Literatura sf ca modalitate de cunoaștere a științei și mentalității unei epoci: Rodica-Gabriela Chira, Autres Mondes. Approches Science-Fiction
SF literature as a way of knowing the science and mentality of an epoch: Rodica-Gabriela Chira, Autres Mondes. Approches Science-Fiction

Summary/Abstract: The book brings together fifteen unequal size studies on science fiction literature. From various angles – past-present connections, games of the imagination through speculative fiction or science fantasy, comic and science-fiction, the sacred and science fiction, utopia and dystopia, machinery and science fiction, the interdisciplinary - a couple of novels, short stories and a SF poem belonging to authors coming from the French, English, American and Romanian spaces are analyzed. In chronological order, these authors are: Cyrano de Bergerac, Louis Desnoyers, Jules Verne, Edwin A. Abbott, Philip José Farmer, Jacques Sternberg, Stefan Wul, Constantin Cubleşan, Ayerdhal, Suzanne Collins, Serge Lehman, Lucian -Dragoş Bogdan. The volume offers personal interpretations with the intention to show there is no break between the past and the present, the evolution of humanity being framed in a perpetual flow; it also shows that the possibility of finding the whole in the parts and the parts in the whole has existed forever, the forms of awareness being adapted to each epoch.

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