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Holy night & other stories
This deluxe collector's hardcover includes four classic Battle Angel Alita stories never before published in English, plus special bonus material! At long last, complete your Alita collection! This volume contains four manga short stories by Alita creator Yukito Kishiro, first published in Japan from 1997 to 2006: Holy Night, Supersonic Fingers, Homecoming, and Barjack Rhapsody. Plus exclusive bonus material.
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Spiralling Out of a Shell: Fictioning more-than-machine listening
This article critiques the anthropocentric tendencies in machine listening practices and narratives, developing alternative concepts and methods to explore the more-than-human potential of these technologies through the framework of sonic fiction. Situating machine listening within the contemporary soundscape of dataveillance, the research examines post-anthropocentric threads that emerge at the intersection of datafication, subjectivation and animalisation. Theory and practice interweave in the composition of a music piece, The Spiral, enabling generative feedback between concept, sensation and technique. Specifically, the research investigates the figure of a mollusc bio-sensor between science fact and fable, as the (im)possible locus of musicality. This emergent methodology also offers new insights for other sound art and music practices aiming to pluralise what listening might be.
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Future Tense fiction : stories of tomorrow
\"A collection of electrifying original stories from a veritable who's-who of authors working in speculative literature and science fiction today.\"
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The role of science fiction perception on innovator: integrating the theory of planned behavior and social support network theory
PurposeThis study aims to explore the influence of science fiction on innovators and present a comprehensive model using the theory of planned behavior and social support theory to discuss the impact of science fiction on the intention of becoming an innovation worker.Design/methodology/approachPartial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was adopted in this study and responses were obtained from 244 Chinese innovators.FindingsThe results revealed the adequacy of the proposed model and the above-mentioned constructs in explaining innovation intention. Science fiction perception was found to influence the intention of becoming an innovation worker directly. Subjective norm, perceived behavioral control, and attitude directly influence the intention of becoming an innovation worker. Additionally, attitude is a mediator between science fiction perception and the intention of becoming an innovation worker. Moreover, social support network moderates the relationship between attitude and intention.Originality/valueThese results shed light on the mechanism by which science fiction influence innovators as well as provide critical managerial implications for policymakers and practitioners.
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Winter
Princess Winter, admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, teams up with the cyborg mechanic, Cinder, and her allies, to defeat Queen Levana and find their happily ever afters.
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From Parasite to Symbiont: Cyborg Identity, Ecological Agency and Posthuman Freedom in Suarez’s Daemon and Freedom
This article examines Daniel Suarez’s techno-thrillers Daemon (2006) and Freedom™ (2010) as works of speculative fiction that critically engage with themes of posthuman identity, algorithmic governance, and ecological agency. Rather than portraying artificial intelligence as a dystopian threat, the novels imagine the Daemon, which is a self-replicating system launched upon its creator’s death, as an infrastructural force that reorganizes global systems of power, labor, and survival. Through a posthumanist reading, drawing on thinkers such as Donna Haraway, Karen Barad, Rosi Braidotti, and N. Katherine Hayles, this article interprets the Daemon not as malevolent code, but as an ecological actor embedded in material networks, capable of fostering adaptive forms of life and governance. By reading Suarez’s fiction through the lens of posthuman ecocriticism and infrastructural media theory, the article offers a model for understanding freedom, not as a static right, but as a relational capacity earned through participation in sympoietic systems. It argues that speculative fiction can function as a cartographic tool, mapping not only future technologies but future ontologies.
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J. G. Ballard's Crash
Paul March-Russell, J. G. Ballard's Crash (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, 113pp, £34.99) Reviewed by Gwyneth Jones In the introduction to his study of J.G. Ballard's Crash (1973), Paul March-Russell cites - reminding us how potent the original work remains - both Julia Ducournau's techno-horror film Titane (featuring a 'sexual relationship between the cyborg protagonist and her car'), winner of the Palme d'Or in 2021, and Charli XCX, topping the UK/Australian charts in 2022 with an album entitled Crash that sports a cover image in which the singer sprawls, 'semi-naked' and bleeding, 'across a cracked windscreen'... Or had the sf-reading, and related movie-going, audience become so inured (along with everyone else) to the dire experience of hurtling (or creeping, nose to tail, trapped in a tail-back) on endless, looping bands of fused and pounded rock, in carapace-like shiny boxes, that the violence of Crash, print or movie version, seemed like normal entertainment? Crash swiftly became a 'cult' book, and then a 'must read' for sf fans (admittedly, this popularity may have owed much to Cronenberg's movie); to be followed by Concrete Island (1974) and High Rise (1975). Ballard had found his niche, though at the price (he feared) of abandoning popular success, and would have to accept his position as a major, avant-garde, intellectual sf writer.
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Claudia Bucher in Five Movements: Extended Sentience
For close to four decades, Claudia Bucher’s “scientart” has created myriad experiential habitats for her performing body, while inviting others to join her imaginary leaps. From personifying an outer-space lichen colony to meditating midair as an “anemochore kite,” Bucher demonstrates empathic kinships with other beings and nonbeings, calling forth alternative eco-systems in which sentience thrives as the common denominator for all inhabitants.
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Affectivity of 'Pants Science': Speculative Clothing, Disco Elysium and Pattern Recognition
According to the fashion arm of the Estonian game studio, atelier.zaumstudio.com, FALN track pants and hoodie are available occasionally for €239 and in extremely limited quantities, so that the dedicated player can also experience 'a unique form of continuity in space, engineered with the most advanced Mirovan textures for maximum performance and sweat absorption.'1 Stina Attebery has noted how clothing has been 'as much a defining characteristic of cyberpunk as its cyborg and hacker characters or narratives of opposition to corporate control' (Attebery 2020: 228). Made by Japanese aficionados, the jacket is purported to be 'a fanatical museum-grade replica' (Gibson 2003: 10) of actual jackets worn by US Air Force bomber pilots, 'as purely functional and iconic a garment as the previous century produced' (11 ). Lee Konstantinou has consequently argued that Pattern Recognition draws on 'economic and marketing theories' to observe how 'a new type of person [...] must arbitrate between, on the one hand, the Bohemian impulse to develop distinct stylistic codes as a means of separating oneself from the market and, on the other, the seemingly unlimited power of the market to decode and commodify individual style' (Konstantinou 2016: 224). The ease with which they are able to do so signals the power of capital over consumer choice:
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The Rendezvous of Literature and Artificial Intelligence: A Fortune or a Fiasco?
Literature advancing in an epoch of Artificial Intelligence, blur the boundaries between the human and machine potency. The authenticity of authorship and human creativity are posed with multiple challenges. On one hand, the horizon of literature expands and generate novel opportunities with AI while on the other, human creativity is subjected to precarity. The study primarily intends to navigate through multiple dimensions of literature merging with Artificial Intelligence in the backdrop of post humanism and, analyses whether it is a futuristic fortune or fiasco. It also aims to profoundly examine and distinguish between the Al-generated and Alassisted narratives emerging today through analogies of Al generated poetry, fiction and memoirs. The pursuit of Al narratology and the emergence of Al fiction generators confronts the existing literary theoretical framework relating to authorship and reader-reception. Moreover, the authorial status of human and Al narrations and the engagement of readers with such hybrid narratives undertakes a distinct literary turn in the contemporary era. This interdisciplinary nexus of human-AI coalition invites scrutiny in the aspects of narratology, construction of novel plotlines, nuanced interpretation of texts and becomes an inevitable part of the ongoing dialogue about the intersection of multiple disciplines.
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