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Making Science, Making Scientists, Making Science Fiction: On the Co-Creation of Science and Science Fiction in the Social Imaginary

Socio, 2019
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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Trysts Tropiques: The Torrid Jungles of Science Fiction

eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2017
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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Cinéma/Science-fiction : vers un changement de paradigme critique ?

ReS Futurae, 2021
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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What Can Double Estrangement Reveal about Speculative Fiction?

Fafnir, 2023
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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Transhumanism and science fiction: ideological intersections and common motifs

Векторы благополучия: экономика и социум
Relevance. In an era of rapid advancement in artificial intelligence, biotechnology, cybernetics, and digital technologies, transhumanism emerges not only as a philosophical movement but also as a central theme in contemporary science fiction.
A.S. Terletskaya, V.A. Terletskii
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You’re an Orphan When Science Fiction Raises You

American, British and Canadian Studies Journal, 2020
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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From fantasy to sci-fi: social aspects of reflection of science in literature on the example of the Strugatsky brothers and Elizer Yudkowsky

Семиотические исследования
The work raises the issue of the popularity of science in modern science fiction literature. It defines science fiction and fantasy from the standpoint of social philosophy.
Sergey V. Feofanov
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On Some Properties of Science Fiction Dystopian Narrative

Armenian Folia Anglistika, 2017
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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Du théâtre de science-fiction politique au macro-événement culturel : étude de cas sur Vous êtes ici (en compagnie des créatrices) 

ReS Futurae, 2021
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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Ivagining worlds: on Ursula K. Le Guin, social science-fiction, and altertopias

Horizontes Antropológicos, 2023
Ethnography-based Anthropology and Science Fiction can engage in a productive dialogue since both address what is proposed as “altertopias”. Utopias, dystopias, and cultural alterity share the possibility of imagining social and cultural organizations ...
Miguel Vale de Almeida
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