Science Fiction (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)

Vint, Sherryl

ISBN 10: 0262539993 / ISBN 13: 9780262539999

Editore: The MIT Press, 2021

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Riassunto:

How science fiction has been a tool for understanding and living through rapid technological change.

The world today seems to be slipping into a science fiction future. We have phones that speak to us, cars that drive themselves, and connected devices that communicate with each other in languages we don't understand. Depending the news of the day, we inhabit either a technological utopia or Brave New World nightmare. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge surveys the uses of science fiction. It focuses on what is at the core of all definitions of science fiction: a vision of the world made otherwise and what possibilities might flow from such otherness.

Informazioni sull'autore: Sherryl Vint is Professor of Science Fiction Media Studies at University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Bodies of Tomorrow, Animal Alterity, and Science Fiction: A Guide for the Perplexed, coauthor of the Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction, and coeditor of The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction (2009).

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Titolo: Science Fiction (The MIT Press Essential ...
Casa editrice: The MIT Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2021
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: good