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  1. journals.sagepub.com › doi › 10Human Culture and Science Fiction: A Review of the Literature ...

    Aug 3, 2017 · Two characteristics of the use of science fiction in research became evident in the review: its role as a tool for advocacy and cultural insight and its effectiveness as an aid to learning and teaching.

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  2. journals.sagepub.com › doi › fullAn Empirical Revision of the Definition of Science Fiction ...

    Oct 9, 2020 · A recent review found science fiction is increasingly used as source material for research with intentionally public relevance and consequences (Menadue & Cheer, 2017).

    • Christopher Benjamin Menadue, Kristi Giselsson, David Guez
    • 2020

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  4. www.rigb.org › explore-science › exploreHow science fiction influenced science fact | Royal Institution

    Jan 18, 2023 · The influence of particular works of science fiction extends beyond the realm of technology and can even shape scientific investigations. Take, for example, the black hole simulation developed for Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar.

  5. link.springer.com › chapter › 10Reading Science: SF and the Uses of Literature | SpringerLink

    Nov 27, 2020 · This chapter pulls together theoretical and epistemological resources for thinking about science fiction (SF) as a site of contemporary engagement with technoscience. SF can be read as a method for tracing popular constructions of science’s stories about collective futures.

    • Amy C. Chambers, Lisa Garforth
    • 2020

  6. royalsocietypublishing.org › doi › 10New ways: the pandemics of science fiction | Interface Focus

    Oct 12, 2021 · This paper demonstrates that science fiction can be a valuable tool to communicate widely around a pandemic, while also acting as a creative space in which to anticipate how we may handle similar events in the future.

    • Glyn Morgan
    • 2021

  7. www.nature.com › articles › s41599/021/00939-yThe role of literary fiction in facilitating social science ...

    Nov 3, 2021 · This unequal engagement provides the occasion for this paper, which seeks to clarify the ways social scientists might draw influence from literary fiction in the development of their own work as...

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  9. journals.openedition.org › socio › 7735Making Science, Making Scientists, Making Science Fiction: On ...

    Most work on the relationship between science and science fiction focuses on how science fiction can advance science by speculatively elaborating scientific theories.