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Science fiction, biotechnology and the shadow of September 11. (Philosophy & Ideas).
THE EMERGENCE of science fiction (or "SF") as a distinct literary genre in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was occasioned by the scientific and industrial revolutions, which encouraged speculation about extraordinary technological innovations and future societies radically different from the present. That, however, does not entail that SF must be optimistic about science and technology, or about the future societies that it imagines. On the contrary, the genre's history shows strong and continuing cautionary impulses, often including scepticism about scientific and technological advancement. Science fiction, then, need not be, and often is not, pro-science ...
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...That's how some prominent science fiction writers jeeringly pronounce...lot of people still think of science fiction as robots and ray guns," says Christopher McKitterick. "Yet science fiction these days is such a diverse...
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