“The outermost quadrant of the constellation” – astronomy in science fiction
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Keywords

science fiction
thought experiment
astronomy in literature
hypothetical thinking

How to Cite

Leś, M. M. (2021). “The outermost quadrant of the constellation” – astronomy in science fiction. Bibliotekarz Podlaski, 52(3), 45–76. https://doi.org/10.36770/bp.622

Abstract

As the author of the article claims, there exist close and lasting links between astronomy and science fiction genre. First and foremost, both of these phenomena developed in parallel since antiquity, and both have fiction at their centre as a socially established type of imagination. Scientific hypotheses use justified fabrication, and science fiction offers images of fictional cosmologies. Many writers of proto-science fiction brought astronomical concepts into social play. Among them were astronomers and philosophers who extensively used plot devices based on mythology or allegorical transformations: from Lucian of Samosata to Johannes Kepler. Space travel, beginning with Jules Verne’s prose, is an important part of the thematic resource of science fiction. Astronomy played an important role also in the beginnings of Polish science fiction, thanks to works of Michał Dymitr Krajewski and Teodor Tripplin. 

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