science fiction is not only a way to envision possible futures, , but a powerful way to think about the world we currently inhabit.

 

Inhabiting 21st-century science fiction

Students discover that the world-making of science fiction is not only a way to envision possible futures, but a powerful way to think about the world we currently inhabit.

School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Publication Date:

May 21, 2021

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nse that a cultural atmosphere of despair and turmoil — especially in American politics — was weighing on college students. She thought that the unbounded imagination and fresh avenues of science fiction would enable students to better see that “the present reality is not here forever — and that we have the power to change things.”