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Csicsery-Ronay Jr., Istvan
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Fiction
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2011
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Wesleyan University Press
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English
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The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction
โ Scribed by Csicsery-Ronay, Istvan Jr
- Book ID
- 108640667
- Publisher
- Wesleyan University Press
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 353 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780819570925
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
As the world undergoes daily transformations through the application of technoscience to every aspect of life, science fiction has become an essential mode of imagining the horizons of possibility. However much science fiction texts vary in artistic quality and intellectual sophistication, they share in a mass social energy and a desire to imagine a collective future for the human species and the world. At this moment, a strikingly high proportion of films, commercial art, popular music, video and computer games, and non-genre fiction have become what Csicsery-Ronay calls science fictional, stimulating science-fictional habits of mind. We no longer treat science fiction as merely a genre-engine producing formulaic effects, but as a mode of awareness, which frames experiences as if they were aspects of science fiction. The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction describes science fiction as a constellation of seven diverse cognitive attractions that are particularly formative of...
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