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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPilkington's
Science Fiction and Futurism is evidently a labor of love, and one that offers readers various avenues into the relationships among sf futurist thinking, and technological and scientific innovations...it firmly deserves a place in sf scholarship for its sheer verve, breadth of reference, and love of what sf does." —
Science Fiction Studies"Pilkington's book shines both by being readable and being comprehensive. It is a must-have for all scholars and students of the field." —Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, author of
Star Trek as Myth: Essays on Symbol and Archetype at the Final Frontier"Not simply an encyclopedia of terminology, but a primer for all degrees of specialty in science fiction, brimming with references that bring together two centuries of classic and popular literature, plus movies and television." —Brian Taves, author of
Hollywood Presents Jules Verne: The Father of Science Fiction on ScreenTable of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword by David Brin
- Key and Abbreviations
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part One: The Terms of Science and Its Fictions
- Alter Ego
- Anachronism
- Artificial Intelligence
- Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics
- Atomics
- Bad Code
- BEM (Bug-Eyed Monster)
- Big Dumb Objects
- Bobble
- Chronotransference
- Clarke’s Laws
- Corpsicle
- Cosmogony of the Future
- Cryonics
- Cyberspace
- Death Ray
- Deep Blue
- Doomsday Machine
- Fermis
- First Contact
- Frankenstein Complex
- Gas Giant
- Goldilocks Planet
- “He’s dead, Jim.”
- Internet of Things
- Ion Drive
- Juno Spacecraft
- Kludge
- MacGyver
- Metalaw
- Multiplex Parenting
- Mutant
- Nanotechnology
- Neural Lace
- Pellegrino, Powell and
- Asimov’s Three Laws of Alien Behavior
- Positronic Brain
- Railgun
- Realtime
- Robot
- Robotics
- SETI
- Solar Sail
- Solo Parenting
- Stepford Wives
- Teleportation
- Time Bunny
- Time Machine
- Timequake
- Timeskip
- Timeslip
- Uncanny Valley
- Uplift
- Uterine Replicator
- Utility Fog
- Wolfling
- Part Two: Genre Terms
- Alternate (or Alternative)
- History
- Archetype
- Cassandras
- Fantasy
- Faust
- Fictions of Nuclear Disaster
- Fixup
- Hard SF
- Lost Colony
- Lost World Story
- Monomyth
- Proto–Science Fiction
- Rim World
- Ruritania
- Science Fantasy
- Science Fiction
- Scientific Romance
- Sci-Fi
- Separable Soul
- Speculative Fiction
- Speculative History
- Speculative Nonfiction
- Technothriller
- Works Cited
- Index
