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Sherryl Vint, Vint Sherryl

Science Fiction

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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.

About the author

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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Product details

Authors	Vint Sherryl, Sherryl Vint
Publisher	The MIT Press

Content	Book
Product form	Paperback / Softback
Publication date	28.02.2021
Subject	Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs

EAN	9780262539999
ISBN	978-0-262-53999-9
Pages	224
Dimensions (packing)	12.7 x 17.8 x 1.5 cm

Series	Essential Knowledge series MIT Press Essential Knowledge series MIT Press Essential Knowledge
Subjects	LITERARY CRITICISM / General Literature: history & criticism Literature: history and criticism

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