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Book Review
Book Review: Science Fiction and Psychology by Gavin Miller. Liverpool University Press, 2020
2022
Overview
[...]Miller reads Naomi Mitchison's Memoirs of a Spacewoman (1962) in the context of John Bowlby's attachment theory, thus finding in it 'a renewed feminist ethics of compassion', although it also 'colludes with the essentializing gender ideologies that haunt' evolutionary psychology. [...]Mitchison's Solution Three (1975) depicts a world in which homosexuality is state-mandated, and heterosexuality prohibited, a peaceful reality which is challenged both by Mitchison's continued use of Bowlby and by intertextual reference to John Christopher's The Death of Grass (1956). [...]Miller presents Ian Watson's The Embedding (1973) as a more sceptical narrative than either Samuel R. Delany's Babel-17 (1966) and Ted Chiang's 'Story of Your Life' (1998), eschewing their optimistic depiction of a kind of cognitive 'upgrade'through alien languages and instead suggesting that the limitations of language and cognition 'cast a phenomenal veil over an almost [possibly dangerously] ungraspable reality'.
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Science Fiction Foundation
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