The Ex-Human: Science Fiction and the Fate of Our Species
Michael Bérubé, "The Ex-Human: Science Fiction and the Fate of Our Species"
English | ISBN: 0231215045 | 2024 | 312 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 0231215045 | 2024 | 312 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Facing threats like climate change and nuclear warfare, science fiction authors have conjured apocalyptic scenarios of human extinction. Can such gloomy fates help us make sense of our contemporary crises? How important is the survival of our species if we wind up battling for an Earth that has become an unhabitable hellscape? What other possible futures do narratives of the end of humanity allow us to imagine?
Michael Bérubé explores the surprising insights of classic and contemporary works of SF that depict civilizational collapse and contemplate the fate of Homo sapiens. In a lively, conversational style, he considers novels by writers including Ursula K. Le Guin, Margaret Atwood, Liu Cixin, Philip K. Dick, and Octavia Butler, as well as films that feature hostile artificial intelligence, such as
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