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Journal articles on the topic "History of science fiction"

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Xia, Tianyi. "The Development History of Chinese Science Fiction from Liu Cixin's Science Fiction." International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics 6, no. 3 (September 2020): 136–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.18178/ijlll.2020.6.3.265.

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Rabkin, Eric S., James B. Mitchell, and Carl P. Simon. "Who Really Shaped American Science Fiction?" Prospects 30 (October 2005): 45–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361233300001976.

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Treating science fiction, critics have taught us to understand that the field shrugged itself out of the swamp of its pulp origins in two great evolutionary metamorphoses, each associated with a uniquely visionary magazine editor: Hugo Gernsback and John W. Campbell Jr. Paul Carter, to cite one critic among many, makes a case that Hugo Gernsback's magazines were the first to suggest thatscience fiction was not only legitimate extrapolation… [but] might even become a positive incentive to discovery, inspiring some engineer or inventor to develop in the laboratory an idea he had first read about in one of the stories. (5)Another, critic and author Isaac Asimov, argues that science fiction's fabledGolden Age began in 1938, when John Campbell became editor of Astounding Stories and remolded it, and the whole field, into something closer to his heart's desire. During the Golden Age, he and the magazine he edited so dominated science fiction that to read Astounding was to know the field entire. (Before the Golden Age, xii)Critics arrive at such understandings not only by surveying the field but also — perhaps more importantly — by studying, accepting, modifying, or even occasionally rejecting the work of other critics. This indirect and many-voiced conversation is usually seen as a self-correcting process, an informal yet public peer review. Such interested scrutiny has driven science fiction (SF) criticism to evolve from the letters to the editor and editorials and mimeographed essays of the past to the nuanced literary history of today, just as, this literary history states, those firm-minded editors helped SF literature evolve from the primordial fictions of Edgar Rice Burroughs into the sophisticated constructs of William S. Burroughs.
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Reinsborough, Michael. "Science fiction and science futures: considering the role of fictions in public engagement and science communication work." Journal of Science Communication 16, no. 04 (September 20, 2017): C07. http://dx.doi.org/10.22323/2.16040307.

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The imagination of possible scientific futures has a colourful history of interaction with scientific research agendas and public expectations. The 2017 annual UK Science in Public conference included a panel discussing this. Emphasizing fiction as a method for engaging with and mapping the influence of possible futures, this panel discussed the role of science fiction historically, the role of science fiction in public attitudes to artificial intelligence, and its potential as a method for engagement between scientific researchers and publics. Science communication for creating mutually responsive dialogue between research communities and publics about setting scientific research agendas should consider the role of fictions in understanding how futures are imagined by all parties.
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Spitzer, Alan B., and Michael S. Lewis-Beck. "Social Science Fiction." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 30, no. 2 (October 1999): 259–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/002219599551976.

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Grillmayr, Julia. "Speculations, fabulations, incantations: Science fiction, contemporary futurology and how to change the world." European Journal of American Culture 41, no. 3 (September 1, 2022): 267–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ejac_00079_1.

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After giving a short insight into the ambivalent relationship between science fiction (SF) and futurology, this article sheds light on the current trend of what can be called science-fictional scenario writing, focusing on the publications of the Center for Science and the Imagination at the Arizona State University. The stories published in projects, such as Hieroglyph, the Climate Fiction short story contest Everything Change or the Tomorrow Project, are indistinguishable from conventional SF short stories. However, the frameworks of these projects share a certain futurological ambition. Also, they seek to enable the readers and writers of these stories to actively shape possible futures. In search for a label for this specific text form, Rebecca Wilbanks aptly coined the term ‘incantatory fictions’. This article explores the nature, the self-understanding und the practices of these speculations, fabulations and incantations by considering the metatexts of the afore-mentioned publications and by talking to people who work at the interface between SF and futurology.
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Clarke, Jim. "Buddhist Reception in Pulp Science Fiction." Literature and Theology 35, no. 3 (August 1, 2021): 355–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frab020.

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Abstract Science fiction has a lengthy history of irreligion. In part, this relates to its titular association with science itself, which, as both methodology and ontological basis, veers away from revelatory forms of knowledge in order to formulate hypotheses of reality based upon experimental praxis. However, during science fiction’s long antipathy to faith, Buddhism has occupied a unique and sustained position within the genre. This article charts the origins of that interaction, in the pulp science fiction magazines of the late 1920s and early 1930s, in which depictions of Buddhism quickly evolve from ‘Yellow Peril’ paranoia towards something much more intriguing and accommodating, and in so doing, provide a genre foundation for the environmental concerns of much 21st-century science fiction.
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Yacine, Barka Rabeh, and Ahmad Y. Majdoubeh. "Reimagining Colonialism: Dune Within Postcolonial Science-Fiction." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 13, no. 2 (February 1, 2023): 501–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1302.27.

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This research paper will examine the science-fiction novel Dune as a postcolonial work. Colonial history and literature that have been the central focus of postcolonial studies influenced the structure of many science-fiction novels. One of these was Herbert’s Dune (1965), which carries a colonial formula into a new fictionalized setting. However, very few postcolonial studies cross into the science-fiction novel, and fewer still consider the science-fictional element that sets it apart as a genre. Thus, this article attempts to provide a new perspective on Dune as a postcolonial novel that sets a new premise for our understanding of postcolonialism. In employing the early anticolonial thoughts of Amilcar Cabral and his notion of resistance, this study will trace these anticolonial notions throughout the novel. In addition, it will consider the novel’s science-fictional element of spice and how it proves detrimental in perceiving the novel as a new form of postcolonial narrative.
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Milner, Andrew. "Viral Science Fiction." Extrapolation: Volume 63, Issue 1 63, no. 1 (April 1, 2022): 7–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/extr.2022.3.

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This article begins by explaining how sf as a genre has recently “gone viral.” It then proceeds to a brief overview of the history of pandemic fiction, in the Bible, in the literary canon, and in genre sf. It concludes with a more detailed analysis of Albert Camus’s La Peste (1947), which argues that this novel exhibits many characteristics Darko Suvin attributes to sf. The paper concludes that either La Peste is in fact sf or Suvin’s famous definitions are themselves misconceived.
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Pastourmatzi, Domna. "Researching and Teaching Science Fiction in Greece." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 119, no. 3 (May 2004): 530–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/003081204x20613.

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In the dreams our stuff is made of, Thomas M. Disch talks about the influence and pervasiveness of science Fiction in American culture and asserts the genre's power in “such diverse realms as industrial design and marketing, military strategy, sexual mores, foreign policy, and practical epistemology” (11-12). A few years earlier, Sharona Ben-Tov described science fiction as “a peculiarly American dream”—that is, “a dream upon which, as a nation, we act” (2). Recently, Kim Stanley Robinson has claimed that “rapid technological development on all fronts combined to turn our entire social reality into one giant science fiction novel, which we are all writing together in the great collaboration called history” (1-2). While such diagnostic statements may ring true to American ears, they cannot be taken at face value in the context of Hellenic culture. Despite the unprecedented speed with which the Greeks absorb and consume both the latest technologies (like satellite TV, video, CD and DVD players, electronic games, mobile and cordless phones, PCs, and the Internet) and Hollywood's science fiction blockbuster films, neither technology per se nor science fiction has yet saturated the Greek mind-set to a degree that makes daily life a science-fictional reality. Greek politicians do not consult science fiction writers for military strategy and foreign policy decisions or depend on imaginary scenarios to shape their country's future. Contemporary Hellenic culture does not acquire its national pride from mechanical devices or space conquest. Contrary to the American popular belief that technology is the driving force of history, “a virtually autonomous agent of change” (Marx and Smith xi), the Greek view is that a complex interplay of political, economic, cultural, and technoscientific agencies alters the circumstances of daily life. No hostages to technological determinism, modern Greeks increasingly interface with high-tech inventions, but without locating earthly paradise in their geographic territory and without writing their history or shaping their social reality as “one giant science fiction novel.”
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Debalina Roychowdhury Banerjee. "Revisiting Vampirism: Myth, Mystery, Science, History." Creative Launcher 7, no. 1 (March 4, 2022): 22–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2022.7.1.04.

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Many legends and myths have survived through ages. They also have strong connection with reality of past and present. History, mythology, science, psychology, fiction all is entwined in such a way that it becomes difficult to segregate them from one another. In fact, all these together bring a new meaning to such a subject. True it is and true it shall be that, almost everything that we can think of is connected to many other things. Vampirism is not an exception to that. Though it has been popularized by fictions more, it also has a bleak history, a dreary reality that comes through psychological disorder. The folk beliefs and legends that grew around vampirism is also a matter of real interest. This paper is an attempt to bring the different aspects of vampirism in a nutshell to have a compact idea on the fascinating theme.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "History of science fiction"

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Leperlier, Henry. "Canadian science fiction, a reluctant genre." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0033/NQ61856.pdf.

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Jorgensen, Darren J. "Science fiction and the sublime." University of Western Australia. English, Communication and Cultural Studies Discipline Group, 2005. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2005.0116.

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[Truncated abstract] This thesis makes three assertions. The first is that the sublime is a principal pleasure of science fiction. The second is that the conditions for the emergence of both the sublime and science fiction lie in the modern developments of technology, mass economy and imperialism. Maritime and optical technologies; the imagination that accompanied imperialism; and the influence of capitalism furnished the cognition by which the pleasures of both science fiction and the sublime came into being. The third claim is that a historical conception of the sublime, one that changes according to the different circumstances in which it appears, offers privileged insights onto changes within the genre. To make such extensive claims it has been necessary to make a cognitive map of the development of both the sublime and science fiction. This map reaches from the Ancient Romans, Lucian and Longinus; to Thomas More, Jonathan Swift, Johannes Kepler, Voltaire and Immanuel Kant; to Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Jules Verne and H.G. Wells. This thesis then examines how the features of these fictions mutate in the twentieth-century fiction of A.E. van Vogt, Clifford Simak, Philip K. Dick, Arthur C. Clarke, Ivan Yefremov, the Strugatsky brothers, J.G. Ballard, Pamela Zoline, Ursula Le Guin, Vonda McIntyre, Octavia Butler, Kim Stanley Robinson, Stephen Baxter, William Gibson, Ken MacLeod and Stanislaw Lem. These writers are considered in their own specific periods, and in their national contexts, as they create pleasures that are contingent upon changes to their own worlds. In representing these changes, their fictions defamiliarise the anxieties of the reading subject. They transcend the contradictions of their times with a sublime that betrays its own conditions of transcendence. The deployment of the sublime in these texts offers a moment of critical possibility, as it betrays the fantasies born of a subject's relation to their world
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Beaulé, Sophie. "L'institution de la science-fiction française, 1977-1983." Thesis, McGill University, 1985. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=65469.

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Proietti, Salvatore. "The cyborg, cyberspace, and North American science fiction." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0021/NQ44558.pdf.

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NEWMAN, CHINA RAE. "GENDER PERFORMANCE IN DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/613347.

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This work analyzes the use and portrayal of gender in Jack London’s The Iron Heel (1908), George Orwell’s 1984 (1949), Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1968), and Stephanie Collins’ The Hunger Games (2008), four dystopian works written over a period of 100 years. It questions the reasoning behind the use of gender within each of the texts and looks at the changes in the use and presentation of gendered characters in each of the novels, considering the purpose of each text and the possible reasoning behind gendered portrayals of the characters in each story. Though a chronological analysis of these texts reveals a change from the portrayal of femininity as a singular good to a mindless weakness to a necessary balancing force, feminine characters remain subordinate to and weaker than masculine characters, even as a female protagonist takes the stage in the final novel. Finally, the work questions whether the conventions of the dystopian genre preclude the existence of a feminine dystopian hero or if the reason she has not yet been written is based on a cultural bias towards strong masculinity in main characters of any gender rather than the norms of the dystopian genre.
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Sutton, Summer. "Entangled Bodies: Tracing the Marks of History in Contemporary Science Fiction." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5421.

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Chapter one, “Narrating Entanglement: Posthuman Agency and Subjectivity in Shane Carruth’s Filmography,” considers the resonances of independent filmmaker Shane Carruth’s two SF films, Primer (2004) and Upstream Color (2013) with the ethos of quantum entanglement through close-readings of Primer’s anti-individualistic portrayal of scientific invention and Upstream Color’s metaphorically entangled human-pig character system. Chapter two, “Race and Schrödingers’s Legacy: History is Both Alive and Dead in Hari Kunzru’s White Tears” analyzes the 2017 novel White Tears as a narrative figuration of of the political, racial, and cultural entanglements set in motion by the economic structure of slavery, ultimately arguing that Kunzru’s entangled plotlines and histories critique the entanglement of contemporary U.S. capitalism with its past and present exploitation of black bodies. The third and final chapter, “Problem Child: Untangling the Reproduction Narrative in Lai and Phang’s SF Bildungsromans” uses close readings of two SF bildungsromans, Larissa Lai’s 2002 novel Salt Fish Girl and Jennifer Phang’s 2015 film Advantageous, both of which follow women of color protagonists not permitted to grow up in the ‘right’ ways, to shed light on the instability of a social order simultaneously grounded in the exploitation of marginalized bodies and the illusion of a reproducible, homogenous nation. Ultimately, “Entangled Bodies” uses a literary exploration of quantum entanglement to reveal both the limits of seemingly-totalizing power structures, narrative or otherwise, and the collective possibilities for re-definition that can, in part, be kindled by a favored tool of Western science: the human imagination.
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Chohan, Imran Riaz. "Identity, hyperreality and Science fiction : Matrix and Neuromancer." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för planering och mediedesign, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-5779.

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My Bachelor’s thesis is a comparative analysis between humans and machines in a science fiction novel (Neuromancer) and a movie (Matrix). I explored in these works how the machines used technologies to influence on the humans. I used examples of characters from the text and movie along with the references of other writers writing on the same topic to help convey my message. I explored mainly the identity and reality issues among characters. William Gibson in Neuromancer portrays that technology has become a part of human body. While in the Matrix we see how machines are taking control on humans. In my thesis I started with Neuromancer and write about identity and reality issues of characters and artificial intelligences. In the second part of the thesis I write the same with the characters of the movie Matrix but also I compared these characters with characters of Neuromancer. Some other discussions in my thesis are about hyperreality, simulation, simulacra with reference to mostly Baudrillard. Overall this thesis explores the issues of identity and reality to the characters in the works and also to the readers as well. Key Terms: Identity, Reality, Hyperreality, Simulation, Simulacra.
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Merrifield, Jeff. "Ken Campbell and the Science Fiction Theatre of Liverpool : an analytical history." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.250438.

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Gevers, Nicholas David. "Mirrors of the past : versions of history in science fiction and fantasy." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10511.

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The primary argument of this Thesis is that Science Fiction (SF) is a form of Historical Fiction, one which speculatively appropriates elements of the past in fulfilment of the ideological expectations of its genre readership. Chapter One presents this definition, reconciling it with some earlier definitions of SF and justifying it by means of a comparison between SF and the Historical Novel. Chapter One also identifies SF's three modes of historical appropriation (historical extension, imitation and modification) and the forms of fictive History these construct, including Future History and Alternate History; theories of history, and SF's own ideological changes over time, have helped shape the genre's varied borrowings from the past. Some works of Historical Fantasy share the characteristics of SF set out in Chapter One. The remaining Chapters analyse the textual products of SF's imitation and modification of history, i.e. Future and Alternate Histories. Chapter Two discusses various Future Histories completed or at least commenced before 1960, demonstrating their consistent optimism, their celebration of Science and of heroic individualism, and their tendency to resolve the cyclical pattern of history through an ideal linear simplification or 'theodicy'. Chapter Three shows the much greater ideological and technical diversity of Future Histories after 1960, their division into competing traditional (Libertarian), Posthistoric (pessimistic), and critical utopian categories, an indication of SF's increasing complexity and fragmentation.
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Davis, Ben Jr. "History, Race and Gender in the Science Fiction of Octavia Estelle Butler." The Ohio State University, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392045358.

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Books on the topic "History of science fiction"

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Sciences & science fiction. Paris: Universcience, 2010.

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Bodden, Valerie. Science fiction. Mankato, MN: Creative Education, 2012.

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G, Cunningham Jesse, ed. Science fiction. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 2002.

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Science fiction. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1986.

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Juhani, Hinkkanen, and Ekholm Kai, eds. Science fiction. Helsinki: Kirjastopalvelu, 1990.

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The history of science fiction. Basingstoke [England]: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

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Roberts, Adam. The History of Science Fiction. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230554658.

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Roberts, Adam. The History of Science Fiction. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56957-8.

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Science fiction television: A history. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2004.

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Ron, Miller. The history of science fiction. New York: F. Watts, 2001.

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Book chapters on the topic "History of science fiction"

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Watkins, Susan. "Science Fiction." In The History of British Women’s Writing, 1945–1975, 273–88. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-47736-1_17.

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Baker, Brian, and Nicolas Tredell. "A History of the Histories." In Science Fiction, 25–42. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-47445-2_3.

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McHale, Brian. "3.1.6 Science Fiction." In Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, 235. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/chlel.xi.26mch.

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Roberts, Adam. "Seventeenth-Century Science Fiction." In The History of Science Fiction, 36–63. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230554658_3.

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Roberts, Adam. "Eighteenth-Century Science Fiction." In The History of Science Fiction, 64–87. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230554658_4.

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Roberts, Adam. "Science Fiction 1850–1900." In The History of Science Fiction, 106–28. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230554658_6.

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Roberts, Adam. "21st-Century Science Fiction." In The History of Science Fiction, 479–512. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56957-8_16.

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Roberts, Adam. "Late Twentieth-Century Science Fiction: Multimedia, Visual Science Fiction and Others." In The History of Science Fiction, 326–40. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230554658_14.

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Roberts, Adam. "Prose Science Fiction 1970s–1990s." In The History of Science Fiction, 295–325. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230554658_13.

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Roberts, Adam. "Early Nineteenth-Century Science Fiction." In The History of Science Fiction, 88–105. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230554658_5.

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Conference papers on the topic "History of science fiction"

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Canizares, Galo. "Stranger than Fiction: Artificial Intelligence, Media, and the Domestic Realm." In 105th ACSA Annual Meeting Paper Proceedings. ACSA Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.105.76.

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Alan Kay’s famous soundbite from a 1971 Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) meeting presents a bizarre chicken and egg paradox. It goes like this: which came first, the science fiction representation of the objector the desire for specific objects themselves? In other words, is the plethora of technological advancements a direct result of anthropomorphic inevitabilities or are we simply trying to realize objects, vehicles, and environments we saw in science fiction representations in the mid-twentieth century? In this paper, I will argue that media and literature are equally as responsible as engineering for our current architectural reality. With the rise of Web 2.0, advances in graphics visualization, and their attendant cultural shifts, aspects of contemporary urban life increasingly resemble a science fiction. The pervasiveness of app culture and recent factual and fictional examples of artificial intelligence augmenting the built environment suggest that engineering advancements exist as part of a tight feedback loop between consumer expectations—largely influenced by Hollywood—and scientific discoveries. Therefore, in order to fully understand, historicise, or speculate on the future of interactions between humans and machines, we must first unpack the cycle of fiction-to-fact that typically occurs. Taking the domestic realm as an example, we can identify a series of uncanny, artificially intelligent, technologies which reflect human desires for subservience, assistance, and interconnectedness. Here, AI will serve as a case study through which to analyze the effect of fiction on scientific advancements and their subsequent dissemination into the consumer world, ultimately constituting a history based less on fact and more on media, image, and variable levels of reality.
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Scharmen, Fred. "A Brief Pre-History of Houses Who Tweet." In 105th ACSA Annual Meeting Paper Proceedings. ACSA Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.105.75.

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There are currently only a few houses who use social media. But with the increasing availability of inexpensive hardware, and prolific networked software, the number of houses who actively communicate online in one way or another is sure to grow. An examination of some tweeting house types from within the context of architecture history and theory reveals some models for how this social architecture might develop.This paper shows that tweeting houses raise concerns that are solidly within the set of questions traditionally addressed by architecture. The tweeting house’s existence depends on acts of translation between different media, some managed by a designer, some automated. The tweeting house actively presents social and tectonic affordances that offer opportunities for engagement, functional and otherwise. And finally, tweeting houses raise issues about the public, external representation of a set of private, internal conditions, some of them personal to the house’s occupants, some of them intended for broader reading. This paper will use examples from the history of architecture, adjacent design disciplines, computer science, science fiction, and hybrid example projects that partake of all of these fields, to show that while the house with a social media account is a unique and new techno-architectural possibility, it is not without history or precedent.
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Priest, Gail. "The Now of History: Tomographic and Ficto-Critical Approaches to Writing About Sonic Art." In RE:SOUND 2019 – 8th International Conference on Media Art, Science, and Technology. BCS Learning & Development, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/resound19.9.

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Neagu, Simona nicoleta, and Aniellamihaela Vieriu. "THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS ON YOUNG PEOPLE." In eLSE 2019. Carol I National Defence University Publishing House, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-19-119.

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As stated in the specialized studies, the greatest technological discoveries in the history of mankind will be recorded in the next three decades. Progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI), combined with radical discoveries in hard and software, will inaugurate a new era, which today seems to be science fiction. The existence of artificial intelligence, robots, autonomous vehicles, nanotechnology, biotechnology, and materials science are no longer considered "miracles." A recent study by Dell Technologies says that 85% of jobs in 2030 have not yet been invented, and over the next decade, over 10% of current jobs will be automated. In the world's largest industrial air-conditioning plant in China, 800 robots replaced 24,000 workers at Midea. Intelligent military robots are already present on battlefields - the United States, China and Israel, being world leaders in their field use. There are jobs that will disappear and others will be invented, our skills and competences are constantly changing, the labor market is constantly changing, employers will have other specifications in the job description. In this new world, our relationship with technology will change forever. How will we keep up with these changes? How will we deal with them? In this context, we aim to investigate within focus groups what is the impact of accelerated technological progress on youth at the psychological, social and employability level and which would be the solutions that they propose. The target group will be represented by students of the faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest.
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Shatin, Yurii V. "“Bobok” by Dostoevsky: fiction phenomenon in the journalistic context." In Communication and Cultural Studies: History and Modernity. Novosibirsk State University, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/978-5-4437-1258-1-21-23.

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Kasapakis, Vlasios, and Damianos Gavalas. "Blending history and fiction in a pervasive game prototype." In the 13th International Conference. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2677972.2677981.

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Gyger, Patrick J. "Science Fiction vs. Science Fact." In 54th International Astronautical Congress of the International Astronautical Federation, the International Academy of Astronautics, and the International Institute of Space Law. Reston, Virigina: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/6.iac-03-iaa.8.2.01.

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Landis, Geoffrey. "Spaceflight and Science Fiction." In 50th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition. Reston, Virigina: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/6.2012-202.

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Szpakowska-Loranc, Ernestyna. "Function of time in narration of contemporary cities." In Virtual City and Territory. Barcelona: Centre de Política de Sòl i Valoracions, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/ctv.8056.

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Contemporary perception of time differs significantly from historical one. The contemporary time is speeding, divergent, meticulously quantified with abstract units, disconnected from perception of space. Differences between day and night, physical and digital, far and near are constantly, gradually vanishing. With this new time perception, contemporary urban space has evolved. Cities extend, their centres melt; deallocation, speed and light images explode interior-exterior oppositions. The space aspires to the speed of light. Shizophrenic, kinetic reality, where signifiant leaves signifié is characterized by discrepancies: economic barriers, fences, and incessant opening into virtual reality. Time is a factor joining events in narration and in architecture. Chronology of events is shattered in contemporary literature, introducing strategies of retrospection, anticipation and anachrony. The situation in contemporary architecture is similar. These strategies appear also in contemporary cities: retrospection in historic monuments, anticipation in avant-garde, “science-fiction” buildings and anachrony in non-places on the verge of physical and virtual reality. Lines of events in a plot of a city’s narration has changed. Certain duality of a contemporary city space appears: perception of sheer time in ruins, monuments, and a temporal flow of events-spaces. Along with the speeding urban organism, an idea of slow city spaces has appeared. The idea of a city “tasted” with senses, replacing the terms of acceleration, progress and change with: slowness, reflection, variety, essence; effects of reflective attitude towards reality, traces of resistance against the inevitable loss of beauty in contemporaneity. A phenomenological approach as a response for the speeding city reality. Thisarticle analyses affiliations between the contemporary perception of time, narrative strategies and city space.
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McMillian, Rachel. "Historical Fiction: A Critical Policy Analysis of Teaching Hard History." In 2020 AERA Annual Meeting. Washington DC: AERA, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/1582571.

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Reports on the topic "History of science fiction"

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Blaxter, Tamsin, and Tara Garnett. Primed for power: a short cultural history of protein. TABLE, November 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.56661/ba271ef5.

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Protein has a singularly prominent place in discussions about food. It symbolises fitness, strength and masculinity, motherhood and care. It is the preferred macronutrient of affluence and education, the mark of a conscientious diet in wealthy countries and of wealth and success elsewhere. Through its association with livestock it stands for pastoral beauty and tradition. It is the high-tech food of science fiction, and in discussions of changing agricultural systems it is the pivotal nutrient around which good and bad futures revolve. There is no denying that we need protein and that engaging with how we produce and consume it is a crucial part of our response to the environmental crises. But discussions of these issues are affected by their cultural context—shaped by the power of protein. Given this, we argue that it is vital to map that cultural power and understand its origins. This paper explores the history of nutritional science and international development in the Global North with a focus on describing how protein gained its cultural meanings. Starting in the first half of the 19th century and running until the mid-1970s, it covers two previous periods when protein rose to singular prominence in food discourse: in the nutritional science of the late-19th century, and in international development in the post-war era. Many parallels emerge, both between these two eras and in comparison with the present day. We hope that this will help to illuminate where and why the symbolism and story of protein outpace the science—and so feed more nuanced dialogue about the future of food.
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Dribben, Douglas A. DNA Statistical Evidence and the Ceiling Principle: Science or Science Fiction". Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, March 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada456707.

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Webster, James K. Science Fiction as a Prism for Understanding Geopolitics. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, April 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ad1003712.

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van Boekel, M. A. J. S. Food, facts and fiction : A story about science and perception. Wageningen: Wageningen University & Research, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.18174/503823.

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Smith, Dina Cherise. Exploring the Recognizability and Nature of Media References in Female Science Fiction and Fantasy Fandom Dress. Ames: Iowa State University, Digital Repository, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.31274/itaa_proceedings-180814-1814.

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Weir, Gary E. Oceanography: The Making of a Science - Oral History Component [Weir]. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, September 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada609774.

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Guinot Rodríguez, Enric. ‘The Myth of the Primitive Aborigen’. History against Fiction around the Feudal Colonisation of the Kingdom of Valencia in the Thirteenth Century. Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.21001/itma.2022.16.03.

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Zeidner, Joseph, and Arthur J. Drucker. Behavioral Science in the Army: A Corporate History of the Army Research Institute. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, June 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ad1012467.

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Wiel, S. The science and art of valuing externalities: A recent history of electricity sector evaluations. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), May 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/503480.

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Kwasnik, Ted, Scott P. Carmichael, and Steven C. Isley. An Overview of Technologies for Individual Trip History Collection: Mobility Decision Science Pillar SMART Mobility Consortium. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), January 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1490251.

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