Michel Serres: Science, fiction, and the shape of relation
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Michel Serres's topological form of analysis explores the complex relationship between the realms, such as science and fiction, mathematics and mythology, and his work on global telecommunications explores the social bonds within the network of quasi-objects, expressing the vital relationship between the global and the local. Serres's account of quasi-objects that reads technological communication as consecutive of a philosophically reconfigured intersubjectivity can be used to read Geoof Ryman's recent novel Air (2005).
Publication Name: Science Fiction Studies
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0091-7729
Year: 2006
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The Strugatskys in political context
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The Strugatsky brothers started their career in the early 1960s as writers of genial and down-to-earth utopian science fiction and their novels 'Hard to Be a God' and 'The Final Circle of Paradise' were popular successes. In the early 1970s, they attempted to write more popular works and in the 1980s, they were the most popular Soviet writers despite the boycotts and slander campaigns and their oeuvre was the only one continuously and completely in print by Russian sf writers.
Publication Name: Science Fiction Studies
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0091-7729
Year: 2004
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Fables of desire
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The phenomenon of the Strugatsky brothers' enduring popularity in Soviet and in post-Soviet Russia is analyzed. Their novel, 'Roadside Picnic' (1972) is compared with its film version, Stalker (1979), made by Andrei Tarkovsky, and although the film is considered as a masterpiece of world cinema, it has become outdated and allegory has lost out to fantasy.
Publication Name: Science Fiction Studies
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0091-7729
Year: 2004
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