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Science Fiction (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)

By Sherryl Vint

Book information

Publisher
The MIT Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9780262539999, 0262539993
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1111998 bytes)
Pages
224\70
Library
Mobilism
Time added
2023-11-03 07:05:30

Description

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.

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