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Post-Apocalyptic Geographies and Structural Appropriation [PDF]
Excerpt from Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies, edited by Nina Morgan, Alfred Hornung, and Takayuki ...
Hsu, Hsuan L., Yazell, Bryan
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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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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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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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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.
Brunsdon +38 more
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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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Turning ideologies inside out: Developing young readers’ empathy for critical voices in narrative fiction [PDF]
This article is located at the crossroads between two distinctive human traits, empathy and rational thought, with narrative emerging as a particularly powerful means to enable young readers to bring them together.
Campos, Ângela +1 more
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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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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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