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Science fiction : voyage to the edge of imagination / edited by Glyn Morgan.

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London ; New York : Thames & Hudson, 2022.

Science fiction in art -- Exhibitions

Science fiction -- History and criticism.

Science fiction films -- History and criticism.

9780500252390 (hardcover) :

0500252394 (hardcover) :

287 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm

Science and science fiction / Ian Blatchford -- What is science fiction for? / Nalo Hopkinson -- Introduction: Imagining science fiction / Glyn Morgan -- 1. People and Machines -- People as machines/Machine people / Sherryl Vint -- In the loop: reordering human-technology relations / Colin Milburn -- Interview: Chen Quifan -- 2. Travelling the Cosmos -- Prototyping the future: spaceflight as screen spectacle / Richard Dunn -- Beyond the solar system / Rachael Livermore -- Interview: Charlie Jane Anders -- 3. Communication and Language -- Communications / Roger Luckhurst -- A century of science fiction from around the world / Rachel S. Cordasco -- Interview: Vandana Singh -- 4. Aliens and Alienation -- Alien speculation: science, fiction and the future / Amanda Rees -- Infinite diversity: pleasures of the unknown / Glyn Morgan -- Interview: Tade Thompson -- 5. Anxieties and Hopes -- Science fiction in the atomic age / Daniel Cordle -- Climate in science fiction / Caroline Edwards -- Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson.

Drawing on a wide range of examples from the literary and visual canons - short stories, novels, films, television programmes, video games, graphic novels, artworks and more - in both cult and popular culture, this extensively illustrated book examines how science fiction has provided a human response to science, exploring every reaction from complacency to exhilaration, and from hope to terror. Across five chapters this volume reviews the role played by science fiction in exploring our world and a multitude of ideas about our relationship with the human condition. This encompasses a fascinating range of themes - machines, travel, aliens (the Other), communication, threats and anxiety. Featuring a range of essays by experts on the subject as well as interviews with well-known science-fiction authors and reproductions of classic ephemera, graphics and objects throughout, it also focuses on the darker elements of this fascinating genre - the anxieties, fears, dystopias, monsters and apocalypses that have populated science fiction from the beginning. Ultimately, science fiction asks what makes us human, and what lies in the future to test, threaten and even destroy humanity. This publication has these questions at its core, making it especially relevant for a contemporary readership in an age preoccupied with the climate emergency, the coronavirus pandemic, the development of nuclear missiles and military technologies, and other global challenges.

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