科学的な空想にもとづいたフィクションとして、20世紀にはその地位を確立したSF小説。科学技術や宇宙、エイリアン、理想郷などをテーマとして描かれることの多いジャンルながら、政治や社会問題などに取り組んだ作品もあり、その幅は広がる一方です。この分野で最も影響力のある作家たちを例にとり、小説だけでなくドラマや映画に見られるSFの世界を探ります。
Science Fiction has proved notoriously difficult to define. It has been explained as a combination of romance, science and prophecy; as a genre based on an imagined alternative to the reader's environment; and as a form of fantastic fiction and historical literature.
It has also been argued that science fiction narratives are the most engaged, socially relevant, and responsive to the modern technological environment. This Very Short Introduction doesn't offer a history of science fiction, but instead ties examples of science fiction to different historical moments, in order to demonstrate how science fiction has evolved over time.
David Seed looks not only at literature, but also at drama and poetry, as well as film. Examining recurrent themes in science fiction he looks at voyages into space, the concept of the alien and alternative social identities, the role of technology in science fiction, and its relation to time - in the past, present, and future.
Introduction
1: Voyages into space
2: Alien encounters
3: Science fiction and technology
4: Utopias and dystopias
5: Fictions of time
6: The field of science fiction
"brief yet thorough" - The Guardian
ISBN : 9780199557455
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