... This study proposes that science fiction (sci-fi), a specific entertainment genre or theme, can facilitate self-transcendence (i.e., moving beyond self-boundaries) by inducing epistemic humility (i.e., awareness of one’s epistemic limits accompanied by epistemic openness). Through increasing self...

.... embryo selection forensic genetics genetic discrimination heritability polygenic scores science and society science fiction NIH 10.13039/100000002 R35 GM137758 The 1997 film Gattaca, written and directed by Andrew Niccol, envisions a “not-too-distant” future in which predictions made...

...Adam Irish; Nicole Sherman; Levi Watts 23 01 2023 Abstract Several recently published international relations and criminal justice writings, textbooks, and supplements focus on using science fiction and fantasy texts to teach social science theories. This article investigates how science fiction...

... and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Abstract Science fiction has a lengthy history of irreligion. In part, this relates to its titular...

... demonstrate how Lynch asserts himself in this middle world, how he succeeds in honouring the source material while also meeting his authorial desire to reinvent it, to decouple from the archive and ‘go off the track’. Dune David Lynch Frank Herbert adaptation science fiction film novel Observing...

...Cynthia Boaz Research in psychology also submits that reading speculative fiction stimulates moral imagination ( Bury 2013 ). A recent study from two cognitive scientists suggests that science fiction reading promotes abstract thought and improves theory of mind, key dimensions in the development...

... and populist nationalism. Dick reminds us, through both the novel and series, that we face our own existential choices in relating to the mediated sacred texts that shape our worlds. As another creator of dystopian alternative histories has observed, the supposedly predictive power of science fiction is always...

... lifted wholesale from science fiction, a fantasy that nevertheless holds out the promise of a revised reality (see Brown [2002 ]). Abstract This article concerns the relationship of politics to speculative and fantastical fiction. Surveying work on aesthetics, media analysis, and science fiction (SF...

... by Blackwell Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved 2011 arsenate-based life phosphate replacement by arsenate arsenic resistance arsenate-based nucleic acids science fiction arsenate bioaccumulation This is the newest example following when Nature was absurd in publishing favorable reports...

...This Introduction introduces Gothic science fiction as a genre and discusses the text as a project to examine Gothic science fiction historically as well as to distinguish its textual forms. The chapters in this compilation provides sample writings published over the past sixty years, and reflect...

...This chapter states states that science fiction projects a future by the rational extrapolation of the present: it is thus a critical, potentially utopian, but always political genre. The chapter looks into some Gothic science fiction writings and further discusses the hybridity and the spatial...

... of modernity's dependence upon barely understood medical magics’, and becomes a symbolic figure in Gothic science fiction. diseases 28 Days Later film zombies film biomedicine Bishop Kyle I Am Legend film Shelley Mary Frankenstein 28 Weeks Later film Bey Hakim cybernetics Foucault...

...This chapter offers a literary criticism of David Conway's horror novel Metal Sushi. It discusses the corruption in the genre of Gothic science fiction and examines the cultural allusion, story and intertextual references in form of detective narratives and the New Weird...

...This chapter offers a literary criticism of Toni Morrison's works in Gothic science fiction. It discusses the generic transformations in conjunction with the hybrid spaces in the amalgam of narratives. The chapter further notes that ‘enchantment’ is an adaptation of Darko Suvin's cognitive...

...This chapter offers a literary criticism of the steampunk graphic novel The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. It provides an overview of the creation of the genre through the fusion of the Gothic and science fiction, and an analysis on the characterisation of Griffin and Hyde...

...The Vietnam War has been a central theme in American science fiction, which, according to H. Bruce Franklin, shaped and was reshaped by the conflict. Filmmakers were initially reluctant to portray the Vietnam War in their works, with the pro-military The Green Berets (John Wayne...

... redemption in the English countryside. This chapter examines English science fiction written by Keith Roberts, Christopher Priest, D. G. Compton, Garry Kilworth, Michael Moorcock and Robert Holdstock, along with the James Bond films and television series Doctor Who and 1990...

...In The Will to Knowledge (1976), Michel Foucault describes the creation of the homosexual in 1869. The word ‘homosexual’, coined by Karl Maria Kertbeny in 1869, is rarely used in science fiction during the 1970s. Rather than theorising an authentic homosexual identity, science...

...In 1976, Thomas M. Disch described science fiction as a branch of children's literature because of its intellectual, emotional and moral limitations. Science fiction authors such as Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury wrote for children and adults. The emergence of the Young Adult...

...This chapter focuses on science fiction that represents architecture, namely novels by Robert Silverberg (Tower of Glass and The World Inside) and J. G. Ballard (Crash, Concrete Island, and High-Rise) as well...