Science Fiction

ISBN-13: 9780262539999 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 224 str.

Sherryl Vint

Spis treści

Series Foreword vii
1 Introduction: Whose Science Fiction? 1
2 Th e Utopian Tradition 19
3 Futurology and Speculative Design 37
4 Th e Colonial Imagination 57
5 Robots, AI, and Transhumanism 75
6 Genomics, the Microbiome, and Posthumanism 97
7 Environment, Climate Change, and the
Anthropocene 117
8 Economics and Financialization 137
9 Conclusion: Living in a Science- Fictional World 155
Acknowledgments 171
Glossary 173
Notes 177
Further Reading 193
Index 197

O autorze

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).