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

Gitte Meyer

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-56577-4_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

Gitte Meyer

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Abstract

Some see literary Science Fiction as a possible vehicle for critical discussions about the future development and the ethical implications of science-based technologies. According to that understanding, literary Science Fiction constitutes a variety of science communication. Along related lines, popular science communication with science fiction features might be expected to serve a similar purpose. Only, it is far from obvious that it actually works that way.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Science Fiction, Ethics and the Human Condition
Editors	Christian Baron, Peter Nicolai Halvorsen, Christine Cornea
Number of pages	22
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer
Publication date	2017
Pages	59-80
Chapter	4
ISBN (Print)	9783319565750
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319565774
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56577-4_5
Publication status	Published - 2017

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Meyer, G. (2017). 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. In C. Baron, P. N. Halvorsen, & C. Cornea (Eds.), Science Fiction, Ethics and the Human Condition (pp. 59-80). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56577-4_5

Meyer, Gitte. / 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. Science Fiction, Ethics and the Human Condition. editor / Christian Baron ; Peter Nicolai Halvorsen ; Christine Cornea. Cham : Springer, 2017. pp. 59-80

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Meyer, G 2017, 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. in C Baron, PN Halvorsen & C Cornea (eds), Science Fiction, Ethics and the Human Condition. Springer, Cham, pp. 59-80. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56577-4_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. / Meyer, Gitte.
Science Fiction, Ethics and the Human Condition. ed. / Christian Baron; Peter Nicolai Halvorsen; Christine Cornea. Cham: Springer, 2017. p. 59-80.

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Meyer G. 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. In Baron C, Halvorsen PN, Cornea C, editors, Science Fiction, Ethics and the Human Condition. Cham: Springer. 2017. p. 59-80 doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-56577-4_5