Living in technical legality : science fiction and law as technology / Kieran Tranter.

9781474453707

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.

1 online resource (x, 242 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

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.

Print version :

English

May 04, 2023

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Specialized.