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Modern Myth Creation in the Science Fiction of Wells, Clarke, Dick and Herbert

出版	Macquarie University, Faculty of Arts, Department of English, 2015
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ynymAQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Chapter 1 will examine the intersection of traditional religion and evolutionary science in the early works of H.G. Wells. Wells's SF denigrates traditional Christanity. However, in responding to debates in science and philosophy over the future of human society, his works tend to reinscribe spiritual myths. Chapter 2 will illustrate that conflicting vitalist and materialist discourses in the writings of biologist J.B.S. Haldane inform the mixed myths produced in Arthur C. Clarke's early novels, particularly Childhood's end and the Space odyssey series. In contrast to the scientifically motivated perpetuation of spiritual myths in the early works of Clarke, Chapter 3 will examine the deliberate engagement in religious myth-making in Philip K. Dick's SF. It will be argued that Dick's SF draws explicitly from a vast range of philosophical and religious works, ranging from the Presocratics to Herbert Marcuse, to resist capital ideologies and construct myths of divine intervention. Finally, Chapter 4 will examine the extirpation of the messiah myth in Frank Herbert's Dune series, which draws on the works of Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers to advocate an authentic understanding of being-in-the-world and promote democratic co-operation.