Description
This book explores the relationship between reading science in fiction and engaging with science. Focusing on embodied readers and empirical approaches to fiction reading, the authors examine contemporary social, cultural, biographical and political contexts in which science fictions come to matter. Drawing together a distinctive set of research studies and conceptual resources, the book outlines theories, epistemologies and methodologies for understanding how and why we read science fictions and fictions about science.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Reading science/fiction: an introduction.- Chapter 2 Making science fiction readers.- Chapter 3 Reading together: remaking worlds with science fiction.- Chapter 4 Book Clubs: Bad Bugs and bioscience fictions.- Chapter 5 Research methods, meeting readers: concluding thoughts.
