Psience Fiction

Psience Fiction

by Damien Broderick
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 11/05/2018

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Science fiction has often been considered the literature of futuristic technology: fantastic warfare among the stars or ruinous apocalypses on Earth. The last century, however, saw, through John W. Campbell, the introduction of "psience fiction," which explores such themes of mental powers as telepathy, precognition of the future, teleportation, etc.--and symbolic machines that react to such forces.


The author surveys this long-ignored literary shift through a series of influential novels and short stories published between the 1930s and the present. This discussion is framed by the sudden surge of interest in parapsychology and its absorption not only into the SF genre, but also into the real world through military experiments such as the Star Gate Program.

ISBN:
9781476631974
9781476631974
Category:
Psychic powers & psychic phenomena
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
11-05-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers

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