The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction
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The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction

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The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction

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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.

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Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9780819571526
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism in Science Fiction
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Dedication
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Introduction: Science Fiction and This Moment
  9. First Beauty: Fictive Neology
  10. Second Beauty: Fictive Novums
  11. Third Beauty: Future History
  12. Fourth Beauty: Imaginary Science
  13. Fifth Beauty: The Science-Fictional Sublime
  14. Sixth Beauty: The Science-Fictional Grotesque
  15. Seventh Beauty: The Technologiade
  16. Concluding Unscientific Postscript: The Singularity and Beyond
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index
  20. About the Author