«Science Fiction and the Prediction of the Future: Essays on Foresight and Fallacy»
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Introduction: Of Futures Imagined, and Futures Inhabited
GARY WESTFAHL 1 I. Cosmic Visions 1. Pitfalls of Prophecy: Why Science Fiction So Often Fails to Predict the Future GARY WESTFAHL 9 2. Emotional Dimensions of Transmimetic Fiction: Emotion, Aesthetics, Ethics, and Rhetoric in Tales of Tomorrow’s Science, Technology, and Technoscience RICHARD L. MCKINNEY 23 3. The Internet and the Anagogical Myths of Science Fiction KIRK HAMPTON AND CAROL MACKAY 41 4. Technobodies and the Anxieties of Performance VERONICA HOLLINGER 52 5. Places of Alterity in Science Fiction RICHARD L. MCKINNEY 64 II. The Practice of Prophecy 6. Future City Toyko: 1909 and 2009 SHARALYN ORBAUGH 84 7. Rebooting “A Logic Named Joe”: Exploring the Multiple Influences of a Strangely Predictive Mid–1940s Short Story DAVID L. FERRO AND ERIC G. SWEDIN 104 8. Victims of a Globalized, Radicalized, Technologized World, or, Why the Beatles Needed Help! LYNNE LUNDQUIST 120 9. “A Journey Beyond the Stars”: 2001: A Space Odyssey and the Psychedelic Revolution in 1960s Science Fiction ROB LATHAM 128 10. The Endless Odyssey: The 2001 Saga and Its Inability to Predict Humanity’s Future GARY WESTFAHL 135 11. Intercultural and Interface: Kung Fu as Abstract Machine WONG KIN YUEN 171 12. Post-Genre Cinemas and Post-Colonial Attitude: Hong Kong Meets Paris VÉRONIQUE FLAMBARD-WEISBART 189 13. Writing, Weaving, and Technology AMY KIT-SZE CHAN 198 14. The Technological Contours of Contemporary Science Fiction, or, The Science Fiction That Science Fiction Doesn’t See BROOKS LANDON 213 15. Thinking About the Smart Wireless World GREGORY BENFORD 220 Bibliography of Works Related to Science Fiction and the Prediction of the Future 229 Bibliography of Other Works Cited in the Text 241 About the Contributors 253 Index 255 [!] содержание и порядок произведений может не соответствовать действительности |
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