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“Dear Ivan Efremov”: A Critique of Socialist Science Fiction Theory

Mechademia, 2021
Sakyō Komatsu, Rebecca Suter
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Towards a Theory of Paranoia: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick

Science Fiction Studies, 1984
This 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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Fiction Science and the Role of Theory in ESE

2023
This 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, Bengtsson, Stefan, Lysgaard, Jonas Andreasen   +2 more
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Reading Literary Fiction and Theory of Mind: Three Preregistered Replications and Extensions of Kidd and Castano (2013)

Social Psychology and Personality Science, 2018
Scholars from diverse disciplines have proposed that reading fiction improves intersubjective capacities. Experiments have yielded mixed evidence that reading literary fiction improves performance on the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test, a test of ...
D. Kidd, Emanuele Castano
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Political Theory, Science Fiction, and Utopian Literature

2008
Ursula 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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Science Fiction as Theory Fiction

Modernism/Modernity Print Plus, 2022
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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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