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Science Fiction and Philosophy By:"Susan Schneider" Published on 2016-03-07 by John Wiley & Sons Featuring numerous updates and enhancements, Science Fiction and Philosophy, 2nd Edition, presents a collection of readings that utilize concepts developed from science fiction to explore a variety of classic and contemporary philosophical issues. Uses science fiction to address a series of classic and contemporary philosophical issues, including many raised by recent scientific developments Explores questions relating to transhumanism, brain enhancement, time travel, the nature of the self, and the ethics of artificial intelligence Features numerous updates to the popular and highly acclaimed first edition, including new chapters addressing the cutting-edge topic of the technological singularity Draws on a broad range of science fiction’s more familiar novels, films, and TV series, including I, Robot, The Hunger Games, The Matrix, Star Trek, Blade Runner, and Brave New World ...

What Is Fiction For? By:"Bernard Harrison" Published on 2014-12-29 by Indiana University Press How can literature, which consists of nothing more than the description of imaginary events and situations, offer any insight into the workings of \ This Book was ranked 24 by Google Books for keyword fiction.

Science-fiction, the Early Years By:"Everett Franklin Bleiler","Richard Bleiler" Published on 1990-01-01 by Kent State University Press Contains author, title, and publishing information, and plot summaries This Book was ranked 11 by Google Books for keyword fiction.

The Musicalization of Fiction By:"Werner Wolf" Published on 1999 by Rodopi This volume is a pioneering study in the theory and history of the imitation of music in fiction and constitutes an important contribution to current intermediality research.Starting with a comparison of basic similarities and differences between literature and music, the study goes on to provide outlines of a general theory of intermediality and its fundamental forms, in which a more specialized theory of the musicalization of (narrative) literature based on contemporary narratology and a typology of the forms of musico-literary intermediality are embedded. It also addresses the question of how to recognize a musicalized fiction when reading one and why Sterne's Tristram Shandy, contrary to what has been previously said, is not to be regarded as a musicalized fiction.In its historical part, the study explores forms and functions of experiments with the musicalization of fiction in English literatu...

Reading by Starlight By:"Damien Broderick" Published on 2005-06-29 by Routledge Reading by Starlight explores the characteristics in the writing, marketing and reception of science fiction which distinguish it as a genre. Damien Broderick explores the postmodern self-referentiality of the sci-fi narrative, its intricate coded language and discursive `encyclopaedia'. He shows how, for perfect understanding, sci-fi readers must learn the codes of these imaginary worlds and vocabularies, all the time picking up references to texts by other writers. Reading by Starlight includes close readings of paradigmatic cyberpunk texts and writings by SF novelists and theorists including Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Brian Aldiss, Patrick Parrinder, Kim Stanley Robinson, John Varley, Roger Zelazny, William Gibson, Fredric Jameson and Samuel R. Delaney. This Book was ranked 15 by Google Books for keyword science fiction.

Fact, Fiction, and Forecast By:"Nelson Goodman" Published on 1983 by Harvard University Press Here, in a new edition, is Nelson Goodman's provocative philosophical classic--a book that, according to Science, \ This Book was ranked 19 by Google Books for keyword fiction.

The Big Book of Science Fiction By:"Jeff VanderMeer","Ann VanderMeer" Published on 2016-07-12 by Vintage Quite possibly the greatest science fiction collection of all time--past, present, and future! What if life was neverending? What if you could change your body to adapt to an alien ecology? What if the pope were a robot? Spanning galaxies and millennia, this must-have anthology showcases classic contributions from H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Octavia E. Butler, and Kurt Vonnegut, alongside a century of the eccentrics, rebels, and visionaries who have inspired generations of readers. Within its pages, you'll find beloved worlds of space opera, hard SF, cyberpunk, the New Wave, and more. Learn about the secret history of science fiction, from titans of literature who also wrote SF to less well-known authors from more than twenty-five countries, some never before translated into English. In The Big Book of Science Fiction, literary power couple Ann and Jeff Va...

The Rhetoric of Fiction By:"Wayne C. Booth" Published on 2010-05-15 by University of Chicago Press The first edition of The Rhetoric of Fiction transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form works, how authors make novels accessible, and how readers recreate texts, and its concepts and terms—such as \ This Book was ranked 13 by Google Books for keyword fiction.

Locating Science Fiction By:"Andrew Milner" Published on 2012 by Liverpool University Press In Locating Science Fiction, Andrew Milner looks at science fiction within the context of a host of other genres—including fantasy, romance, and the thriller—and explores the historical and geographic contexts of science fiction's emergence and development. Bringing in Raymond Williams's cultural materialism, Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of culture, and Franco Moretti's application of world systems to literary studies, he offers a persuasive, synthetic, and ultimately new mode of science fiction analysis that will become essential reading. This Book was ranked 6 by Google Books for keyword fiction.

Science-fiction By:"Everett Franklin Bleiler","Richard Bleiler" Published on 1998-01 by Kent State University Press Complementing Science-Fiction: The Early Years, which surveys Science Fiction books from its beginnings through to 1930, this volume covers all science-fiction printed in the genre magazines - Amazing, Astounding and Wonder, along with offshoots and minor magazines - from 1926 through 1936. This Book was ranked 16 by Google Books for keyword science fiction.

How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy By:"Orson Scott Card" Published on 2001-09-15 by Writer's Digest Books Offers tips and advice on writing science fiction, discussing the rules of fiction, and how to structure a successful story. This Book was ranked 31 by Google Books for keyword fiction.

Decoding Gender in Science Fiction By:"Brian Attebery" Published on 2002 by Psychology Press First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. This Book was ranked 35 by Google Books for keyword fiction.

A Companion to Science Fiction By:"David Seed" Published on 2008-04-15 by John Wiley & Sons A Companion to Science Fiction assembles essays by an international range of scholars which discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers. This Companion conveys the scale and variety of science fiction. Shows how science fiction has been used as a means of debating cultural issues. Essays by an international range of scholars discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers. Addresses general topics, such as the history and origins of the genre, its engagement with science and gender, and national variations of science fiction around the English-speaking world. Maps out connections between science fiction, television, the cinema, virtual reality technology, and other aspects of the culture. Includes a section focusing on major figures, such as H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, and Ursula Le Guin. Offers close readings of particular no...

The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction By:"Justine Larbalestier" Published on 2002 by Wesleyan University Press How women and feminism helped to shape science fiction in America. This Book was ranked 5 by Google Books for keyword science fiction.