Extreme Fabulations by Steven Shaviro - 9781912685882

Extreme FabulationsAuthor(s): Steven Shaviro\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom\nImprint: Goldsmiths, University of London\nISBN-13: 9781912685882, 978-1912685882\nSynopsis\nAn examination of science fiction narratives and the light they shed on human life, the unknowable future, and the vagaries of unforeseeable change.\n\nWith this book, Steven Shaviro offers a thought experiment. He discusses a number of science fiction narratives: three novels, one novella, three short stories, and one musical concept album. Shaviro not only analyzes these works in detail but also uses them to ask questions about human, and more generally, biological life: about its stubborn insistence and yet fragility; about the possibilities and perils of seeking to control it; about the aesthetic and social dimensions of human existence, in relation to the nonhuman; and about the ethical value of human life under conditions of extreme oppression and devastation.\n\n.