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The role of fiction in both understanding and interpreting the world has recently become an increasingly important topic for many of the human sciences.This volume ofOsirisfocuses on the relationship between a particular genre of storytellingscience fiction (SF), told through a variety of mediaand the history of science. The protagonists of these two enterprises have a lot in common. Both SF and the history of science are oriented towards the (re)construction of unfamiliar worlds; both are fascinated by the ways in which natural and social systems interact; both are critically aware of the different ways in which the social (class, gender, race, sex, species) has inflected the experience of the scientific. Taking a global approach,Presenting Futures Pastexamines the ways in which SF can be used to investigate the cultural status and authority afforded to science at different times and in different places. The essays consider the role played by SF in the history of specific scientifi

Osiris Volume 34 Presenting Futures Past Science

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 09/08/2019
      ISBN13: 9780226680415, 978-0226680415
      ISBN10: 022668041X
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      Book Synopsis
      The role of fiction in both understanding and interpreting the world has recently become an increasingly important topic for many of the human sciences.This volume ofOsirisfocuses on the relationship between a particular genre of storytellingscience fiction (SF), told through a variety of mediaand the history of science. The protagonists of these two enterprises have a lot in common. Both SF and the history of science are oriented towards the (re)construction of unfamiliar worlds; both are fascinated by the ways in which natural and social systems interact; both are critically aware of the different ways in which the social (class, gender, race, sex, species) has inflected the experience of the scientific. Taking a global approach,Presenting Futures Pastexamines the ways in which SF can be used to investigate the cultural status and authority afforded to science at different times and in different places. The essays consider the role played by SF in the history of specific scientifi

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