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  title info:
    title: Pseudoscience and science fiction
  name:
    name part: May, Andrew (Andrew James)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: sz
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 181 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Aliens, flying saucers, ESP, the Bermuda Triangle, antigravity--are we talking about science fiction or pseudoscience? Sometimes it is difficult to tell the difference. Both pseudoscience and science fiction (SF) are creative endeavours that have little in common with academic science, beyond the superficial trappings of jargon and subject matter. The most obvious difference between the two is that pseudoscience is presented as fact, not fiction. Yet like SF, and unlike real science, pseudoscience is driven by a desire to please an audience--in this case, people who "want to believe". This has led to significant cross-fertilization between the two disciplines. SF authors often draw on "real" pseudoscientific theories to add verisimilitude to their stories, while on other occasions pseudoscience takes its cue from SF--the symbiotic relationship between ufology and Hollywood being a prime example of this. This engagingly written, well researched and richly illustrated text explores a wide range of intriguing similarities and differences between pseudoscience and the fictional science found in SF.
  table of contents: Charles Fort and the Forteans -- Anomalous phenomena -- High-tech paranoia -- Flying saucers -- Mind power -- Spaces drives and anti-gravity -- Technology of the ancients -- Conspiracy theories -- Index.
  note: Andrew May.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Pseudoscience
  subject:
    topic: Science fiction
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Parasciences
  subject:
    topic: Pseudoscience
  subject:
    topic: Science fiction
  classification: Q172.5.P77 M39 2017
  classification: 001.9
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Science and fiction (Springer (Firm))
  identifier: 9783319426044
  identifier: 3319426044
  identifier: 9783319426051
  identifier: 3319426052
  identifier: 2016952248
  record info:
    record content source: BTCTA
    record creation date: 160623
    record change date: 20260331173042.1
    record identifier: in00005777331
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng