Science fiction imagines the impact of these trends on the social structures of the future. In contrast, sociologists focus on the roles that economics, the different ways of structuring a society ...

The 20th century has seen the growth of the social sciences and the "humane sciences" as one of its more important developments in speculative thought, a fact increasingly reflected in the concepts of ...

This question of consciousness is particularly acute when dealing with the audience for a literature like science fiction, with its pretensions towards social criticism. Just what critique of society ...

Science fiction allows artists to speculate about the future through ... we already have the technical ability to solve the twin crises of climate and energy. Now, we need new, robust social and ...

Because science fiction spans the spectrum from the plausible ... the ansible) or to enable social commentary, the way H. G. Wells uses his time machine to take the reader to the far future ...

Today’s science fiction, he argues ... greatest contribution is showing how new technologies function in a web of social and economic systems—what authors call “worldbuilding.” ...