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Jan 3, 2018 · When Science Fiction Meets Social Science. Sci-fi author Ada Palmer explains why she goes less into the details of antimatter engines and more into sociological questions of of state formation ...
Social science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction, usually (but not necessarily) soft science fiction, concerned less with technology/space opera and more with speculation about society. In other words, it "absorbs and discusses anthropology" and speculates about human behavior and interactions.
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Significance. Social science fiction is noteworthy on several levels: first, as a cultural phenomenon; second, as a medium of social commentary and criticism; and third (perhaps parenthetically) as a pleasant counterpoint to some of the more pedantic complacencies of the social scientists.
Jan 31, 2023 · Literature can apply fictions to social or political science to enable further interpretations of reality through depictions of the everyday life, and ordinary phenomena. In this, it can also tell us a lot of truths, contributing to a deeper understanding of “cause and effect” established in more factual modalities (Rancière 2019 : 8, 10).
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Sep 24, 2021 · “Science fiction enables us to try out, in literature, very different sets of social arrangements,” he says, “and through the medium of story maybe even get beyond that...
the science fiction mainstream. Our course will re-enact this pivot within the genre as we jump ahead in time for the last several weeks in order to focus on contemporary fiction and secondary criticism, and to interrogate how science fiction continues to engage with the social issues confronted in the genre’s foundational texts. Course Goals
Thus, in an essay on Robin Cook, Thomas Dunn has used the term "social science fiction" to mark off a brand of socially conscious and committed sf; while in an essay on Blade Runner (1982), Yves Chevrier has coined the term. "sociology-fiction" to map the relationship between aesthetic and political. modalities.
