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“some kind of thing it aint us but yet its in us”: David Mitchell, Russell Hoban, and metafiction after the millennium [PDF]

, 2014
This article appraises the debt that David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas owes to the novels of Russell Hoban, including, but not limited to, Riddley Walker. After clearly mapping a history of Hoban’s philosophical perspectives and Mitchell’s inter-textual genre-
Adorno T. W., Aubry T., Barthes R., Bloom H., Bolaño R., Cowart D., Edwards C., Farred G., Foulke R., Genette G., Hoban R., Hoban R., Hoban R., Hoban R., Hoban R., Hoban R., Hoban R., Hopf C., Hutcheon L., Kauffman L. S., Kristeva J., Machinal H., McHale B., Mitchell D., Mitchell D., Mitchell D., Mitchell D., Myers E., Pynchon T., Riffaterre M., Stephenson W., Tejedor C., Visconti L., Waugh P., Wilkie C., Wilkie C., Wilkie-Stibbs C., Wittgenstein L.   +37 more
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The Realism of Speculative Fiction: Planetary Polyphony and Scale in Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future

The Real in Fiction
In “Thinking in SF Mode” (2021), Isabelle Stengers distinguishes between philosophical thought experiments (such as Maxwell’s demon [1867] or Searle’s Chinese room) and the ability of speculative fiction to test hypothesizes in fully developed ...
Pierre-Louis Patoine
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Manufacturing Continuous Fiber‐Reinforced Printing Filaments: Development of a Post‐Consolidation Unit

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
A novel, temperature‐controlled post‐consolidation unit is developed to test its potential to improve the melt impregnation process used to manufacture continuous fiber‐reinforced filaments for additive manufacturing of high‐performance thermoplastics.
Daniel Beermann, Patrick Schiebel, David May   +2 more
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Editorial Sonderheft »Spekulative Fiktion und Ethik/Speculative Fiction and Ethics«

Zeitschrift für Fantastikforschung, 2023
Editorial of the special issue Speculative Fiction and Ethics.
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Speculative Fiction in Native American Indian Literature: Active Resistance to Female American Indian Stereotypes [PDF]

, 2013
Native American authors who are actively seeking to disrupt patriarchy and colonial narratives tend not to write in the literary genre of speculative fiction, which is a literary form that often serves to subvert Indigenous identities through colonial ...
Burnham, Jennifer
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Surrogacy and dystopian positionality: narrative reproduction between speculative fiction and chick lit

Asian Journal of Medical Humanities
When it comes to Anglophone surrogate fictions, it seems that one reader’s dystopia is another writer’s chick lit: whereas widely received fictional narratives about surrogacy which are set in a future North America, such as The Handmaid’s Tale and The ...
Julia Wurr
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Organic Electrochemical Transistor Channel Materials: Copolymerization Versus Physical Mixing of Glycolated and Alkoxylated Polymers

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This work discusses the use of blended channel materials in OECTs. It explores how mixing glycolated and alkoxylated polymers in various ratios offers a simpler and more efficient route to tuning OECT properties. The performance of the polymer blends is compared to the corresponding copolymers, demonstrating similar OECT characteristics, swelling ...
Lize Bynens, Kaishuai Zhang, Priscila Cavassin, Arwin Goossens, Jochen Vanderspikken, Tania C. H. Castillo, Demetra Tsokkou, Adam Marks, Arianna Magni, Karrie Weaver, Laurence Lutsen, Sahika Inal, Koen Vandewal, Natalie Banerji, Wouter Maes   +14 more
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Speculating-with Other-than-Humans in Multispecies Climate Fiction: Canopy of the Hidden Alley

Australian Journal of Environmental Education
This article explores multispecies climate fiction as a mode of inquiry that speculates-with other-than-humans. To explore cli-fi’s potential in research, I position speculative fiction in the field of research-creation, a praxis that combines artistic ...
Antje Jacobs
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Speculative Literature in Modern Society: Octavia Butler and the Tragedy of the Commons [PDF]

, 2017
What leads to peaceful prosperity and what leads to destructive collapse in any society? While it may seem daunting or overwhelming to dissect the success or collapse of a multi-faceted society, there are lenses and tools through which we are able to do ...
Miller, Katherine Elyse
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Design Ideation Through Speculative Fiction: Foundational Principles and Exploratory Study

Journal of Mechanical Design, 2021
The objective of this study is to position speculative fiction as a broader framework to stimulate, facilitate, and study engineering design ideation.
M. Kotecha, Ting-Ju Chen, D. McAdams, Vinayak R. Krishnamurthy   +3 more
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