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020 $a9780819568892 (cloth : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aPN3433.5$b.C75 2008
082 00 $a809.3/8762$222
100 1 $aCsicsery-Ronay, Istvan,$cJr.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2007045941
245 14 $aThe seven beauties of science fiction /$cIstvan Csicser-Ronay, Jr.
260 $aMiddletown, Conn. :$bWesleyan University Press,$c[2008], ©2008.
300 $axi, 323 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 267-315) and index.
505 00 $gIntroduction.$tScience Fiction and This Moment -- $gFirst Beauty.$tFictive Neology -- $gSecond Beauty.$tFictive Novums -- $gThird Beauty.$tFuture History -- $gFourth Beauty.$tImaginary Science -- $gFifth Beauty.$tThe Science-Fictional Sublime -- $gSixth Beauty.$tThe Science-Fictional Grotesque -- $gSeventh Beauty.$tThe Technologiade -- $tConcluding Unscientific Postscript: The Singularity and Beyond.
520 1 $a"As the world undergoes daily transformations through the application of technoscience to every aspect of life, science fiction has become an essential mode of imagining the horizons of possibility. However much science fiction texts vary in artistic quality and intellectual sophistication, they share in a mass social energy and a desire to imagine a collective future for the human species and the world. At this moment, a strikingly high proportion of films, commercial art, popular music, video and computer games, and non-genre fiction have become 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 technsocience's development into a global regime."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aScience fiction$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118631
650 0 $aScience fiction$xPhilosophy.
852 00 $bmil$hPN3433.5$i.C75 2008