The im/mortality of the future: Nedyalka Mihova and Dmitry Glukhovsky Cover Image

Без/смъртността на бъдещето: Недялка Михова и Дмитрий Глуховски
The im/mortality of the future: Nedyalka Mihova and Dmitry Glukhovsky

Author(s): Elena Borisova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Bulgarian Literature
Published by: Шуменски университет »Епископ Константин Преславски«
Keywords: Bulgarian contemporary literature; science fiction; human enhancement; immortality

Summary/Abstract: Are we so insatiable and greedy, that we will never be satisfied? The article presents the way in which Nedyalka Mihova`s „The Stars Come Closer“ and Dmitry Glukhovsky`s „Future“ rationalize and represent future human immortality through extreme artistic images. The study focuses on the ways in which science fiction foresees the biotechnological enhancement of the human body, manipulation of the human genome and the future tendenies of changing Homo sapiens' body and his nature.