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science fiction

📖 Definitions

"Even if the work of science fiction is contributing nothing to instigating novel perspectives towards the science, it still opens up the way for thinking about how that science could provide novel insight into imagined futures and imagined technologies that emphasize much more novel possibilities to be had from the science rather than the novelty embodied by the science itself." (Lee 2019, 713)

💡 Examples

  • Several sci-fi novels from 1970s

🔗 Relations

📚 References

  • Lee, Clarissa Ai Ling. 2019. “What Science Fiction Can Demonstrate About Novelty in the Context of Discovery and Scientific Creativity.” Foundations of Science 24 (4): 705–25. https: doi.org/10.1007/s10699-019-09615-6.