamme de procédés dynamiques, organisés autour d’un principe central, la construction d’un monde ouvertement distinct du nôtre, mais dont le récit donne à éprouver l’attractivité en même temps que la plausibilité. Ces procédés répondent tous à un même objectif : un rapport entre monde de fiction et monde réel qui
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The State of the Art in Science Fiction Theory: Determining and Delimiting the Genre

Science Fiction Studies, 1979
D. Suvin
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The Sexist Gene: Science Fiction and the Germ Theory of History

American Literary History, 2002
Within the bodies of their hosts, the virus clans worked. Mutating, manipulating the DNA structures, using the knowledge gained over billions of years. . . . ... While it was true that many of the hosts would need to be sacrificed before the key sequences could be found, the hosts were plentiful.
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Comparative Literature, World-Systems Theory and Science Fiction

2007
Media and cultural studies have been one of few recent growth areas in the academic humanities and social sciences, especially in the United States and other Anglophone societies. At times, they have clearly threatened to subsume or sideline more traditional forms of literary study.
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Latin American Science Fiction: Theory and Practice ed. by Elizabeth M. Ginway and J. Andrew Brown (review)

, 2014
S. Manickam
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A theory of science fiction

2023
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Translation Methods of Scientific Long Sentences in Science Fiction Novel from the Perspective of Reception Theory: A Case Study of The Three-Body Problem

, 2019
Xiaojing Ren, Yushan Zhao
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THE CONCEPT OF CHANGE IN SCIENCE FICTION THEORY AND DISCOURSE

2015
The argument and the objective presented in this paper is that change is a key concept and a basis for the ideology of change in the unique genre of science fiction, and as such is reflected not only in science fiction theory but also in science fiction discourse (one of the peculiarities of the genre is that many basic theoretical approaches and ...
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What Science Fiction Can Demonstrate About Novelty in the Context of Discovery and Scientific Creativity

Foundations of Science, 2019
C. Lee
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