Living in technical legality science fiction and law as technology
Through detailed readings of popular science fiction, including the novels of Frank Herbert and Octavia E. Butler and television's Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who, this is the first sustained examination of legality in science fiction. Kieran Tranter includes substantive worked examples of...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2020, 2020
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| Series: | Edinburgh critical studies in law, literature and the humanities / Edinburgh critical studies in law, literature and the humanities
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| Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Through detailed readings of popular science fiction, including the novels of Frank Herbert and Octavia E. Butler and television's Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who, this is the first sustained examination of legality in science fiction. Kieran Tranter includes substantive worked examples of the law and legal concepts projected by these science fiction texts, such as Australian car culture, legal responses to cloning and the relationship between legal theory and science fiction. By examining science fiction as the culture of our total technological world, it journeys with the partially-consumed human into the belly of the machine |
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| Item Description: | Previously issued in print: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018 |
| Physical Description: | x, 242 pages illustrations (black and white) |
| ISBN: | 9781474453707 |