Building Yesterday's Future for Everyone: Academic Selections from the 2025 World Science Fiction Convention
暫譯: 為每個人建構昨日的未來：2025年世界科幻大會學術選集
Van Belle, Douglas A.
- 出版商: Springer
- 出版日期: 2026-06-23
- 售價: $7,360
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $6,992
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 281
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 9819218306
- ISBN-13: 9789819218301
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商品描述
The book presents selected papers from the Academic Track of the World Science Fiction Convention 2025. The academic part of the conference is held as an integral part of the one of the largest genre conventions in the world. In bringing academics, scientists, creatives and the most engaged of fans together, it provides a uniquely eclectic cross-section of the cutting-edge research associated with the genre and speculative fiction more broadly conceived, producing insights that transcend intellectual barriers and catalyse new approaches to engaging the genre of science fiction, and its impact upon society. In presenting some of the best of this eclectic research, the book shows how the study of the genre transcends academic boundaries. It also provides a snapshot of the extreme variety of the latest research into the genre. It is relevant to researchers and students in literature as well as reception theory, specifically to those with a particular interest in science fiction. It also extends to scholars in comparative literature, and to those studying the intersection of science and the arts more broadly.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
本書呈現了2025年世界科幻大會學術專題的選定論文。會議的學術部分作為全球最大類型大會之一的不可或缺的一部分舉行。透過將學者、科學家、創意工作者和最熱情的粉絲聚集在一起，它提供了一個獨特的多元交叉視角，展示與該類型及更廣泛的推測小說相關的前沿研究，產生超越智識障礙的見解，並催化對科幻類型及其對社會影響的新方法。在展示這些多元研究的最佳成果時，本書顯示了該類型研究如何超越學術界限。它還提供了對該類型最新研究極大多樣性的快照。對於文學及接受理論的研究者和學生來說，這本書具有相關性，特別是對於那些對科幻小說有特別興趣的人。此外，它也擴展到比較文學的學者，以及更廣泛研究科學與藝術交集的人士。
作者簡介
Douglas A. Van Belle is a multi-disciplinary scholar with a diverse research portfolio. Publications include: simulations of international politics, rational choice and revolutionary collective action, global media freedom, the social nature of science and SETI, Palaeontology and scientific progress in the Social Sciences, media's influence on foreign aid bureaucracies, international information flows and the necessary conditions for the adoption of disaster risk reduction policies, the role of science fiction in society, and the use of science fiction to teach politics. He is currently examining how science fiction as thought experiment shapes its role in the conceptual space between science and society. The diversity of his expertise is driven by his creative works, including several science fiction novels, as well has his introduction to politics textbook, A Novel Approach to Politics, which is in its 7th edition. His latest novel, A World Adrift, is set in the skies of Venus, 800 years after it was first colonized, and explores the human impact of the politics of extreme resource scarcity. Doug spent 11 Years as the Editor-in-Chief of first Foreign Policy Analysis (Oxford) and then International Studies Perspectives (Oxford), and was previously the series editor for Foreign Policy Analysis (Routledge).
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
道格拉斯·A·范貝爾（Douglas A. Van Belle）是一位多學科學者，擁有多樣的研究領域。其出版作品包括：國際政治的模擬、理性選擇與革命集體行動、全球媒體自由、科學的社會性與搜尋外星智慧生命（SETI）、古生物學與社會科學中的科學進步、媒體對外援助官僚機構的影響、國際資訊流動及災害風險減少政策採納的必要條件、科幻小說在社會中的角色，以及利用科幻小說教授政治。他目前正在研究科幻小說作為思維實驗如何塑造其在科學與社會之間概念空間中的角色。他的專業多樣性受到其創作作品的驅動，包括幾部科幻小說，以及其政治學教材《新穎的政治方法》（A Novel Approach to Politics），該書已進入第七版。他的最新小說《漂流的世界》（A World Adrift）設定在金星的天空中，距離首次殖民已過800年，探討極端資源稀缺政治對人類的影響。道格花了11年擔任《外交政策分析》（Foreign Policy Analysis，牛津）和《國際研究觀點》（International Studies Perspectives，牛津）的主編，並曾擔任《外交政策分析》（Foreign Policy Analysis，勞特利奇）的系列編輯。
