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Between Science and Society: Charting the Space of Science Fiction

Between Science and Society: Charting the Space of Science Fiction

Belle, Douglas A. Van
Trepanier, Lee

Hardcover

Series: Politics, Literature, & Film

Literary CriticismGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1793605734
ISBN13: 9781793605733
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Dec 10 2020
Pages: 230
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Between Science and Society: Charting the Space of Science Fiction, Douglas A. Van Belle uses interviews with 24 science fiction authors to analyze the conceptual space that science fiction occupies between science and society. Using these interviews, Van Belle studies the similarities and differences between the academic and professional understandings of the genre. Between Science and Society arguesthat, for authors, all of the aspects of the genre that are emphasized by academics, such as science communication and depictions of scientists, are secondary to the artistic effort to entertain through storytelling. Through his interviews, Van Belle explores both the genre's place in relation to science and society and key elements to surviving as a professional science fiction author. Van Belle creates a definition of science fiction based on the creative ideals expressed by these authors and compared to those that arise from the academic perspective, showing that academics are struggling to engage one of the two central ideals of the genre.

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