A compelling, fully illustrated account of the worldwide phenomenon
of science fiction as depicted in film, literature and art, and the
scientific advances and imagination behind it. Drawing on a wide
range of examples from the literary and visual canons - short
stories, novels, films, television programmes, video games, graphic
novels, artworks and more - in both cult and popular culture, this
extensively illustrated book examines how science fiction has
provided a human response to science, exploring every reaction from
complacency to exhilaration, and from hope to terror. Across five
chapters this volume reviews the role played by science fiction in
exploring our world and a multitude of ideas about our relationship
with the human condition. This encompasses a fascinating range of
themes - machines, travel, aliens (the Other), communication,
threats and anxiety. Featuring a range of essays by experts on the
subject as well as interviews with well-known science-fiction
authors and reproductions of classic ephemera, graphics and objects
throughout, it also focuses on the darker elements of this
fascinating genre - the anxieties, fears, dystopias, monsters and
apocalypses that have populated science fiction from the beginning.
Ultimately, science fiction asks what makes us human, and what lies
in the future to test, threaten and even destroy humanity. This
publication has these questions at its core, making it especially
relevant for a contemporary readership in an age preoccupied with
the climate emergency, the coronavirus pandemic, the development of
nuclear missiles and military technologies, and other global
challenges.
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