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The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction
Istvan Csicsery-Ronay
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Paperback. A major critical work from one of the preeminent voices of science fiction scholarship Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 503.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press United States
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780819570925
SKU
V9780819570925
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