SCIENCE FICTION THE WONDER OF HUMAN IMAGINATION - Softcover

Sofroniou, Andreas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0244934096 ISBN 13: 9780244934095

Verlag: Lulu.com, 2017

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Science Fiction explores the probable consequences of some improbable or impossible transformation of the basic conditions of human (or intelligent non-human) existence. This transformation need not be a technological invention, but may be some mutation of known biological or physical reality: artificial or extraterrestrial life-forms and travel through time are favourite subjects. Science Fiction stories may involve Utopian political speculation, or satire, but most rely on the marvellous appeal of fantasy. The term Science Fiction was first given general currency by Hugo Gernsback, editor of the popular Amazing Stories magazine from 1926. Once uniformly dismissed as pulp trash, SF gained greater respect from the 1950s, as writers like Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, and John Wyndham expanded its range; themes of alien invasion and brain-washing became especially popular at the height of the Cold War.

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For more than sixty years, Andreas Sofroniou is a consultant for the solution of personal, systems and organisational problems. He is a retired UK/USA Clinical Psychotherapist, a UK/EU Chartered Engineer and a Life Fellow of the international Institute of Directors. Andreas is the author of 145 books pertaining to Fiction, Poetry, Social Sciences, Business Management and Information Technology.

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• Verlag: Lulu.com
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0244934096
• ISBN 13: 9780244934095
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 116
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