The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction (Paperback)

As the world undergoes daily transformations through the application of technoscience to every aspect of life, science fiction has become an essential mode of imagining the horizons of possibility. However much science fiction texts vary in artistic quality and intellectual sophistication, they share in a mass social energy and a desire to imagine a collective future for the human species and the world. At this moment, a strikingly high proportion of films, commercial art, popular music, video and computer games, and non-genre fiction have become 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 technsocience's development into a global regime.

General

Imprint:	Wesleyan University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2011
First published:	February 2011
Authors:	Istvan Csicsery-Ronay
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	336
ISBN-13:	978-0-8195-7092-5
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-8195-7092-3
Barcode:	9780819570925

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