Science Fiction and Futurism

Their Terms and Ideas

Ace G. Pilkington (Autor)

Donald E. Palumbo, C.W. Sullivan III (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

236 Seiten

2017
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-9856-7 (ISBN)

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Science and science fiction have become inseparable--with common stories, interconnected thought experiments, and shared language. This reference book lays out that relationship and its all-but-magical terms and ideas. Those who think seriously about the future are changing the world, reshaping how we speak and how we think.

This book fully covers the terms that collected, clarified and crystallized the futurists' ideas, sometimes showing them off, sometimes slowing them down, and sometimes propelling them to fame and making them the common currency of our culture.

The many entries in this encyclopedic work offer a guided tour of the vast territories occupied by science fiction and futurism. In his Foreword, David Brin says, "Provocative and enticing? Filled with 'huh!' moments and leads to great stories? That describes this volume."

The late Ace G. Pilkington was a professor of English and history at Dixie State University. He was the author or editor of eight books and had published more than 100 articles, reviews, short stories and poems.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments deletexi

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

Erscheinungsdatum	18.04.2017
Reihe/Serie	Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Zusatzinfo	bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	322 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
	Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Science Fiction
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-7864-9856-0 / 0786498560
ISBN-13	978-0-7864-9856-7 / 9780786498567
Zustand	Neuware