Science Fiction and the Modern World

The long nineteenth century was marked by a combination of political upheaval, technological transformation, and revolutionary scientific discovery that birthed a contradictory set of ideas about humanity’s place in the world and the scope of its power. Science Fiction in the Modern World reads the emergence of science fiction during this turbulent period as an expression of the ensuing recalibration of humanity’s understanding of its relationship to the natural world. Attending to a variety of