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Future Present: Ethics and/as Science Fiction. By MICHAEL PINSKY. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003. 215 pp. 34 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8386-3924-0.
The mode, Michael Pinsky suggests, in which we anticipate Otherness is through anticipation and speculation: the motive engines of science fiction. In this two-part text Space and Time are considered as aspects of the theoretical frameworks by which we construct ethics; then science fictions and proto-ethical systems are examined. Readers are encouraged to begin with whichever section they wish. The final chapter links both parts....
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