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Author |
: Marshall B. Tymn |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 2019-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000639070 |
ISBN-13 |
: 100063907X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Research Guide to Science Fiction Studies by : Marshall B. Tymn
Academic attention to science fiction and fantasy began in 1958, when the Modern Language Association scheduled its first seminar on science fiction at its New York meeting. Over the years science fiction emerged as a popular subject that achieved critical attention and acceptance as an academic discipline. A Research Guide to Science Fiction Studies, originally published in 1977, is designed to provide the reader – whether they be scholar, teacher, librarian, or fan – with a comprehensive listing of the important research tools that have been published in the United States and England through 1976. The volume contains over 400 selected, annotated entries covering both general and specialized sources, including general surveys, histories, genre studies, author studies, bibliographies, and indices, which span the entire range of science fiction and fantasy scholarship.
Author |
: Frederik Pohl |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 1981 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015013317477 |
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: |
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: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Science Fiction, Studies in Film by : Frederik Pohl
Author |
: Anindita Banerjee |
Publisher |
: Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1787075931 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781787075931 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Science Fiction Circuits of the South and East by : Anindita Banerjee
The first collection of its kind, this anthology documents a radically different geography and history of science fiction in the world. Focusing on the extensive cultural networks across the global South and East, the essays explore transnational networks and exchange of ideas between the Carribean, Latin America, African America, Russia, and Asia.
Author |
: Richard D. Mullen |
Publisher |
: Boston : Gregg Press |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 1976 |
ISBN-10 |
: UVA:X000419441 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Science-fiction Studies by : Richard D. Mullen
Author |
: Ted Chiang |
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Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1596063173 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781596063174 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Lifecycle of Software Objects by : Ted Chiang
What's the best way to create artificial intelligence? In 1950, Alan Turing wrote, "Many people think that a very abstract activity, like the playing of chess, would be best. It can also be maintained that it is best to provide the machine with the best sense organs that money can buy, and then teach it to understand and speak English. This process could follow the normal teaching of a child. Things would be pointed out and named, etc. Again I do not know what the right answer is, but I think both approaches should be tried." The first approach has been tried many times in both science fiction and reality. In this new novella, at over 30,000 words, his longest work to date, Ted Chiang offers a detailed imagining of how the second approach might work within the contemporary landscape of startup companies, massively-multiplayer online gaming, and open-source software. It's a story of two people and the artificial intelligences they helped create, following them for more than a decade as they deal with the upgrades and obsolescence that are inevitable in the world of software. At the same time, it's an examination of the difference between processing power and intelligence, and of what it means to have a real relationship with an artificial entity.
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: Richard D. Mullen |
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: 1976 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:610371269 |
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: |
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: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Science Fiction Studies by : Richard D. Mullen
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: 2005 |
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: LCCN:73644793 |
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: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Science Fiction Studies by :
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Total Pages |
: 335 |
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: 1978 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:496061158 |
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: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Science-fiction Studies by :
Author |
: Istvan Csicsery-Ronay |
Publisher |
: Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages |
: 337 |
Release |
: 2012-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780819571526 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0819571520 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction by : Istvan Csicsery-Ronay
This major critical work from one of the preeminent voices in science fiction scholarship reframes the genre as a way of understanding today’s world. As the application of technoscience increasingly transforms every aspect of life, science fiction has become an essential mode of imagining the horizons of possibility. Though the broad scope of science fiction may vary in artistic quality and sophistication, it shares a desire to imagine a collective future for the human species and the world. A strikingly high proportion of today’s films, commercial art, popular music, video games, and non-genre fiction are what Csicsery-Ronay calls “science fictional” —stimulating science-fictional habits of mind. We no longer treat science fiction as merely a genre-engine producing formulaic effects, but as a mode of awareness, which frames experiences as if they were aspects of science fiction. The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction describes science fiction as a constellation of seven diverse cognitive attractions that are particularly formative of science-fictionality. These are the “seven beauties” of the title: fictive neology, fictive novums, future history, imaginary science, the science-fictional sublime, the science-fictional grotesque, and the Technologiade, or the epic of technoscience’s development into a global regime.
Author |
: Roger Luckhurst |
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Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1110922207 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Science Fiction Studies by : Roger Luckhurst