Alexander McQueen's show, Plato's Atlantis, was based on a science fiction fantasy of human beings evolving into sea creatures once the ice caps melt.
Irving Howe devoted a page to parsing it in a piece for The New Republic, and it became a stand-in for a new, more programmatic and skeptical mode of reading, one that sought to divest fiction of all human presences.
His results awakened the world to the implications of the procedure and inspired a spate of science-fiction accounts of human clones.
Ignoring the science fiction scenarios of humans being transformed into paperclips or Terminator-esque robots exterminating humanity, we arrive at the present.
Roz Kaveney: Science fiction probes at religion Ken MacLeod: Science fiction opens up the universe Liz Williams: Science fiction reflects the extremes of human belief.
If anything he regards Holy Motors as a science-fiction movie; a parable of human relationships in the internet age.
Ms. Munro, widely beloved for her spare and psychologically astute fiction that is deeply revealing of human nature, appeared to be more of a purely literary choice.
Fiction explores the full spectrum of human emotions, and crime is virtually always driven by emotion, whether it's anger, desire, jealousy, or despair.
It presents an original science fiction concept, grapples with notions of human technology and ingenuity creating a monster, and features Captain Kirk beating the crap out of someone with a piece of Styrofoam.
Döblin's 1924 science fiction novel recounts the course of human history from the 20th to the 27th century, portraying it as a catastrophic global struggle between technological mania, natural forces, and competing political visions.
