Personal genome testing, gene editing for life-threatening diseases, synthetic life: once the
stuff of science fiction, twentieth-and twenty-first-century advancements blur the lines …

This article raises questions about the aesthetics of scale as they appear relative to
genetically modified organisms in science fiction and especially in Paolo Bacigalupi's The …

This article critically examines the development and current state of speculative bioethics
(bioethics discourse concerned with future technologies) as reflecting an intensifying …

Imagining, forecasting and predicting the future is an inextricable and increasingly important
part of the present. States, organizations and individuals have to almost continuously make …

Bioethics is a term that ranges over a rather diverse set of people, institutions, practices and
areas of inquiry, and therefore speaking generally about bioethics introduces its own …

Participants in the long-running bioethical debate over human germline genetic modification
(HGGM) tend to imagine future people abstractly and on the basis of conventionalized …

This book presents a case for engagement between the sciences and the humanities. The
author, a professional chemist, seeks to demonstrate that the connections between those …

This thesis presents the first cognitive-poetic account of the dystopian short story and
investigates the experience of dystopian reading. In doing so, it takes a mixed-methods …

This essay examines Ishiguro's latest novel, The Buried Giant, within the context of the
recent turn to genre in contemporary Anglophone fiction. Specifically, it examines how a late …

This article explores the various reasons science-fictional references feature so prominently
in bioethical debate, particularly regarding emerging reproductive biotechnologies. It will …