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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Main Author: Tranter, Kieran
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2020, 2020
Series:Edinburgh critical studies in law, literature and the humanities / Edinburgh critical studies in law, literature and the humanities
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