<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><i>Science Fiction and Narrative Form</i> by David Roberts, Andrew Milner and Peter Murphy has just been published by Bloomsbury (London, New York and Sydney). The book is inspired by - and is in a sense a sequel to Georg <span style="color:rgb(59,63,84);letter-spacing:-0.09px">Lukács's</span> <i>The Theory of the Novel</i>.</font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Details can be found at: <a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/science-fiction-and-narrative-form-9781350350748/" target="_blank">https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/science-fiction-and-narrative-form-9781350350748/</a>. </font></div><div> </div><div>ISBN: </div><div>HB: 978-1-3503-5074-8 </div><div>ePDF: 978-1-3503-5075-5 </div><div>eBook: 978-1-3503-5076-2 <span style="color:rgb(59,63,84);font-family:tiempostext;letter-spacing:-0.09px"><br></span></div><div><br></div><div>vi + 238 pp, 2023.</div><div><span style="color:rgb(59,63,84);font-family:tiempostext;letter-spacing:-0.09px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(59,63,84);font-family:tiempostext;letter-spacing:-0.09px">Locating science fiction as its own distinct and increasingly important narrative form, this book explores how the genre challenges pervasive perceptions of society as presented in the conventional modern novel. Inspired by, and building upon, Georg Lukács's criticism of the orthodox novel for its depiction of life as alienating and disjointed, Roberts, Milner and Murphy posit that science fiction steps beyond this contemporary form to be a more constructive literature, better able to conceive of society as complete, integrated and well-rounded. Taking stock of three kinds of science fiction which lie outside the scope of the modern novel - theological or ontological science fiction, the science fiction of future history and epic science fiction – this book demonstrates science fiction's unique capacity to encapsulate the whole world, persons and events, things and objects in a glance, and address the motive behind the wish for a meaningful totality.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(59,63,84);font-family:tiempostext;letter-spacing:-0.09px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(59,63,84);font-family:tiempostext;letter-spacing:-0.09px">With reference to a vast array of works by authors such as Michel Houellebecq, Elias Canetti</span><i style="color:rgb(59,63,84);font-family:tiempostext;letter-spacing:-0.09px;box-sizing:border-box">, </i><span style="color:rgb(59,63,84);font-family:tiempostext;letter-spacing:-0.09px">Isaac Asimov, Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, Marge Piercy, Iain M. Banks, Margaret Atwood, Ursula K. Le Guin, William Gibson, Dirk C. Fleck, Philip K. Dick, George Orwell and Kazuo Ishiguro, this book offers a compelling argument for rethinking the position and potential of the science fiction novel and to challenge the way we perceive our culture.</span><div class="gmail-yj6qo"></div><div class="gmail-adL" style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,5,5)"><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit"><br>
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