Science Fiction
Lost in space? Readers' constructions of science fiction worlds
... t science fiction, like o th er forms of ‘im possibility fiction’ (horror, fantasy, th e gothic), brin g s to g eth er re a list and fan tastic form s of ...possibility fiction is ch ...
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Science fiction prototypes in educational and business settings
... previously Science Fiction Prototyping practice has largely focused around delivery within classroom style workshops or as role playing activities, however the workshop proposed here is an expansion ...
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H.P. Lovecraft’s Philosophy of Science Fiction Horror
... of science fiction horror? Not because Lovecraft was a great systematic ...including science, politics, and literature, but show no signs of ...
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Terence Fisher and British Science Fiction Cinema
... then science fiction provides a very specific area where those boundaries become particularly blurred; this is in its distinctive relationship to the horror ...that science fiction ...
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The stuff of science fiction : an experiment in literary history
... contribution specifically. His anthologies must be understood as the work of a particularly industrious fan, an active participant in the robust tradition of SF fandom well-known for (among other things) playing a key ...
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Anthropology as Science Fiction, or How Print Capitalism Enchanted Victorian Science
... fiction, and even the pessimism of the “New Wave” of the 1960s: cyber- punk emphasized digital and nanotechnology as invading minds and bodies at a micro-scale, in stark contrast to the large-scale “Hoover Dam” ...
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Science Fiction
... a science fictional one that has more in common with an alien invasion or UFO abduction story than to any realist or naturalist ...that science fiction writers ...
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Identifying functions and characters for science fiction prototyping
... of science fiction stories as potential ...reading fiction as a SFP - ‘reading’ characters from left to right across the table assists in the deconstruction of a literary character into a participant ...
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The Time Machine: Leisure Science (Fiction) and Futurology
... in science and technology become an employed elite, while the vast majority of unemployed are idle, supported by some form of Universal Basic Income (UBI)? In the absence of work, what would people do? While these ...
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Trysts tropiques: the torrid jungles of science fiction
... digitized science fiction magazine issues, reflecting over 50% of professional science fiction magazine publishing from 1926 onwards, were searched for occurrences of the stemmed words ...
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The Strategic Prototype "Crime-sourcing" and the Science/Science Fiction behind it
... of science fiction prototyping (SFP) is to communicate complex science ideas and their projections to a lay audience, provoking thought and informed discussion on the ...of science ...
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Science fiction and economic cycles A dialogue on technological expectations
... If science fiction is taken as prediction, it is more often dystopian than ...of science fiction authors are depopulated through some deus ex machina of megadeath – whether through nuclear ...
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PROSPERO THE MEDIEVAL SCHOLAR AS AN EARLY PRODUCT OF SCIENCE FICTION
... by science fiction. The recent depiction the 'cyborg' in science fiction which is an amalgamation of a human brain and body with a computer processor and machine body parts/attachments that ...
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PEACE FOR ALL MANKIND THROUGH SCIENCE FICTION GENRE
... levels. Science fiction books and films, including animations could be reframed and re-presented to include conflict-negotiation strategies and the benefits of their ...most science fiction ...
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Visions of the Future: Dream narratology in (Proto )Science Fiction
... Dream narration has a lengthy history in the Western literary tradition, functioning as the earliest iteration of the frame story. Dream narratives can be found in the Bible, and in Greek and Latin classical literature, ...
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Sense and Intention: Reading Science Fiction Worlds and Characters
... This paper examines prototype worlds and characters in selected Science Fiction (SF) texts. It utilises certain principles of I.A Richard‟s Practical Criticism, particularly in relation to “sense” and ...
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Women and Men in Writing Science Fiction Short Stories
... ‘Suddenly a person he recognized as The President stood up with a sign that said, “DO IT”’. Another example presents a short part of one of the females’ stories that includes six dia- logues: ‘“I can offer you something ...
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Stephen Hawking: blending science with science fiction
... of science fiction, which survived the impact of this scientific apocalypse, include interests expressed by Stephen Hawking – putting ourselves at the mercy of machines, communicating with non-human life ...
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Fixed: the science/fiction of human enhancement
... increasingly sees health and illness as a matter of personal responsibility, questions about the potential of therapeutic technologies to also confer beyond-normal abilities tend to be answered with the language of human ...
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Science fiction texts, gender and transformation
... short science fiction text The Hero of Coming of Age in Karhide (Le Guinn, 2002) the persons, known as Gethenians, have no sex role or gender assigned to them until they come into ...
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