Suicide and Contemporary Science Fiction

Carlos Gutierrez-Jones (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Suicide and Contemporary Science Fiction
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
16 March 2015
Pages
201
ISBN
9781107100404

Suicide and Contemporary Science Fiction

Carlos Gutierrez-Jones (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Suicide and Contemporary Science Fiction examines the fascination with suicidal crises evident in a range of science fiction. Carlos Gutierrez-Jones argues that the theme of creative self-destruction is invoked by H. G. Wells as a means of negotiating Victorian anxieties regarding evolutionary theory, by Stanislaw Lem as he wrestles with the prospect of nuclear self-destruction at the dawn of the space age, by William Gibson as he considers the development of artificial intelligence, by Christopher Nolan as he explores the cybernetic colonization of the unconscious, by Rian Johnson as he links aspects of video gaming to the neoliberal militarization of institutions, and by Margaret Atwood as she considers impending ecological disaster and the rise of bioterrorism. These authors often depict such scientific and technological changes in a fashion that requires the central characters to transform themselves in hopes of remaining relevant in a radically altered environment.

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