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An anthropological outlook over the Science-Fiction [PDF]
The image of Science Fiction for human society – a double perspective: how the phenomenon of Science-Fiction is viewed, and how it imprints culture/society.
Mircea Băduț
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Visions of a Martian Future [PDF]
As we look beyond our terrestrial boundary to a multi-planetary future for humankind, it becomes paramount to anticipate the challenges of various human factors on the most likely scenario for this future: permanent human settlement ...
Abood, Steven +10 more
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Cinéma/Science-fiction : vers un changement de paradigme critique ?
Science fiction is currently integrated into the « mainstream » cinema, a very broad category that allows for the creation of major projects, whose objective of spectacular entertainment is no longer incompatible with a certain intellectual ambition and ...
Simon Bréan
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Trysts Tropiques: The Torrid Jungles of Science Fiction
In science fiction magazines of the first half of the twentieth century, tropical environments are chaotic domains where civilised restrictions do not apply.
Christopher B. Menadue
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Doctors in space (ships): biomedical uncertainties and medical authority in imagined futures [PDF]
There has been considerable interest in images of medicine in popular science fiction and in representations of doctors in television fiction. Surprisingly little attention has been paid to doctors administering space medicine in science fiction.
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Most work on the relationship between science and science fiction focuses on how science fiction can advance science by speculatively elaborating scientific theories. This text, to the contrary, argues that we should understand some science fiction texts
Brad Tabas
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What Can Double Estrangement Reveal about Speculative Fiction?
In my book Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color, I use the phrase “double estrangement” to describe science fiction texts that add a layer of racial self-consciousness to the estrangement of science fictional settings.
Joy Sanchez-Taylor
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On Some Properties of Science Fiction Dystopian Narrative
Dystopia is a narrative form of fiction in general and of science fiction in particular. Using elements of science fiction discourse like time travel, space flight, advanced technologies, virtual reality, genetic engineering, etc.
Gaiane Muradian, Anna Karapetyan
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You’re an Orphan When Science Fiction Raises You
In Among Others, Jo Walton’s fairy story about a science-fiction fan, science fiction as a genre and archive serves as an adoptive parent for Morwenna Markova as much as the extended family who provide the more conventional parenting in the absence of ...
Halpin Jenni G.
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This paper is a problematized study of an atypical case of the contemporary Swiss theater scene: Vous êtes ici, a science-fiction theater series unfolding its 10 episodes over the 2020-2021 season.
Aurélien Maignant, Roberta Alberico
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