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Muradian, Gaiane, and Anna Karapetyan. "On Some Properties of Science Fiction Dystopian Narrative." Armenian Folia Anglistika 13, no. 1-2 (17) (October 16, 2017): 7–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.46991/afa/2017.13.1-2.007.

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Dystopia is a narrative form of fiction in general and of science fiction in particular. Using elements of science fiction discourse like time travel, space flight, advanced technologies, virtual reality, genetic engineering, etc. – dystopian narrative depicts future fictive societies presenting in peculiar prose style a future in which humanity has fallen into destruction, ruin and decline, in which human life and nature are wildly abused, exploited and destroyed, in which a totalitarian, highly centralized, and, therefore, oppressive social organization sacrifices individual expression, freedom of choice and idiosyncrasy of the society and its members. It is such critical and creative reflections of science fiction dystopian narrative that are focused on in the present case study with the aim of bringing out certain properties in terms of narrative types and devices, figurative discourse and cognitive notions through which science fiction dystopia expresses and conveys its overarching message, i.e. the warning to stop before it is too late to the reader.

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J. L., Ms Chithra. "The Paradox of Being Human and more than Human: Exploring the Class Struggle in Nancy Kress’ Beggars in Spain." Psychology and Education Journal 58, no. 1 (February 1, 2021): 4485–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.17762/pae.v58i1.1539.

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The human history is an apologue. It tells the struggle-some tale of races, aiming for power and prestige or for mere survival. Marxism, discontent with the existing struggle between the haves and have-nots, envisages a classless society. Science fiction, in contrast, assumes a fictious world, not of humans alone, but of a macrocosm of living and non-living creatures including human, non-human or subhuman entities. When the divergent communities co-exist within the same planet, there arises a dissonance. Posthuman theory assumes that “the dividing line between human, non-human or the animal is highly permeable.” There is quite a good number of Science fictions that conjures up towards a posthuman future. Even though, seemingly divergent aspects, Marxian and Posthuman theory, both presumes a fictional world. The first surmises on an ideal utopia of class-less society of unique economic equality, the second foresees a futuristic world of humans- less than or more than ‘humans.’ Nancy Kress’ Beggars in Spain is a typical science fiction which tells the negative impact of genetic engineering. A few fortunate parents who could afford the expensive genetic engineering, was able to brought about a new generation of sleepless children with unique features. But those without any alterations, remained as sleepers. In the long run, the ordinary humans seemed to lose the race with the much productive individuals, who is having a bonus of sleeping hours and much more added advantages. The conflict results in a class struggle of ‘haves and have-nots’. Marxian view of the class struggle between the proletariat and the aristocrats can be analyzed on par with the classification of individuals purely based on their talents whether they inherited or purposefully custom-made. The present scrutiny rounds off the assertion that, there is no ultimate victory over the war of human and posthuman races.

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Dodds, John H., and Jesse M. Jaynes. "Crop Plant Genetic Engineering: Science Fiction to Science Fact." Outlook on Agriculture 16, no. 3 (September 1987): 111–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/003072708701600303.

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Recombinant DNA technology covers a wide range of biochemical techniques used to cut, splice, and move DNA from one organism to another. Genetic engineering began as a basic scientific study to learn more about gene expression and gene structure in bacteria. In the last 10 years the techniques of recombinant DNA technology have moved from the university research laboratory to the industrial production level. The techniques are applicable to all organisms and studies have been made of the genomes of viruses, bacteria, yeasts, animals, and plants. It is the latter, genetic engineering of plants, which is covered in this article.

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Zalomkina, Galina V. "GOTHIC COMPONENTS OF SCIENCE FICTION’S GENEALOGY." VESTNIK IKBFU PHILOLOGY PEDAGOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY, no. 2 (2023): 43–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.5922/pikbfu-2023-2-5.

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Science fiction can be defined as the literature about cognizable unusual phenomena which represents hypothetical scientific, technical and social products of their rational exploration. Before the genre emerged, the subject of exploring the unusual was developed mainly in the field of mythological fiction, which became the basic element of Gothic literature. In Gothic, the features of science fiction began to form: in M. Shelley’s novel “Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus”, the motives of the supernatural are rationalized through the use of scientific and technical issues. The goal of the presented research is detecting the nature, methods and specifics of the transformations of the Gothic plot that led to the formation of the science fiction genre. It is achieved by the use of comparative, historical-genetic, hermeneutic, mythopoetic methods. Gothic literature reacted to the growing interest in scientific and technological progress by attempting to rationalize the elements of the supernatural plot: demons, werewolves, the living dead could be presented either as a result of experimentation or as an object of scientific exploration. In Russian literature, V. F. Odoevsky made a move from Gothic poetics towards long-term social, scientific and technological forecasting in a fiction text. The role of Gothic in the genesis of science fiction is clearly visible in the artistic world of H. P. Lovecraft who elaborated supernatural horror in the form of nonhuman manifestations of the indifferent Universe. The protagonist scientist is involved into the knowledge of it and, therefore, is put in the situation of a mythological cultural hero, reinterpreted in the coordinates of the plot of scientific research.

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Khairatun Hisan, Urfa, and Cyril B. Romero. "Designer Babies are No Longer Science Fiction: What are The Ethical Considerations?" Bincang Sains dan Teknologi 2, no. 03 (October 19, 2023): 124–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.56741/bst.v2i03.437.

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Designer babies, a concept once relegated to science fiction, are now a burgeoning topic of discussion and exploration in genetics and bioethics. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the designer baby phenomenon, examining its definition and evolution from cinematic fantasy to scientific possibility. We delve into the intricate mechanisms behind designer babies, shedding light on the genetic engineering technologies, particularly CRISPR, that underpin this concept. While these technologies hold immense promise, they are still nascent, awaiting rigorous development and ethical scrutiny. The paper highlights the current state of designer baby research, emphasising that successful implementations on human subjects remained unverified as of its writing. Notably, we recount the controversial case of He Jiankui, whose unapproved and ethically questionable experimentation with CRISPR on embryos in China sent shockwaves through the scientific community. The arguments surrounding designer babies are dissected, presenting both proponents' views, such as the potential to eradicate genetic diseases and enhance human potential, and critics' concerns about ethical dilemmas, reduced genetic diversity, social inequality, and unpredictable consequences. Ethical considerations are paramount, touching upon human dignity, social justice, eugenics, unintended consequences, autonomy, and the impact on religious and moral convictions. Once a fantastical notion, designer babies have become a tangible subject of scientific inquiry and ethical discourse. This paper endeavours to provide a comprehensive understanding of the multifaceted dimensions surrounding designer babies, allowing readers to contemplate the ethical, social, and scientific implications of a future where genetic engineering may shape the very essence of human existence. As society grapples with these profound questions, we must navigate this uncharted territory with wisdom, responsibility, and an unwavering commitment to ethical principles.

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Laxdal, Vivienne. "Cyber:\womb A contemporary domestic science-fiction drama in two acts." Canadian Theatre Review 82 (March 1995): 60–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ctr.82.015.

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Playwright’s Note This play was inspired by my questions and concerns about reprod uctive technology and genetic engineering. My fascination with the Cyberpunk movement and my feehngs of being left behind or on the “outside” also came into creative play. I wonder about the context of “soul” within these new methods of creating and altering life. Is anybody thinking abou t that? Should we?

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Godhe, Michael. "After Work: Anticipatory Knowledge on Post-Scarcity Futures in John Barness Thousand Cultures Tetralogy." Culture Unbound 10, no. 2 (October 30, 2018): 246–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.2018102246.

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What would happen if we could create societies with an abundance of goods and services created by cutting-edge technology, making manual wage labour unnecessary – what has been labelled societies with a post-scarcity economy. What are the pros and cons of such a future? Several science fiction novels and films have discussed these questions in recent decades, and have examined them in the socio-political, cultural, economic, scientific and environmental contexts of globalization, migration, nationalism, automation, robotization, the development of nanotechnology, genetic engineering, artificial intelligence and global warming. In the first section of this article, I introduce methodological approaches and theoretical perspectives connected to Critical Future Studies and science fiction as anticipatory knowledge. In the second and third section, I introduce the question of the value of work by discussing some examples from speculative fiction. In section four to seven, I analyze the Thousand Culture tetralogy (1992–2006), written by science fiction author John Barnes. The Thousand Cultures tetralogy is set in the 29th century, in a post-scarcity world. It highlights the question of work and leisure, and the values of each, and discusses these through the various societies depicted in the novels. What are the possible risks with societies where work is voluntary?

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Fortoul van der Goes, Teresa I. "Las tijeras de… ¿Dios?" Revista de la Facultad de Medicina 67, no. 1 (January 10, 2024): 3–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.22201/fm.24484865e.2024.67.1.01.

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even before the discovery of the existence of genes, science fiction writers were already curious about the ability to modify the genetic code of living beings and its ethical implications. Dragon Island already raised the ethical dilemma posed by genetic modification today known as genetic engineering. The continuous interest in expanding knowledge about the human genome and the different genes encoded has driven progress in DNA sequencing and from research, interests have been directed towards a greater understanding of the function of genes and progress in the most precise genetic editing possible.

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Ajdačić, Dejan. "O genetski izazvanim bolestima u romanu „Kralj Bola i skakavac” (Król Bólu i pasikonik) Jaceka Dukaja." Slavica Wratislaviensia 177 (December 30, 2022): 221–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0137-1150.177.19.

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The author discusses the historical changes in attitudes towards infectious diseases in the mythological, Christian-religious and scientific worldview before and after the discovery of the causes of these diseases in the context of the types of futuristic fiction. One narrative line of the novel by contemporary Polish writer Jacek Dukaj King of Pain and the Grasshopper (Król Bólu i pasikonik, 2010) is centred on to the production of retroviruses and carcinogenic agents by genetic engineering companies that cause epidemics and destroy wildlife in the southern hemisphere. The text points out the specifics of the author’s descriptions of the cause of the plague and discusses Dukaj’s speculative projections of futuristic fiction.

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Chambers, Paul. "From omics to systems biology: towards a more complete description and understanding of biology." Microbiology Australia 32, no. 4 (2011): 141. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ma11141.

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Technology sets limits on what can be achieved in research. The advent of genetic engineering accompanied by the development of monoclonal antibody technology in the 1970s heralded the birth of modern ?molecular biology?. This revolutionised the way we approach research in the biological sciences by allowing access to cellular structures and processes that were in the realm of science fiction a decade earlier. The invention of the PCR in the 1980s built on this, making cloning easier and a great deal more rapid; with PCR we no longer required a host and vector to amplify DNA and isolate targeted DNA sequences.

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COGGON, JOHN. "Confrontations in “Genethics”: Rationalities, Challenges, and Methodological Responses." Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 20, no. 1 (January 2011): 46–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0963180110000617.

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It was only a matter of time before the portmanteau term “genethics” would be coined and a whole field within bioethics delineated. The term can be dated back at least to 1984 and the work of James Nagle, who claims credit for inventing the word, which he takes “to incorporate the various ethical implications and dilemmas generated by genetic engineering with the technologies and applications that directly or indirectly affect the human species.” In Nagle’s phrase, “Genethic issues are instances where medical genetics and biotechnology generate ethical problems that warrant societal deliberation.” The great promises and terrific threats of developments in scientific understanding of genetics, and the power to enhance, modify, or profit from the knowledge science breeds, naturally offer a huge range of issues to vex moral philosophers and social theorists. Issues as diverse as embryo selection and the quest for immortality continue to tax analysts, who offer reasons as varied as the matters that might be dubbed “genethical” for or against the morality of things that are actually possible, logically possible, and even just tenuously probable science fiction.

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Agustina, Susanti, Wan Satirah Wan Mohd Saman, Norshila Shaifuddin, and Rafidah Abdul Aziz. "Reading material selection for bibliotherapy based on blood type in young adult groups." Jurnal Kajian Informasi & Perpustakaan 10, no. 1 (June 30, 2022): 89. http://dx.doi.org/10.24198/jkip.v10i1.31022.

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Blood type as biological information is still considered a prophecy and pseudoscience that still needs to be proven. It is the easiest and cheapest among other genetic identification tools.This study aimed to map reading material selections based on blood type personality. This study was a quantitative approach through cross-sectional survey. Identification was obtained from data in identity cards and laboratory blood type tests. The study population was 100 UPI LIS students with 80 samples of young adults aged 18-22 through random sampling with stratification. The samples were: 9 respondents with AB blood type and 25 with A blood type. Respondents of O and B blood types each followed the selection of the expected sample was 20 people. Each homogeneous sample filled out a questionnaire on reading material selection aspects. Results showed that 55.6% of the AB blood type chose non-fiction books such as 'how-to' related to hobbies, and 52% of A blood type tended to select non-fiction books that support their tasks and work. Also, 81.8% of B blood type chose fiction books and adventure stories opening up fantasy horizons, and 80% of O blood type chose books that did not always have to be brought to the big screen/filmed; however, they were recommended and told. In conclusion, this blood type personality model can identify young adult clients' profiles to develop bibliotherapy service programs in different types of libraries and make it easier for librarians and bibliotherapists to recommend reading materials suitable for the benefit of preventive-curative bibliotherapy.

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MacDonald, Ian P. "“Let Us All Mutate Together”: Cracking the Code in Laing’sBig Bishop Roko and the Altar Gangsters." Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 3, no. 3 (September 2016): 313–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pli.2016.15.

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Both Derek Wright and Francis Ngaboh-Smart have interpreted Laing’sMajor Gentl and the Achimota Wars(1992) as an allegory for the emergence of the Internet. In that novel, a future Africa has been digitally erased from the Web archive, and the story follows a civil war aimed at reintegrating the continent into the global scene. Beginning from this reading, I approach Laing’s next work,Big Bishop Roko and the Altar Gangsters(2006), as a formal sequel toMajor Gentl, investigating the changing landscape of global digital access and its potential as a site of resistance over the decade that separates their publication. If, inMajor Gentl, West Africans have been exiled from the Web, the eponymous protagonist inRokouses networked access to interrupt neoliberal economic and social engineering underway in the global North. Through experiments in “genetic mutation”—a metaphor for cyborgian transformation from biological to networked existence—Roko hacks the evolutionary process and forces Africa’s voice into the digital sphere in an attempt to remedy that technology’s unequal distribution. In both novels, Laing indigenizes science fiction using a technique I refer to asjujutech—a hybrid of science fiction and African folk traditions. The resulting style identifies the ways the genre itself mutates and evolves as it escapes the gravity of its Euro-American roots. Laing’s decision to publishRokoelectronically further points to form following function, highlighting new avenues for the dissemination of experimental African works in underrepresented genres.

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Gorokhov, Pavel Aleksandrovich. "Philosophical Aspects of the Problem of "Artificial Man" in Fiction." Философия и культура, no. 7 (July 2023): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2454-0757.2023.7.38797.

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The problem of the creation of artificial man and the creation of artificial intelligence are issues that have now become not just potential, but also actual scientific tasks. The original genetic kinship of philosophy and literature as forms of human culture and meaning formation made it possible to comprehend the most important problems in works rich in ideological content and beautiful in form. The subject of the research is the philosophical aspects of the problem of the creation of artificial man in the classic works of fantasy literature of the XIX-XX centuries. This goal is achieved by consistent consideration and comparison of philosophical and anthropological ideas that can be isolated from the works of Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Mary Shelley, Herbert George Wells and M.A. Bulgakov. Hermeneutical method as interpretation and reconstruction of meanings, comparative historical analysis, philosophical comparative studies are used as the methodological basis of this historical and philosophical research. The novelty of the research lies in the historical and philosophical reconstruction of the problem of creating an artificial person, posed for the first time on the pages of the world art classics. The very idea of creating an artificial man was a continuation of the God-fighting aspirations of the Renaissance and the embodiment of the ardent desire to become not only on a par with the Creator, but also to surpass Him. When creating the image of the homunculus, Goethe also had in mind the contrivance, artificiality and fruitlessness of many enlightenment ideas, because the enlighteners questioned the very existence of God, putting a scientist-creator in His place. Goethe's idea of the futility and danger of experimenting with human nature was later developed by Mary Shelley, H. G. Wells and Mikhail Bulgakov. Wagner's homunculus and the creation of Dr. Frankenstein are the closest to the idea of man that prevailed in the philosophy of Modern times and educational pedagogy. Powerful notes of philosophical foresight of many plot moves of the coming history of mankind sound in the novel by Wells (the creation of Dr. Moreau) and the story of Bulgakov (Sharikov).

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Szewczyk, Matylda. "On gods, pixies and humans: Biohacking and the genetic imaginary." Technoetic Arts 20, no. 1 (July 1, 2022): 125–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/tear_00086_1.

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The focal point of my article is the work of biohackers: mainly Josiah Zayner, whose activism as a biohacker, as an artist and a public figure offers an interesting lens through which one can explore the contemporary genetic imaginary and our changing and varied approach to genetic engineering. The framework for this description is set by an analysis of cultural representations of contemporary science and technology, both in documentaries and in works of fiction. In the article, I trace and analyse the ways in which biohackers’ activity is involved with the earlier ideas of cyberculture, most notably with the notion of biological life as information (possible to edit or ‘hack’) and to the image of a ‘hacker’. I recall the popular phrase of ‘playing god’, often quoted in relation to genetic imaginary, mainly as a warning against excessive interventions within nature. The phrase and the warning itself seem to have become insofar more important, as the scale of possible interventions had been raised by the advancement of genetic engineering. Finally, I discuss the relation of art and science in Zayner’s activity, within a broader context of relevant images of artists and scientists and their role within the changing realities of contemporary life. The article does not pretend to fully analyse or even describe the modalities and implication of biohackers’ activity. Its main goal is to shed more light on the current changes in collective imagination related to the rapid development of biotechnology and its cultural understanding. The public presence of biohackers, and especially Zayner’s activity, provides new visions of human agency in nature and of relation between art, science and social practice.

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Mazique, Rachel. "Science Fiction’s Imagined Futures and Powerful Protests: The Ethics of “Curing” Deafness in Ted Evans’s The End and Donna Williams’s “When the Dead Are Cured”." Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies: Volume 14, Issue 4 14, no. 4 (October 1, 2020): 469–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/jlcds.2020.31.

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Contemporary Deaf literature and film of the science fiction (SF) genre such as Ted Evans’s The End and Donna Williams’s “When the Dead are Cured” imagine worlds where Sign Language Peoples (SLPs) are threatened with eradication. Employing schema criticism, the article shows how these social SF stories have the potential to transform harmful cognitive schemas that perpetuate eugenic drives, explaining how certain cognitive schemas uphold beliefs inherent to the ideology of ability (Bracher 2013; Siebers 2008). These SF texts question the ethics of genetic engineering and the desire to “cure” deafness; the intersection of disability and SF results in a subgenre of protest literature. Each protest story depicts eugenic ideologies that instantiate real-world SLPs’ activist claims to human and group rights. Further, these depictions of eugenic drives enable the activation of cognitive schemas that work against social injustices. SF as a mode of thought thus supports real-life protest against the state.

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S, Narendiran, and Bhuvaneswari R. "The Uninhibited Evolution of the Human Persona: A Transhumanistic Study of Anil Menon’s The Beast with Nine Billion Feet." Space and Culture, India 8, no. 3 (November 29, 2020): 27–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.20896/saci.vi0.740.

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Debates on intuition about transformed humankind in the future have led to the conception of transhumanism. It is a new philosophical movement to express the ideology that humanism will evolve by employing science and technology. Supporters of transhumanism believe that scientific aid in the evolution of humans will take them beyond the bounds of physical and mental limitations; eventually, it will make them immortals. The influence of transhumanism in literature has given birth to seminal works of art, particularly science fiction. Anil Menon’s The Beast with Nine Billion Feet is one such novel which sprang out the moral issues due to the rapid growth of science and technology affecting social, cultural, and political scenarios in India. The story is about genetic engineering and its impact on the socio-political problems. In addition to unfolding the threats and opportunities of transhumanism, the novel also touches on the issues of young adults like acquiring autonomy and finding their true identity. This study attempts to bring out the trepidation and chaos resultant of the period of transition and the multiple challenges and threats to the human race.

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Pak, Chris. "THE DIALOGIC SCIENCE FICTION MEGATEXT: VIVISECTION IN H.G. WELLS'STHE ISLAND OF DR MOREAUAND GENETIC ENGINEERING IN GENE WOLFE'S ‘THE WOMAN WHO LOVED THE CENTAUR PHOLUS’." Green Letters 12, no. 1 (January 2010): 27–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2010.10589061.

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Bernard, Catherine. "SARAH HERBE. — Characters in New British Hard Science Fiction. With a Focus on Genetic Engineering in Paul McAuley, Alastair Reynolds and Brian Stableford. (Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2012, 249 pp., 36,50 €.)." Études anglaises Vol. 67, no. 3 (December 9, 2014): I. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/etan.673.0381a.

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Kozlova, Varvara V., Victoria P. Lazarenko, and Anna N. Slavinskaya. "The image of a teenager in the 18th–19th century Russian fiction." Comprehensive Child Studies 4, no. 2 (2022): 94–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.33910/2687-0223-2022-4-2-94-103.

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Prus, Elena. "Artistic Anthropology from the Perspective of Transhumanist Ethics." Intertext, no. 1/2 (57/58) (October 2021): 39–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.54481/intertext.2021.1.04.

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Japanese-born British Kazuo Ishiguro is a fiction writer rewarded with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017, whose polymorph opera is appreciated for the literary quality of books. The memory, the identity, the nostalgia, the self-illusion and the capacity of individual to overpass own limits are topics constituting Ishiguro personal brand. The literary approach was often an anticipation of ontological realities, a view of the future. Never Let Me Go (2005) is a novel about the ethics matters arisen by the problem of cloning bioengineering in formulas of artistic anthropology. The novel was catalogued differently: as dystopic story with fantastic elements about an alternative universe created by the genetic engineering and as a love story disguised in alternative story. Inscribing in the bloodline of Huxley, the innovation of Ishiguro consisted in the fact that he has represented “the cloning kitchen” from a totally different perspective than that of previous novelists – the one of cloned beings, whose true mission is to become living donors of organs for transplantation. There is however in this tensioned atmosphere human elements: the pupils practice arts and fell in love, proving a sensitive capacity of the soul. The artistic conflict consist in the confrontation between humanists and representatives of medical industry, the last taking the control. Ishiguro’s novels do not give solutions, “the clones’ nation” does not try to protest or to escape. The global matters the novel arises inscribes in treating the science as a continuation of the metaphysics, as updating of the spirit by transforming experimentally the living, as delegation of the moral.

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Duda, Katarzyna. "Wirtualna rzeczywistość świata postnowoczesnego (na przykładzie wybranych utworów współczesnej literatury rosyjskiej)." Bibliotekarz Podlaski Ogólnopolskie Naukowe Pismo Bibliotekoznawcze i Bibliologiczne 61, no. 4 (March 12, 2024): 23–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.36770/bp.847.

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The aim of the article presented here is to define virtual reality in a post-modern world in which revolutionary technological transformations are taking place before our eyes. Thus, we are witnessing the implementation into our existence of new entities created in the first instance by the sciences including information technology, biotechnology, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology. The latter fields of knowledge have become our research object, with examples drawn from selected works of contemporary Russian literature. It turns out that transhumanism in Russia has its prehistory, for example, the cosmism of Nikolai Fyodorov, and is intensively developing in the present day, for example, the organisation, the Russian Transhumanist Movement. In terms of fiction related to the desire to transform homo sapiens into homo superior, Andrei Platonov, Yevgeny Zamiatin, Mikhail Bulgakov highlight this trend. In contemporary times, the themes of transhumanism, immortalism, cryonics, and artificial intelligence have been taken up by Tatyana Tolstaya, Olga Slavnikova, Victor Pelevin, Vladimir Sorokin, among others. On the pages of their novels, they present how utopia understood as a pipe dream is transformed into utopia – an experiment. The rapid development of civilization forces us to have moral doubts: “unfrozen” after a few hundred years, man may not adapt in a new environment. Artificial intelligence threatens to transform human beings into their replicas, cyborgs, taking over people’s jobs and threatening unemployment. This in turn contradicts the idea of eternal life, raising questions about whether replicas of humans will be endowed with consciousness and emotions, or whether humans transformed from creatures to creators will still remain human.

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Haker, Hille. "Habermas and the Question of Bioethics." European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 11, no. 4 (December 20, 2019): 61. http://dx.doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.v11i4.3037.

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In The Future of Human Nature, Jürgen Habermas raises the question of whether the embryonic genetic diagnosis and genetic modification threatens the foundations of the species ethics that underlies current understandings of morality. While morality, in the normative sense, is based on moral interactions enabling communicative action, justification, and reciprocal respect, the reification involved in the new technologies may preclude individuals to uphold a sense of the undisposability (Unverfügbarkeit) of human life and the inviolability (Unantastbarkeit) of human beings that is necessary for their own identity as well as for reciprocal relations. Engaging with liberal bioethics and Catholic approaches to bioethics, the article clarifies how Habermas’ position offers a radical critique of liberal autonomy while maintaining its postmetaphysical stance. The essay argues that Habermas’ approach may guide the question of rights of future generations regarding germline gene editing. But it calls for a different turn in the conversation between philosophy and theology, namely one that emphasizes the necessary attention to rights violations and injustices as a common, postmetaphysical starting point for critical theory and critical theology alike. In 2001, Jürgen Habermas published a short book on questions of biomedicine that took many by surprise.[1] To some of his students, the turn to a substantive position invoking the need to comment on a species ethics rather than outlining a public moral framework was seen as the departure from the “path of deontological virtue,”[2] and at the same time a departure from postmetaphysical reason. Habermas’ motivation to address the developments in biomedicine had certainly been sparked by the intense debate in Germany, the European Union, and internationally on human cloning, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, embryonic stem cell research, and human enhancement. He turned to a strand of critical theory that had been pushed to the background by the younger Frankfurt School in favor of cultural theory and social critique, even though it had been an important element of its initial working programs. The relationship of instrumental reason and critical theory, examined, among others, by Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, and Herbert Marcuse and taken up in Habermas’ own Knowledge and Interest and Theory of Communicative Action became ever-more actual with the development of the life sciences, human genome analysis, and genetic engineering of human offspring. Today, some of the fictional scenarios discussed at the end of the last century as “science fiction” have become reality: in 2018, the first “germline gene-edited” children were born in China.[3] Furthermore, the UK’s permission to create so-called “three-parent” children may create a legal and political pathway to hereditary germline interventions summarized under the name of “gene editing.”In this article, I want to explore Habermas’ “substantial” argument in the hope that (moral) philosophy and (moral) theology become allies in their struggle against an ever-more reifying lifeworld, which may create a “moral void” that would, at least from today’s perspective, be “unbearable” (73), and for upholding the conditions of human dignity, freedom, and justice. I will contextualize Habermas’ concerns in the broader discourse of bioethics, because only by doing this, his concerns are rescued from some misinterpretations.[1] Jürgen Habermas, The Future of Human Nature (Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2003).[2] Ibid., 125, fn. 58. 8[3] Up to the present, no scientific publication of the exact procedure exists, but it is known that the scientist, Jiankui He, circumvented the existing national regulatory framework and may have misled the prospective parents about existing alternatives and the unprecedented nature of his conduct. Yuanwu Ma, Lianfeng Zhang, and Chuan Qin, "The First Genetically Gene‐Edited Babies: It's “Irresponsible and Too Early”," Animal Models and Experimental Medicine (2019); Matthias Braun, Meacham, Darian, "The Trust Game: Crispr for Human Germline Editing Unsettles Scientists and Society," EMBO reports 20, no. 2 (2019).

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Vogel, G. "GENETIC ENHANCEMENT: From Science Fiction to Ethics Quandary." Science 277, no. 5333 (September 19, 1997): 1753–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.277.5333.1753.

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Goodwin, Barbara. "Science‐fiction utopias." Science as Culture 1, no. 2 (January 1988): 107–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09505438809526202.

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Palmer, T. N. "The Invariant Set Postulate: a new geometric framework for the foundations of quantum theory and the role played by gravity." Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 465, no. 2110 (July 29, 2009): 3165–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2009.0080.

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A new law of physics is proposed, defined on the cosmological scale but with significant implications for the microscale. Motivated by nonlinear dynamical systems theory and black-hole thermodynamics, the Invariant Set Postulate proposes that cosmological states of physical reality belong to a non-computable fractal state-space geometry I , invariant under the action of some subordinate deterministic causal dynamics D I . An exploratory analysis is made of a possible causal realistic framework for quantum physics based on key properties of I . For example, sparseness is used to relate generic counterfactual states to points p ∉ I of unreality, thus providing a geometric basis for the essential contextuality of quantum physics and the role of the abstract Hilbert Space in quantum theory. Also, self-similarity, described in a symbolic setting, provides a possible realistic perspective on the essential role of complex numbers and quaternions in quantum theory. A new interpretation is given to the standard ‘mysteries’ of quantum theory: superposition, measurement, non-locality, emergence of classicality and so on. It is proposed that heterogeneities in the fractal geometry of I are manifestations of the phenomenon of gravity. Since quantum theory is inherently blind to the existence of such state-space geometries, the analysis here suggests that attempts to formulate unified theories of physics within a conventional quantum-theoretic framework are misguided, and that a successful quantum theory of gravity should unify the causal non-Euclidean geometry of space–time with the atemporal fractal geometry of state space. The task is not to make sense of the quantum axioms by heaping more structure, more definitions, more science fiction imagery on top of them, but to throw them away wholesale and start afresh. We should be relentless in asking ourselves: From what deep physical principles might we derive this exquisite structure? These principles should be crisp, they should be compelling. They should stir the soul. Chris Fuchs ( Gilder 2008 , p. 335)

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Andriulli, Francesco. "Who Says That Science Fiction Is Just Fiction? [Editor's Comments]." IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine 61, no. 5 (October 2019): 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/map.2019.2936901.

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Haberer, Joseph. "Literature, Humanities, Science Fiction." Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society 7, no. 3-4 (August 1987): 561–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/027046768700700322.

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Martens, Pim. "Sustainability: Science or Fiction?" IEEE Engineering Management Review 35, no. 3 (2007): 70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/emr.2007.4296430.

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KILINÇARSLAN, Yasemin. "NEW TRENDS IN SCIENCE FICTION CINEMA AND GENETIC CINEMA." INTERNATIONAL PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION AND HUMANITIES RESEARCHES, no. 10 (March 30, 2016): 485. http://dx.doi.org/10.17361/uhive.20161016615.

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Schneider, Jen. "Science Fiction and Science Policy." Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society 26, no. 6 (December 2006): 518–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0270467606295553.

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Donner, M. "Cult classics [science fiction]." IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine 2, no. 3 (May 2004): 66–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/msp.2004.11.

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Vinge, Vernor, and Jim Euchner. "Science Fiction as Foresight." Research-Technology Management 60, no. 1 (January 2, 2017): 11–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08956308.2017.1255048.

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Sealy, Cordelia. "Science fact or fiction?" Materials Today 6, no. 5 (May 2003): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1369-7021(03)00501-7.

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Kazennov, D. K. "Bioethical Judgments about Genetic Engineering." Izvestiya of Saratov University. Philosophy. Psychology. Pedagogy 11, no. 2 (2011): 32–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.18500/1819-7671-2011-11-2-32-35.

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This article discusses the ethical judgments about human genetic engineering. Considered opinions include consequentialist judgments and categorical judgments. Judgments are being analyzed in the emotivist approach. The article concludes that there is no enough empirical knowledge for an adequate judgment on the prospects of human genetic engineering, while the existing judgments are being associated with exaggerated assumptions, bordering on dystopian fiction, and metaphysical concepts.

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Pandurang Dhonnar, R., R. S. Dolas, S. N. Santhosh Kumar, A. R. Agrawal, S. A. Baig, and S. Bagade. "Tissue engineering – an insinuating science fiction." International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery 36, no. 11 (November 2007): 1109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijom.2007.09.140.

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Fagan, Edward R. "Romantic Fantasy and Science Fiction." Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society 9, no. 2-3 (April 1989): 202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/027046768900900223.

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Kundu, Suze. "Elements of science and fiction." Nature Chemistry 11, no. 1 (December 14, 2018): 13–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41557-018-0194-5.

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Wang, Min. "Inspiration of Science Fiction Products to Innovative Design of Realistic Products." Advanced Materials Research 308-310 (August 2011): 319–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.308-310.319.

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With the rapid development of science and technology, science fiction products are gradually becoming realistic and stepping into and affecting our lives. This paper begins from the connotation of science fiction products in movies, analyzes social, economical and technological base for the existence of science fiction products, and involves the impact and function in existing product design of science fiction products in the aspects of innovative model, advanced technology and material use and so on. Finally it comes to the conclusion that we can take advantage of future technology and new materials of science fiction products in modern product design to improve man-machine relationship of realistic products, design new lifestyles, and better man’s quality of life.

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Chozinski, Brittany Anne. "Science Fiction as Critique of Science." Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society 36, no. 1 (February 2016): 58–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0270467616636198.

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Smith, Greg. "Fiction in Goffman." Sociological Review 70, no. 4 (July 2022): 711–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00380261221109029.

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There are no references to creative fiction in Erving Goffman’s founding statement of his sociology of the interaction order, his 1953 Chicago doctoral dissertation ( Communication Conduct in an Island Community). Yet four pages into his first and best-known book, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959), Goffman cites a ‘novelistic incident’ describing the posturing of Preedy, a ‘vacationing Englishman’ on a Spanish beach. It is introduced in order to articulate the distinction between ‘expressions given’ and ‘expressions given off’ and to indicate their capacity for intentional or unintentional engineering. The page-long passage about Preedy, found in a 1956 collection of William Sansom’s short stories, is often mentioned in reviews and summaries of Goffman’s groundbreaking book. This article describes the types of fiction drawn upon by Goffman and examines the ‘work’ that fictional illustrations distinctively do in his writings. The discussion sheds light not only on why Goffman elected to include fictional illustrative materials in his sociology and why eventually he dropped their use, it also underscores some strengths and limits of the fictional for interactional analysis in sociology.

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Murphy, Robin R. "Planetary rovers in science fiction." Science Robotics 6, no. 52 (March 31, 2021): eabh3165. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/scirobotics.abh3165.

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Murphy, Robin R. "Swarm robots in science fiction." Science Robotics 6, no. 56 (July 28, 2021): eabk0451. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/scirobotics.abk0451.

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Murphy, Robin R. "Robot mothers in science fiction." Science Robotics 6, no. 54 (May 12, 2021): eabi9220. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/scirobotics.abi9220.

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CHEPURINA, VERA. "VARIABILITY OF THE NARRATOR'S IMAGE IN SPEECH PERFORMANCE ART." Культурный код, no. 2022-3 (2022): 100–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.36945/2658-3852-2022-3-100-112.

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The article is devoted to the phenomenon of the narrator, who is considered as the subject of action in the speech performing art. The author of the article believes that the problem of the variability of the narrator's image deserves close attention. The answer to the question of who the performer feels in the story being told is of fundamental importance. The typology of the narrator's image revealed in the article is based on the research of specialists in the field of the language of Russian fiction. The degree of involvement of the narrator in the story he is broadcasting is used as the basis for the typology. Special attention is paid to the correlation of the narrator's image with the author of the literary work. At the same time, the author of the article argues that the variety of unique variants of the narrator's image in oral narration is determined not only by the main characteristics set by the author-creator, but also provided by the concept of the performer. The position of the narrator in the depicted world is due to the originality and uniqueness of the storytelling situation. The variability of the image, the dynamic relationship between the author, the narrator and the characters correspond to the principle of a pluralistic model of the world as one of the fundamental features of postmodern art.

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Doove, Edith. "Fiction-Science—Buvard et Pichet." Leonardo 54, no. 6 (2021): 705–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/leon_r_02164.

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Busuttil, Katerina. "From science fiction to reality." Materials Today 11, no. 7-8 (July 2008): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1369-7021(08)70132-9.

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Brown, Alan S., and Brittany Logan. "How Fiction Puts the Science in Engineering." Mechanical Engineering 137, no. 02 (February 1, 2015): 32–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.2015-feb-1.

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This article elaborates how science fiction can inspire innovators in their lives. Adam Steltzner, Curiosity Lead Engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, reveals that he was a big fan of Larry Niven’s Lucifer’s Hammer, Ringworld, and his Known Space stories. Steltzner says he was intrigued by having a job where somebody might put him in a helicopter and send him somewhere exotic. Science fiction gave him models of smart people using their smarts, usually in some technical way, to figure out problems and exploit that. That model of a smart guy as a hero motivated Steltzner. Science fiction also allows him to ponder what might be. His favorite stories inspire him to figure out what is far out and what might actually be possible. Steltzner says if he could have any sci-fi invention, it would be a flying car. It would give him the ability to use all the three-dimensionality of the world to get around all the bumps and wrinkles and curves.

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Vranckx, J. J., P. Vermeulen, S. Dickens, and P. Massagé. "Smart autologous skin engineering: Science and fiction." Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery 59, no. 9 (September 2006): S7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bjps.2006.03.022.

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Suharmono. "Hermeneutika Dialogis sebagai Basis Filosofis dalam Fiksyen dan Sejarah, Suatu Dialog Karya Umar Junus." SASDAYA: Gadjah Mada Journal of Humanities 7, no. 1 (June 19, 2023): 15–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/sasdaya.v7(1).15-38.

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This study aims to explain dialogical hermeneutics, one of the scientific paradigms that can bridge the confusion of thinking in explaining the relationship between literature and reality/history. The material object used is Fiction and History of Dialogue, while the formal object is the dialogical hermeneutic paradigm in the book. The purpose of this study is to describe the basic assumptions; model; and the concepts that make up dialogic hermeneutics. The theoretical framework and method used as the basis for the analysis are Thomas Khun's thoughts related to paradigms. The results of the research show that Fiction and Dialogue History books criticize in discussing fiction which is dominated by mimetic and semiotic concepts as well as history which is seen as something that is often contrasted with fiction. Junus offers an alternative idea in the form of dialogue (hermeneutics) as a new way of looking at the relationship between fiction and history/reality. Junus uses an analogy model to see the relationship between fiction and history/reality. The concepts put forward include the Concept of Definition of Fiction; The Nature of Reality in Stories; Fiction and Heurmenetics; Fiction Shapes Reality; Perspective of Fiction and Reality of Writers and Readers; and Fiction and History.

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