Titlebook: Science Fiction and the Moral Imagination; Visions, Minds, Ethi Russell Blackford Book 2017 Springer International Publishing AG 2017 Ethic

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Aliens, Robots, Mutants, and Others,ake the form of extraterrestrial or more local alien species, robots (and other artificially intelligent beings), or mutants. SF authors deploy all these for a range of effects and with a range of meanings, though the archetypal stories involve invasion by aliens, rebellion by robots, and the social

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Conclusion: Great Power and Great Responsibility,tion depicts enormous structures and feats of engineering, the fates of entire planets or species, vast wars in space carried out with superweapons, and immensely consequential decisions of all kinds. All of this can evoke awe, or a sense of wonder, but at its most tawdry it is a (probably harmless)

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Introduction: Science and the Rise of Science Fiction,ts main themes include the uses of technoscience and the effects of technological change. Science fiction writers have employed the characteristic tropes of SF to engage with a wide variety of philosophical and moral questions.

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Aliens, Robots, Mutants, and Others,gh Intelligent Others are most often threatening or monstrous, they also have a certain allure and are often depicted sympathetically. This creates a pressure for science fiction writers to move beyond anthropocentric ethics.