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Fornoff, Carolyn. "Álvaro Menen Desleal’s Speculative Planetary Imagination." Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 44, no. 1 (2021): 43–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.18192/rceh.v44i1.5900.

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Science fiction has long held a marginalized status within the Latin American literary canon. This is due to myriad assumptions: its supposed inferior quality, sensationalist content, and disconnect from socio-historical reality. In this article, I argue for the recuperation of Salvadoran author Álvaro Menen Desleal as a foundational writer of Central American speculative fiction. I explore why Menen Desleal turns to sci-fi - abstracting his fictive worlds to far-off futures or other planets - at a moment when the writing of contemporaries of the Committed Generation was increasingly politicized and realist. I argue that Menen Desleal’s speculative planetary imagination toggles between scaling up localized concerns and evading them altogether to play with “universal” categories. By thinking with the categories of the human or the planet from an ex-centric position, Menen Desleal playfully appropriates generic convention, only to disrupt it from within.

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Blashkiv, Oksana. "Vagaries of (Academic) Identity in Contemporary Fiction." Journal of Education Culture and Society 9, no. 1 (2018): 151–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.15503/jecs20181.151.160.

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Aim. The article attempts to look at question of academic identities through the prism the academic novel. This literary genre emerged in English and American literature in early 1950s and centers on the image of the professor. In Slavic literatures the genre of the academic novel appears roughly in early 1990s, which is directly connected with the change of the political order following the fall of the Berlin Wall and disbanding of the Soviet Union. Contemporary Ukrainian literature with its post-Soviet heritage presents a unique source for the study of academic discourse. Methods. An interdisciplinary approach which combines sociological investigation of academic identity (Henkel 2005) and hermeneutic literary analysis is used for this study. In this respect three novels from the contemporary Ukrainian literature – “University” (2007) and “Kaleidoscope” (2009) by Igor Yosypiv, and “Drosophila over a Volume of Kant” (2010) by Anatoliy Dnistrovyj – are chosen for analysis. Results. Analysis of the novels shows that the literary representation of academics’ lives goes in line with the sociological findings, which, in defining a successful academic, put a strong accent on a discipline and academic institution. The interpretation of Yosypiv’s novels about a Ukrainian nephrologist at the American Medical School suggests that protagonist’s academic success is rooted in the field of applied science as well as an American institution of higher education, while Dnistrovyj’s novel sees a failure of a philosophy professor in the crisis of the Humanities as survived in post-Soviet Ukraine. Conclusion. The given novels of Igor Yosypiv and Anatoliy Dnistrovyj show that in case of academic identity theme, the academic novels support sociological studies, i.e. the discipline (Applied Sciences and Humanities) as well as the university rank (American vs. post-Soviet) play a decisive role in scholars’ academic life. This in its turn proves that the academic novel, like in the time of its emergence in the 1950s, continues to be a literary chronicler of higher education.

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Ravetti, Graciela, and Eulálio Marques Borges. "A Río Fugitivo de Edmundo Paz Soldán: uma cidade distópica? / The Río Fugitivo of Edmundo Paz Soldán: A Dystopian City?" Caligrama: Revista de Estudos Românicos 25, no. 1 (2020): 135. http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/2238-3824.25.1.135-150.

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Resumo: Este é um estudo sobre dois romances do escritor boliviano Edmundo Paz Soldán, Sueños Digitales (2000) e El delirio de Turing (2005 [2003]), destacando os tópicos da (1) urbe dividida entre um centro urbano caótico e uma periferia escura e (2) um governo federal com ares totalitários, aspectos pouco abordados até então pela crítica literária especializada. Objetivamos mostrar como a fictícia cidade de Río Fugitivo, onde transcorrem as histórias de Sueños Digitales e El delirio de Turing, funciona como uma espécie de microcosmo dos centros urbanos latino-americanos que conhecemos ao incorporar, parcialmente, em sua construção e em sua dimensão, características pertencentes a um subgênero da ficção científica contemporânea conhecido como cyberpunk. De acordo com nossa perspectiva, não se trataria de obras de ficção científica, mas sim com ficção científica, – gênero pelo qual o autor sempre demonstrou interesse.Palavras-chave: ficção científica; cyberpunk; distopia; Río Fugitivo; Paz Soldán.Abstract: This is a study of two novels by Bolivian writer Edmundo Paz Soldán, Sueños Digitales (2000) and El delirio de Turing (2005 [2003]), underlining the topics of (1) a city divided between a chaotic urban centre and a dark suburb and (2) a federal government leaning towards totalitarianism, elements that are yet to be widely explored by literary critics. The aim is to point out how the fictional city of Río Fugitivo, where the narratives of Sueños Digitales and El delirio de Turing are set, plays the role of a microcosm of the Latin American centres we know by partially incorporating, in the construction and dimension of the novels, characteristics that belong to the subgenre of contemporary science fiction known as cyberpunk. From this point of view, the books studied here would not be considered science fiction works but works containing the genre, which has always interested Soldán.Keywords: science fiction; Cyberpunk; dystopia; Río Fugitivo; Paz Soldán.

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Smith, Dina, Casey Stannar, and Jenna Tedrick Kuttruff. "Closet cosplay: Everyday expressions of science fiction and fantasy fandom among women." Fashion, Style & Popular Culture 7, no. 1 (2020): 29–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/fspc_00004_1.

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Abstract Some American science fiction and fantasy (SF&F) female fans participate in Cosplay or costume play, the global practice of dressing in costume and performing fictional characters from popular culture. Cosplay is typically only socially sanctioned at conventions and other fan events, leaving fans searching for new ways to express their fandom in everyday life. Closet cosplay is one solution in which everyday clothing and accessories can be worn to express fandom. The motivations for wearing everyday fan fashion have been only briefly mentioned by other authors or studied within limited social contexts. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to explore SF&F female fans' participation in closet cosplay as it is worn in everyday contexts. An exploratory qualitative study was conducted using a social interactionist perspective, and Sarah Thornton's concept of subcultural capital and Pierre Bourdieu's theory of cultural capital. Semi-structured, online interviews were conducted with sixteen participants who wore closet cosplay related to SF&F films and/or television series, which included Star Wars, Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Disney films, Harry Potter and anime fandoms like Sailor Moon (1995‐2000). The interview data were analysed using NVivo qualitative analysis software and the constant comparison method. Two themes emerged from the data: the definition of closet cosplay and motivations for wearing closet cosplay. Through examining these themes, it was evident that female SF&F fans used closet cosplay to express a salient fan identity, which enabled them to simultaneously gain subcultural capital and feminized cultural capital.

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Nasriddinov, Dilshod Azamkulovich. "SYSTEM OF IM STEM OF IMAGES IN GEORGE R.R. M GES IN GEORGE R.R. MARTIN’S F TIN’S FANTASY WORLD." Scientific Reports of Bukhara State University 4, no. 6 (2020): 200–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.52297/2181-1466/2020/4/6/11.

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Abstract. The emergence of different genres and trends in literature has led to the creation of various unique works. Thus, creating a novel and accepting it by a reader with positive thoughts demonstrates the skill of the writer. The internal structure of the work plays an important role in it. This scientific article contains scientifically grounded ideas about the genre of the play, its internal structure, a life of author, the secondary world, the system of images in the work and etc. The scientific article is divided into four parts, and we present them on a short explanation. Introduction. There are many genres and trends in world literature and they have led to the birth of rare works. There are so many books that the readers see themselves in another world when they read them. The creation of such works requires a high level of writing skills. In this section, there is expressed opinions about American fantasy and science fiction writer George R.R. Martin and the growing interest of the reader to the novels that he created. Methods. This section presents scientific ideas about the genre of the author's work and the essence of its content

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Yosef-Paz, Netta Bar. "Hebrew Dystopias." Israel Studies Review 33, no. 2 (2018): 66–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/isr.2018.330205.

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This article examines contemporary Hebrew dystopic novels in which ecological issues play a critical role, reflecting an increasing preoccupation of Israeli culture and society with the environment. The literary turn to dystopia is not new, but whereas Israeli dystopias published in the 1980s–1990s focused mainly on military apocalyptic visions, current novels combine these national anxieties with ecological dangers, following present-day trends in American literature and cinema. These contemporary dystopias either conjoin a national crises with an ecological disaster as the source of the catastrophe or represent environmental recklessness as evidence of moral corruption, linking ecological and social injustice to the emergence of a Jewish theocracy. Offering an ecocritical reading of these novels, the article pinpoints the American cultural influence on the narratives. This thematic shift in Hebrew fiction, I argue, reflects a rising environmental awareness and positions literature as a major arena in which these issues are raised.

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Berger, Alan L. "AMERICAN JEWISH FICTION." Modern Judaism 10, no. 3 (1990): 221–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mj/10.3.221.

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Munby, Jonathan. "Manhattan Melodrama's “Art of the Weak”: Telling History from the Other Side in the 1930s Talking Gangster Film." Journal of American Studies 30, no. 1 (1996): 101–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875800024348.

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Ever since gangsters first appeared on the American screen (officially with D. W. Griffith's Musketeers of Pig Alley, in 1912) they have been involved in a prolonged battle with the forces of “legitimate” culture. Having fought their fights from the wrong side of the street gangsters have continually drawn attention to the line which separates legitimate from illegitimate Americans. This has raised problems in accounting for the gangster genre's significance. In stigmatizing the ethnic urban poor as criminal, the gangster genre betrays its origins in a nativist discourse which sought to cast “hyphenated” Americans as “un-American” and in need of “ Americanization. ” Yet, as perhaps the most powerful vehicle for the nationalization and popularization of ethnic urban American life, the gangster genre overturned many aspects of its iniquitous origin, playing an important part in the re-writing of American history from the perspective (and, as I shall demonstrate, quite literally in the voice) of the ethnic urban lower class.This contradiction is characteristic of the dynamic and changing role American popular culture artifacts play in the mediation of the nation's history. Regardless of the poetic and ideological licence gangster fictions take with the very real socio-historical problems of the ethnic urban poor, the central conflict which informs these narratives remains the question of social, economic, and cultural exclusion.

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Ferreira-Snyman, Anél, and Gerrit M. Ferreira. "The Application of International Human Rights Instruments in Outer Space Settlements: Today's Science Fiction, Tomorrow's Reality." Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal 22 (June 25, 2019): 1–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/1727-3781/2019/v22i0a5904.

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The military and commercial exploitation of outer space has received increasing international attention since the United States of America announced its intention to establish an outer space military force to protect its interests in outer space. Simultaneously, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and private enterprises such as Blue Origin and SpaceX declared plans to colonise the Moon and/or Mars in the near future. While technology is advancing rapidly to make these objectives a reality, the international legal rules related to these developments are completely uncertain, and in some instances non-existent. It is evident that these developments may have a direct impact on the internationally protected human rights of individuals, taking into account the extremely adverse conditions in outer space and the dangers involved in creating sustainable human living conditions in outer space. International discussion of and action on these legal issues are needed urgently. As a starting point, this contribution discusses the question of whether existing international human rights instruments enjoy extra-territorial application in outer space, given the current status of outer space law. In answering the question, a broad overview is presented of some human rights issues that may be relevant to living in outer space, and the role that the doctrine of effective control may play in this regard is analysed. 

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Roberts, R. "American Science Fiction and Contemporary Criticism." American Literary History 22, no. 1 (2009): 207–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajp048.

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Johnson, Brian David. "Beyond Science Fiction: The American Dream." Computer 49, no. 1 (2016): 91–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mc.2016.16.

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Rabkin, Eric S., James B. Mitchell, and Carl P. Simon. "Who Really Shaped American Science Fiction?" Prospects 30 (October 2005): 45–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361233300001976.

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Treating science fiction, critics have taught us to understand that the field shrugged itself out of the swamp of its pulp origins in two great evolutionary metamorphoses, each associated with a uniquely visionary magazine editor: Hugo Gernsback and John W. Campbell Jr. Paul Carter, to cite one critic among many, makes a case that Hugo Gernsback's magazines were the first to suggest thatscience fiction was not only legitimate extrapolation… [but] might even become a positive incentive to discovery, inspiring some engineer or inventor to develop in the laboratory an idea he had first read about in one of the stories. (5)Another, critic and author Isaac Asimov, argues that science fiction's fabledGolden Age began in 1938, when John Campbell became editor of Astounding Stories and remolded it, and the whole field, into something closer to his heart's desire. During the Golden Age, he and the magazine he edited so dominated science fiction that to read Astounding was to know the field entire. (Before the Golden Age, xii)Critics arrive at such understandings not only by surveying the field but also — perhaps more importantly — by studying, accepting, modifying, or even occasionally rejecting the work of other critics. This indirect and many-voiced conversation is usually seen as a self-correcting process, an informal yet public peer review. Such interested scrutiny has driven science fiction (SF) criticism to evolve from the letters to the editor and editorials and mimeographed essays of the past to the nuanced literary history of today, just as, this literary history states, those firm-minded editors helped SF literature evolve from the primordial fictions of Edgar Rice Burroughs into the sophisticated constructs of William S. Burroughs.

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Lock, Helen. "Getting into the Game: The Trickster in American Ethnic Fiction." Ethnic Studies Review 26, no. 1 (2003): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/esr.2003.26.1.1.

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Trickster novels, especially those by Gerald Vizenor and Maxine Hong Kingston, can be used to destabilize and undermine ethnic stereotypes. As many studies show, the trickster him/herself cannot be stable and thus resists the limitations of definition as the embodiment of ambiguity. Both insider and outsider, s/he plays with the whole concept of “sides” so as to erase the distinction between them. The trickster plays the game, including the game of language, in order to break and exploit its rules and thus destabilizes linguistic markers. Kingston and Vizenor use their novels to subvert the rules of the linguistic game and free perception from stereotypic rigidity. Perceptions of race and ethnicity are frequently codified in the form of stereotypes with which we are all familiar. Once established, they, of course, prove remarkably difficult to dismantle however false or misleading they might be with regard to the race or ethnicity in question; and thus they continue to exacerbate the social tensions with which we are equally familiar. Ethnic American literature has frequently addressed this issue; in this essay I intend to look at one narrative strategy which is specifically designed to question, challenge, exploit, and even manipulate perception.

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Carl Freedman. "A Useful Guide to American Science Fiction." Science Fiction Studies 42, no. 3 (2015): 590. http://dx.doi.org/10.5621/sciefictstud.42.3.0590.

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Wells, Bradley. "Review: American Science Fiction Film and Television." Media International Australia 137, no. 1 (2010): 161–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x1013700123.

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Skelton, Shannon Blake. "Alternate Americas: Science Fiction Film and American Culture." Journal of Popular Culture 40, no. 1 (2007): 192–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5931.2007.00372.x.

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Tobin, Stephen C. "Latin American Science Fiction Studies: A New Era." Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society 1, no. 1 (2018): 65–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2018.1497274.

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Trushell, John M. "American Dreams of Mutants: The X-Men-"Pulp" Fiction, Science Fiction, and Superheroes." Journal of Popular Culture 38, no. 1 (2004): 149–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-3840.2004.00104.x.

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Inloes, Amina. "A Muslim Reflection on Dangerous Games." American Journal of Islam and Society 33, no. 3 (2016): 138–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v33i3.930.

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For over two decades, a moral panic over fantasy role-playinggames has swept America, fuelled by a minority of fundamentalistChristians who have campaigned against games such as Dungeons& Dragons on the grounds that they led youth to Satanism, suicide,and violent crime. In his 2015 book, Dangerous Games: What theMoral Panic over Role-Playing Games says about Play, Religion,and Imagined Worlds, David Laycock explores why fantasy roleplayinggames seem similar enough to religion to provoke fear,as well as the dynamics of this moral panic. While he, apparently,did not set out to write a book about Islam, his insights about religion,fantasy, and narrative opened my eyes to the dynamics oftwentieth-century Islam. Additionally, as a Muslim reader livingduring a “moral panic” over Islam, Laycock’s analysis helped meunderstand that today’s Islamophobia in America has little to dowith Islam. Lastly, although Muslim gamers, fantasy/sciencefictionauthors, and game developers are usually underacknowledged,there is increasing interest in Muslims and fantasy/science-fiction. I hope to call attention to this invisible cohort.

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Staurowsky, Ellen J. "Privilege at Play: On the Legal and Social Fictions That Sustain American Indian Sport Imagery." Journal of Sport & Social Issues 28, no. 1 (2004): 11–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0193-723503261148.

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Rubin, Derek. "Postethnic Experience in Contemporary Jewish American Fiction." Social Identities 8, no. 4 (2002): 507–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1350463022000068352.

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Carol McGuirk. "Stanislaw Lem, Philip K. Dick, and American Science Fiction." Science Fiction Studies 45, no. 1 (2018): 211. http://dx.doi.org/10.5621/sciefictstud.45.1.0211.

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Molson, Francis J. "Great Marvel: The First American Hardcover Science Fiction Series." Extrapolation 34, no. 2 (1993): 101–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/extr.1993.34.2.101.

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Telotte, J. P. "American Science Fiction Film and Television (review)." Technology and Culture 52, no. 3 (2011): 658–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0093.

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Mongia, Padmini. "Speaking American: Popular Indian Fiction in English." Comparative American Studies An International Journal 12, no. 1-2 (2014): 140–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/1477570014z.00000000077.

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De Ferrari, Guillermina. "Science Fiction and the Rules of Uncertainty." Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 24, no. 1 (2020): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8190502.

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A frequent trope in apocalyptic literature is a war between time and knowledge. Focusing on Rita Indiana’s “cli-fi” novel La mucama de Omicunlé (Omicunlé’s Maid), this essay explores the ambiguous role that uncertainty plays in apocalyptic literature. It argues that time travel seeks to revert the result of negative actions in the past, eliminating uncertainty retrospectively. And yet moral freedom, the mark of the human, requires uncertainty to function, which thwarts time travel as a messianic genre. Yet even in failure, time travel reminds us that impending disaster is contingent on specific individual and collective action, suggesting that the future could still perhaps be otherwise.

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Gil, Noam. "The undesired: on nudniks in Jewish American fiction." Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 17, no. 3 (2017): 326–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2017.1406741.

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Brown, Gillian, and Marilyn R. Chandler. "Dwelling in the Text: Houses in American Fiction." Journal of American History 79, no. 3 (1992): 1166. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2080857.

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Trussler, Michael, and Stacey Olster. "Reminiscence and Re-Creation in Contemporary American Fiction." Journal of American History 77, no. 2 (1990): 742. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2079333.

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Atkins, Annette, and Carol Fairbanks. "Prairie Women: Images in American and Canadian Fiction." Journal of American History 73, no. 4 (1987): 1033. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1904098.

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Levin, David, and Emily Miller Budick. "Fiction and Historical Consciousness. The American Romance Tradition." Journal of American History 76, no. 4 (1990): 1231. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2936598.

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Siemers, David J. "The American Dream in History, Politics, and Fiction." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 48, no. 2 (2017): 277–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jinh_r_01149.

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Pastourmatzi, Domna. "Researching and Teaching Science Fiction in Greece." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 119, no. 3 (2004): 530–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/003081204x20613.

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In the dreams our stuff is made of, Thomas M. Disch talks about the influence and pervasiveness of science Fiction in American culture and asserts the genre's power in “such diverse realms as industrial design and marketing, military strategy, sexual mores, foreign policy, and practical epistemology” (11-12). A few years earlier, Sharona Ben-Tov described science fiction as “a peculiarly American dream”—that is, “a dream upon which, as a nation, we act” (2). Recently, Kim Stanley Robinson has claimed that “rapid technological development on all fronts combined to turn our entire social reality into one giant science fiction novel, which we are all writing together in the great collaboration called history” (1-2). While such diagnostic statements may ring true to American ears, they cannot be taken at face value in the context of Hellenic culture. Despite the unprecedented speed with which the Greeks absorb and consume both the latest technologies (like satellite TV, video, CD and DVD players, electronic games, mobile and cordless phones, PCs, and the Internet) and Hollywood's science fiction blockbuster films, neither technology per se nor science fiction has yet saturated the Greek mind-set to a degree that makes daily life a science-fictional reality. Greek politicians do not consult science fiction writers for military strategy and foreign policy decisions or depend on imaginary scenarios to shape their country's future. Contemporary Hellenic culture does not acquire its national pride from mechanical devices or space conquest. Contrary to the American popular belief that technology is the driving force of history, “a virtually autonomous agent of change” (Marx and Smith xi), the Greek view is that a complex interplay of political, economic, cultural, and technoscientific agencies alters the circumstances of daily life. No hostages to technological determinism, modern Greeks increasingly interface with high-tech inventions, but without locating earthly paradise in their geographic territory and without writing their history or shaping their social reality as “one giant science fiction novel.”

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Muir, Sharona, and Carl Abbott. "Frontiers Past and Future: Science Fiction and the American West." Western Historical Quarterly 38, no. 3 (2007): 379. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/25443566.

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Italiano, Federico. "Escaping the map: American science fiction and its cartographic imagination." European Journal of American Culture 39, no. 1 (2020): 29–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ejac_00009_1.

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The beginning of Space Age coincided with the global spread of a subterranean, post-apocalyptic imagination of the bunker. The coexistence of faith in technological progress and fear of a nuclear-caused self-annihilation created a tension between a claustrophilic and a claustrophobic relation to space that deeply shaped American spatial imagination. As I argue in this article, this spatial tension can be profitably illustrated by focusing on the cartographic imagination of science fiction produced in America between the 1950s and the 1980s. Drawing on David Seed and Fredric Jameson among others and focusing on both exemplary novels and films, this article shows to what extent Cold War American science fiction not only translates territorial anxieties into alternative universes or versions of the future, but spatially stages its inner conflict, the tension between a claustrophobic distress on the one hand and an unfulfilled claustrophilia on the other.

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Miller, Cynthia J. "Frontiers past and Future: Science Fiction and the American West." History: Reviews of New Books 34, no. 3 (2006): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03612759.2006.10526837.

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Gordon, Andrew. "The Inescapable Family in American Science Fiction and Fantasy Films." Journal of Popular Film and Television 20, no. 2 (1992): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01956051.1992.9943963.

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Goldberg, Jeanne P., and Sarah A. Sliwa. "Communicating actionable nutrition messages: challenges and opportunities." Proceedings of the Nutrition Society 70, no. 1 (2011): 26–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0029665110004714.

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As long as health communications have existed in the USA, Americans have faced the task of sorting the agenda of the source from the advice it provides. That task has become more complicated as advances in the science of nutrition and the technology used to present it have heightened the complexity of nutrition communications. Getting consumers to adopt a healthier diet has been a protracted undertaking with limited successes along the way. The obesity epidemic has added urgency to this discourse: not only do we need to eat better, but most of us also need to eat less. This paper reviews the dynamics that have made the communication of accurate and actionable health behaviour information an ongoing challenge, and outlines strategies for moving ahead. It considers the interplay of four sets of factors: the evolutionary nature of the science on which recommendations are based; the many sources of communication about that science; the agendas or motivations of each source; and finally the multifaceted nature of consumers, the recipients of these communications. Communication alone has not been, and will not be, sufficient for consumers to adopt the behavioural changes endorsed by experts. Broad environmental interventions coupled with individual skills development will need to be part of the process. Ultimately, it is the consumer who decides what is for dinner. Media literacy will play a critical role in building consumer efficacy in sorting fact from fiction in order to select food for a healthful diet.

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Malykh, V. S. "TRANSFORMATION OF A FAIRY TALE IN «HYBRID» SCIENCE FICTION (BASED ON AMERICAN AND RUSSIAN PROSE OF THE XXth CENTURY)." Russian Journal of Multilingualism and Education 12 (December 25, 2020): 99–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.35634/2500-0748-2020-12-99-109.

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The article introduces and substantiates the concept of «hybrid» science fiction, which combines the elements of science fiction and horror fiction. In «hybrid» fiction, science fiction surroundings cannot rationalize the text, but, on the contrary, they are replaced by motives of supernatural horror. «Hybrid» science fiction, in contrast to «hard» science fiction , develops the idea of unknowability of the Universe. It is worth mentioning here, that «hard» science fiction has been described well enough, but there is a shortage of research work in relation to its «hybrid» version, so this research can be considered as pioneering. We use E. M. Neyolov’s typology that describes the connection between a fairy tale and «hard» science fiction. Basing on this typology, we analyse «hybrid» fiction, in which science fiction scenery was replaced by the anti-rational principle. The research methodology involves a combination of structural, typological and comparative methods. As a material for the study, we use the works of such Russian and American authors as D. Glukhovsky, S. Lukyanenko, G. R. R. Martin, S. King, C. McCarthy, H. P. Lovecraft and others. The purpose of the article is to identify and describe the transformation of fairytale discourse in the works of these authors that leads to the genre transition from science fiction to horror fiction. The texts are being analysed from three points of view: system of characters, the structure of space and the direction of time. It is concluded that in «hybrid» science fiction the typological model of the fairy tale was distorted, reconsidered or destroyed, and it is the aberration of the fairytale motif that opens the gate for the genre transformation from «hard» science fiction to horror fiction. For example, the struggle of the superhero with the supervillain is traditional both for fairy tales and for science fiction, but it is replaced by psychologization of the hero and the extreme complication of the metaphysics of the Good and the Evil in «hybrid» science fiction . Besides that, the well-organized space of fairytale and science fiction as well as a close-cut separation of «ours» and «aliens», and also the mythologem of «threshold» are mixed in «hybrid» fiction and lose their symbolical unambiguity. Finally, science fiction and fairytale time in «hybrid» fiction ceases to exist and gives way to the tragic timelessness of chaos and nightmare. Thus, «hybrid» fiction destroys both the canons of «hard» science fiction and the constructs of the fairy tale genre.

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Malykh, V. S. "TRANSFORMATION OF A FAIRY TALE IN «HYBRID» SCIENCE FICTION (BASED ON AMERICAN AND RUSSIAN PROSE OF THE XXth CENTURY)." Russian Journal of Multilingualism and Education 12 (December 25, 2020): 99–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.35634/2500-0748-2020-12-99-109.

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The article introduces and substantiates the concept of «hybrid» science fiction, which combines the elements of science fiction and horror fiction. In «hybrid» fiction, science fiction surroundings cannot rationalize the text, but, on the contrary, they are replaced by motives of supernatural horror. «Hybrid» science fiction, in contrast to «hard» science fiction , develops the idea of unknowability of the Universe. It is worth mentioning here, that «hard» science fiction has been described well enough, but there is a shortage of research work in relation to its «hybrid» version, so this research can be considered as pioneering. We use E. M. Neyolov’s typology that describes the connection between a fairy tale and «hard» science fiction. Basing on this typology, we analyse «hybrid» fiction, in which science fiction scenery was replaced by the anti-rational principle. The research methodology involves a combination of structural, typological and comparative methods. As a material for the study, we use the works of such Russian and American authors as D. Glukhovsky, S. Lukyanenko, G. R. R. Martin, S. King, C. McCarthy, H. P. Lovecraft and others. The purpose of the article is to identify and describe the transformation of fairytale discourse in the works of these authors that leads to the genre transition from science fiction to horror fiction. The texts are being analysed from three points of view: system of characters, the structure of space and the direction of time. It is concluded that in «hybrid» science fiction the typological model of the fairy tale was distorted, reconsidered or destroyed, and it is the aberration of the fairytale motif that opens the gate for the genre transformation from «hard» science fiction to horror fiction. For example, the struggle of the superhero with the supervillain is traditional both for fairy tales and for science fiction, but it is replaced by psychologization of the hero and the extreme complication of the metaphysics of the Good and the Evil in «hybrid» science fiction . Besides that, the well-organized space of fairytale and science fiction as well as a close-cut separation of «ours» and «aliens», and also the mythologem of «threshold» are mixed in «hybrid» fiction and lose their symbolical unambiguity. Finally, science fiction and fairytale time in «hybrid» fiction ceases to exist and gives way to the tragic timelessness of chaos and nightmare. Thus, «hybrid» fiction destroys both the canons of «hard» science fiction and the constructs of the fairy tale genre.

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Roemer, K. M. "Future West: Utopia and Apocalypse in Frontier Science Fiction; Scare Tactics: Supernatural Fiction by American Women." American Literature 82, no. 1 (2010): 223–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-091.

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Fulton, Bruce, Heinz Insu Fenkl, and Walter K. Lew. "Kori: The Beacon Anthology of Korean American Fiction." Pacific Affairs 75, no. 4 (2002): 660. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4127398.

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Cho, A. "AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY MEETING: Laser Plays Chemical Matchmaker." Science 320, no. 5872 (2008): 42b—43b. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.320.5872.42b.

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Verdaguer, Pierre. "Borrowed Settings: Frenchness in Anglo-American Detective Fiction." Yale French Studies, no. 108 (2005): 146. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4149304.

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Brescia, Pablo. "The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction by Haywood Ferreira, Rachel." Romance Notes 54, no. 3 (2014): 435–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/rmc.2014.0081.

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López-Pellisa, Teresa. "Pandoric Dystopias in Latin American Science Fiction: Gynoids and Virtual Women." Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas 48, no. 1 (2015): 79–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08905762.2015.1020718.

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Chu, S. Y. "Science Fiction and Postmemory Hain in the Contemporary Korean American Literature." MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 33, no. 4 (2008): 97–121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/melus/33.4.97.

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Waugh, C. "Ritualistic Bear Slayings in American Fiction: A Rhizomic Ecocriticism." Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 13, no. 1 (2006): 25–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isle/13.1.25.

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Wajda, Shirley Teresa, and Susan S. Williams. "Confounding Images: Photography and Portraiture in Antebellum American Fiction." Journal of the Early Republic 19, no. 1 (1999): 164. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3124947.

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Topash-Caldwell, Blaire. "“Beam us up, Bgwëthnėnė!” Indigenizing science (fiction)." AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples 16, no. 2 (2020): 81–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1177180120917479.

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The popularity of Indigenous-authored science fiction art, literature, film, and even video games has exploded in recent years. More than just a niche interest, these works have material effects on the possibilities young Indigenous people envision for themselves. Contrary to research on the negative effects of Native American stereotypes on youth, positive representations of Native peoples found in Indigenous science fiction portray alternative futurisms to those represented in mainstream science fiction. Developed in concert with traditional knowledge and value systems, alternative futurisms as depicted in Indigenous science fiction forefront Indigenous agency in a genre where Indigeneity is either absent or made irrelevant. This article investigates the ways in which Indigenous science fiction creators leverage traditional knowledge systems to paint a picture of Indigenous futures that depart from mainstream science fiction in material ways.

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