Journal of Cultural Analytics (Sep 2017)

Towards a Poetics of Strangeness: Experiments in Classifying Language of Technological Novelty

  • Michael Simeone,
  • Advaith Gundavajhala Venkata Koundinya,
  • Anandh Ravi Kumar,
  • Ed Finn

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1

Abstract

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The trajectory of science fiction since World War II has been defined by its rela-tionship with technoscientific imaginaries. In the Golden Age of the 1930s and 1940s, writers like Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein dreamed of the robots and