Titlebook: Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism; Beyond the Golden Ru Elana Gomel Book 2014 Palgrave Macmillan, a divisio

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Stanislaw Lem and the Holocaust of Humanism. In the essay, he compares SF to pornography, accuses it of being anti-scientific, and advises its readers . to acquaint themselves with any actual science “unless they are willing to free their imagination from its imprisonment” by the genre (1984: 208). This was only one of the several attacks th

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Introduction: Why Do We Need Aliens?ETI project has been fruitlessly searching for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence for more than fifty years.. We are longing for the good news that we are not alone in the Universe but when alien ships do land, we run away screaming — at least, if the movies are to be believed. Torn between attraction and revulsion, we are watching the skies.

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“The Force that Gives us Meaning”: Alien Invasion and Search for Redemptionht in the crossfire of the mighty machines, the incomprehensible magnitude of the destruction, and the sublimity of irresistible power. Rendered through an almost cinematic montage of many partial and distorted viewpoints, this chapter feels strikingly modern.

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Idylls of the Same: Soviet SF, Cosmic Humanism, and Escape from History Russia from itself; who cares whether they were seen as enemies or as space brothers in the long-ago age of fake enthusiasm and true heroism, of sputniks and Gulags, of “cosmonauts and cannibals” (Moynahan 3)?

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The Human Trinity: What Makes Us Other?)? What happens to the most basic constituents of our humanity — worship, speech, consciousness — when the abyss of the Other returns our probing gaze? Reflected in alien eyes, we may become stronger or weaker, more or less powerful. But one thing is certain: we will become other than human.

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