Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) was a Russian American scientist, poet, translator, and professor of literature. The interviews in this collection are essential for seeking a clearer understanding of the life and work of an author who was pivotal in shaping the landscape of contemporary fiction.Ĭonversations with Vladimir Nabokov brings together candid, revealing interviews with one of the twentieth century’s master prose writers. Categories: History The American Popular Novel After World War II Ultimately, Presenting Futures Past explores what SF can tell us about the histories of the future, how different communities have envisaged their futures, and how SF conveys the socioscientific claims of past presents. The essays consider the role played by SF in the history of specific scientific disciplines, topics, or cultures, as well as the ways in which it has helped to move scientific concepts, methodologies, and practices between wider cultural areas. Taking a global approach, Presenting Futures Past examines the ways in which SF can be used to investigate the cultural status and authority afforded to science at different times and in different places. Both SF and the history of science are oriented towards the (re)construction of unfamiliar worlds both are fascinated by the ways in which natural and social systems interact both are critically aware of the different ways in which the social (class, gender, race, sex, species) has inflected the experience of the scientific.
The protagonists of these two enterprises have a lot in common. This volume of Osiris focuses on the relationship between a particular genre of storytelling-science fiction (SF), told through a variety of media-and the history of science.
The role of fiction in both understanding and interpreting the world has recently become an increasingly important topic for many of the human sciences. 18Michael Crichton, television interview by Charlie Rose, Charlie Rose, PBS, 26 December 1996 published in Robert Golla, ed., Conversations With Michael Crichton (Jackson, Miss., 2011), 119 Golla writes that “the interviews herein .
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