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Science Fiction, Ethics and the Human Condition

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction: Science Fiction at a Crossroad Between Ethics and Imagination
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    Chapter 2 The Perfect Organism: The Intruder of the Alien Films as a Bio-fictional Construct
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    Chapter 3 Science Fiction at the Far Side of Technology: Vernor Vinge’s Singularity Thesis Versus the Limits of AI-Research
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    Chapter 4 A Greenhouse on Mars
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    Chapter 5 Fascinating! Popular Science Communication and Literary Science Fiction: The Shared Features of Awe and Fascination and Their Significance to Ideas of Science Fictions as Vehicles for Critical Debate About Scientific Enterprises and Their Ethical Implications
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    Chapter 6 Our Serial (and Parallel) Selves: Identity in the Age of the Transhuman
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    Chapter 7 Commodified Life: Post-Humanism, Cloning and Gender in Orphan Black
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    Chapter 8 Religion in a World of Androids and Aliens: Life and Death in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and Prometheus
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    Chapter 9 I Am Omega Man: Religious Repositioning of the Secular Apocalypse Film in I Am Legend
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    Chapter 10 From Isolationism to Globalism: An Overview of Politics and Ethics in the Hollywood Science Fiction Film
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    Chapter 11 Reinventing Utopia: Politics and Ethics of Choice in the Works of Kim Stanley Robinson
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    Chapter 12 The Final Frontier: Survival Ethics in Extreme Living Conditions as Portrayed in Tom Godwin’s The Cold Equations and Ridley Scott’s Alien
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    Chapter 13 The Politics of Post-Apocalypse: Ideologies on Trial in John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids
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    Chapter 14 On Ustopias and Finding Courage in a Hopeless Situation
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Title
Science Fiction, Ethics and the Human Condition
Published by
Springer International Publishing, January 2017
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-56577-4
ISBNs
978-3-31-956575-0, 978-3-31-956577-4
Editors

Christian Baron, Peter Nicolai Halvorsen, Christine Cornea

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Country Count As %
Unknown 22 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 18%
Lecturer 3 14%
Student > Master 3 14%
Other 2 9%
Student > Bachelor 2 9%
Other 4 18%
Unknown 4 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 7 32%
Philosophy 4 18%
Social Sciences 2 9%
Linguistics 1 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 5%
Other 2 9%
Unknown 5 23%