The Science Fiction Story as Life Metaphor

SF has also been infected by fantasy, which has become unaccountably popular. Very talented writers like Hannu Rajaniemi The Quantum Thief blend it with their hard science so that it is hard to tell where one stops and the other starts.

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But writers have often failed to grasp the impact that thinking machines will have — if and when they arrive. Writers like Will Hertling the Avogadro series and Daniel Suarez Daemon are finding new ways to explore the question of how humans will fare when the first super-intelligence arrives. Hollywood is joining in, with thoughtful movies like Her , Transcendence and Ex Machina.

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To give an idea of what I mean when I talk about disability metaphors and parallels, here are a handful of different approaches:. These also render him colorblind. Rogue is unable to touch someone without harming them. In the above examples, the authors drew conscious parallels.

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Take for example characters who are magically mind-wiped; who are brainwashed; who are under supernatural influence; who are artificially created Frankenstein, clones, androids … heck, take zombies. Many zombie stories come down to a kill-or-be-killed situation, but in others, zombies can be restrained and made harmless relatively easily. This is used as a gag at the end of Shaun of the Dead.

The metaphorical richness of science in fiction – (and the dangers of taking it literally)

I do want to point out that characters in the above categories are often stripped of agency and identity for reasons that are frightfully similar to the reasons given for dehumanizing disabled people in real life. The characters will give reasons like: Similar problems arise with other parallels. Characters may be disrespected, treated as burdens, or wallow in their own misery in ways that echo problematic portrayals of disabled people.

Or questions of treatment, of assistive tools, of accommodations, of community.