From the Publisher: What does our favorite science fiction tell us about the culture of science? What do stories of cyborg women and genetic engineering show us about how science and values interact and how science and politics affect each other? In...
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From the Publisher: What does our favorite science fiction tell us about the culture of science? What do stories of cyborg women and genetic engineering show us about how science and values interact and how science and politics affect each other? In SciFi in the Mind's Eye, leading scholars look at the way science fiction informs and inspires contemporary research in science and technology, and how scientific breakthroughs spur authors on to yet more creative science fiction narratives. Alongside investigations into the meaning of science fiction, SciFi in the Mind's Eye gives us previously unpublished 'interventions' by acclaimed science fiction authors L. Timmel Duchamp, Nicola Griffith, Nancy Kress, Terry Bisson, and Stanislaw Lem.
Race through the alpha quadrant : species and destiny on Star Trek / Harvey Cormier -- The island of Dr. Moreau : interpretation of images of race and species / Naomi Zack -- It's in the meat : science, fiction, and the politics of ignorance / Nancy McHugh -- How to do things with ideas / L. Timmel Duchamp -- Pygmalion's legacy : cyborg women in science fiction / Janet Vertesi -- Tepper's republic : feminist separatism and the question of essence / Edrie Sobstyl -- Clone mothers and others : uncanny families / Stephanie S. Turner -- Embodying change : (r)evolutionary theories of an alien synthesis / Tess Williams -- Identity and SF : story as science and fiction / Nicola Griffith -- Sciencepunk : the influence of informed science fiction on virtual reality research / Jeremy N. Bailenson ... [et al.] -- Fictitious contagions : computer viruses in the science fiction of the 1970s / Jussi Parikka -- After the end of the world : critiques of technology in post-apocalypse literature / Andrew Pavelich -- Ethics, science, and science fiction / Nancy Kress -- Modest witnesses? feminist stories of science in fiction and theory / Helen Merrick -- Cracking the code : genomics in documented fantasies and fantastic documentaries / Marina Levina -- Knowing, being, and the reality police : science fiction as science studies / Dennis Desroches -- Between garlic and eternity : fragments from an interview with Stanisaw Lem / Ewa Lipska -- Cognitive constraints on imagining other worlds / E. Thomas Lawson -- After the space age : science, fiction, and possibility / Martin Parker -- Learning from Ender's game : childhood, education, and war / Margret Grebowicz
