Living in technical legality : science fiction and law as technology /
Kieran Tranter.
- 1 online resource (x, 242 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
- Edinburgh critical studies in law, literature and the humanities Edinburgh scholarship online .
- Edinburgh critical studies in law, literature and the humanities. Edinburgh scholarship online. .
Previously issued in print: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Through detailed readings of popular science fiction, including the novels of Frank Herbert and Octavia E. Butler and television's Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who, this is the first sustained examination of legality in science fiction. Kieran Tranter includes substantive worked examples of the law and legal concepts projected by these science fiction texts, such as Australian car culture, legal responses to cloning and the relationship between legal theory and science fiction. By examining science fiction as the culture of our total technological world, it journeys with the partially-consumed human into the belly of the machine.
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Science fiction--History and criticism. Law in literature. Technology in literature. Law. Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law.