{"product_id":"science-fiction-isbn-9780262539999","title":"Science Fiction","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow science fiction has been a tool for understanding and living through rapid technological change.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe world today seems to be slipping into a science fiction future. We have phones that speak to us, cars that drive themselves, and connected devices that communicate with each other in languages we don't understand. Depending the news of the day, we inhabit either a technological utopia or \u003ci\u003eBrave New World \u003c\/i\u003enightmare. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge surveys the uses of science fiction. It focuses on what is at the core of all definitions of  science fiction: a vision of the world made otherwise and what possibilities might flow from such otherness.Series Foreword   vii\u003cbr\u003e 1 Introduction: Whose Science Fiction? 1\u003cbr\u003e 2 Th e Utopian Tradition 19\u003cbr\u003e 3 Futurology and Speculative Design 37\u003cbr\u003e 4 Th e Colonial Imagination 57\u003cbr\u003e 5 Robots, AI, and Transhumanism 75\u003cbr\u003e 6 Genomics, the Microbiome, and Posthumanism 97\u003cbr\u003e 7 Environment, Climate Change, and the\u003cbr\u003e Anthropocene 117\u003cbr\u003e 8 Economics and Financialization 137\u003cbr\u003e 9 Conclusion: Living in a Science- Fictional World 155\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments 171\u003cbr\u003e Glossary 173\u003cbr\u003e Notes 177\u003cbr\u003e Further Reading 193\u003cbr\u003e Index 197Sherryl Vint is Professor of Science Fiction Media Studies at University of California, Riverside. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eBodies of Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAnimal Alterity\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eScience Fiction: A Guide for the Perplexed\u003c\/i\u003e, coauthor of the \u003ci\u003eRoutledge Concise History of Science Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Routledge Companion to Science Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e (2009).","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299731427557,"sku":"NP9780262539999","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262539999.jpg?v=1767736199","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/science-fiction-isbn-9780262539999","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}