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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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Chapter title
Commodified Life: Post-Humanism, Cloning and Gender in Orphan Black
Chapter number 7
Book title
Science Fiction, Ethics and the Human Condition
Published by
Springer, Cham, July 2017
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-56577-4_7
Book ISBNs
978-3-31-956575-0, 978-3-31-956577-4
Authors

Sherryl Vint, Vint, Sherryl

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Researcher 1 100%
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Philosophy 1 100%

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