Titlebook: Science Fiction, Ethics and the Human Condition; Christian Baron,Peter Nicolai Halvorsen,Christine Book 2017 Springer International Publi

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Science Fiction at the Far Side of Technology: Vernor Vinge’s Singularity Thesis Versus the Limits ome in block-buster movies such as . (1999) and . (1984) and a number of science fiction novels, such as William Gibson’s . (1984) and William Thomas Quick’s trilogy . (1988), . (1989), and . (1990) (see Esterbrook 2012, for further references and analysis of the science fiction literature). Furtherm

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A Greenhouse on Marsments: Terraforming and modification of the planet to an Earth-like state to accommodate the colonists, or enclosed colonies where the establishment of Earth-like conditions is confined to buildings and constructions separated from the hostile planetary environment..In the short run, confined settle

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Excitotoxin

Our Serial (and Parallel) Selves: Identity in the Age of the Transhumanfiction takes the notion of fragmentation of identity and multiple selves to the extreme in stories of simulation, uploaded personalities and changes to the physical substrate. Using examples from cutting-edge SF writers like Charles Stross and Greg Egan, I examine how science fiction presents a lit

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Religion in a World of Androids and Aliens: Life and Death in Ridley Scott’s , and ,y manifests as part of modernity in societies with a strong adherence to a natural scientific world view; it is often filled with techno-scientific novelties that drive the stories toward fruition; and, tellingly enough, the most prominent theoretical thinker on science fiction (Darko Suvin) is an a

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From Isolationism to Globalism: An Overview of Politics and Ethics in the Hollywood Science Fiction at how the genre can be understood as raising ethical questions concerning US foreign policy, security, international relations, economics, and the environment. In carrying out this aim, my approach is best described as an analytical and historical overview, tracing the development of Hollywood scie