The evolution of cyberpunk into postcyberpunk : the role of cognitive cyberspaces, wetware networks and nanotechnology in science fiction
Miranda Huereca, Rafael
Martín Alegre, Sara, dir. (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Filologia Anglesa i de Germanística)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Filologia Anglesa i de Germanística

Imprint:	[Barcelona] : Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2015
Description:	1 recurs electrònic (392 p.)
Abstract:	Science fiction became prominent in the 1920s and 30s with the publishing of Hugo Gernsback and John Campbell's pulp magazines, Amazing Stories and Astounding Stories, respectively, both of which focus for the first time exclusively on the genre. From that point onwards, diverse stages in the development of science fiction (sf) predicated a strong critique on human institutions and took up again the old concerns of philosophy in regard to the meaning of life and the definition of human nature. Following the so-called 'pulp era', the Golden Age of science fiction in the 1940s and 50s developed a blind faith on technology as the solution to the human plight, and examined diverse figures such as robotics, space opera1, cutting age weaponry and time travel as a way to explore the potentials of defamiliarized new worlds.
Note:	Tesi doctoral - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Filologia Anglesa i de Germanística, 2011
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Tesi doctoral ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Cyberspace ; Nanotechnology ; Wetware
ISBN:	9788449052958

Adreça alternativa: https://hdl.handle.net/10803/288302

392 p, 2.0 MB

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