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Fluid Futures: Science Fiction and Potentiality


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How does science fiction imagine forms of life that are plausible, yet radically different from what we know? Fluid Futures explores how science fiction envisions an open and evolving future. Rather than predicting what will happen, science fiction presents possibilities — showing how developments already emerging in the present might unfold in surprising and transformative ways. As Rod Serling once said, science fiction is “the improbable made possible.” This book delves into three core techniques that science fiction uses to address futurity: extrapolation, speculation, and fabulation. Through detailed examples, Fluid Futures demonstrates how science fiction offers thought-provoking scenarios that challenge our present-day assumptions and open new ways of imagining the future. It also considers how the genre reshapes our understanding of time, embraces fictionality, and projects images of potential worlds that are both possible and difficult to grasp. Instead of offering a unified theory of science fiction, it emphasizes how science fiction itself theorizes and reimagines concepts we've taken for granted. Key Features: - Exploration of science fiction’s methods for imagining the future: extrapolation, speculation, and fabulation - Concrete examples from literature and film illustrating how the future might diverge from the present - Discussion of how science fiction rethinks time and narrative to project possible worlds - Emphasizes how science fiction texts propose new theories rather than adhering to traditional theoretical frameworks

About the Author :
Steven Shaviro is the DeRoy Professor of English at Wayne State University. His books include Connected, Or, What It Means To Live in the Network Society (2003), Post-Cinematic Affect (2010), The Universe of Things (2014), and No Speed Limit: Three Essays on Accelerationism (2014). He blogs at The Pinocchio Theory website.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781915672476
  • Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
  • Publisher Imprint: Repeater Books
  • Edition: New edition
  • No of Pages: 424
  • ISBN-10: 1915672473
  • Publisher Date: 13 Aug 2024
  • Binding: Digital download
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Science Fiction and Potentiality


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