Imagination and Evolution: A Truer History of Science Fiction
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Pierce, John J. Imagination and Evolution: A Truer History of Science Fiction. Tarzana, USA: Black Coat Press, 2026.
A comprehensive history of SF to date, balancing Darko Suvin et al. on cognitive estrangement[1] with cognitive and emotional engagement and applying in its complete form S. T. Coleridge's idea, primarily from Biographia Literaria chapter XIV, summarized in academic folk culture as "making the familiar strange and the strange familiar."[2] Centrally, Pierce accepts the idea of a genre as an extended conversation in a culture and is quite serious in his title, applying evolutionary analysis to SF as conversation among evolving products of cultural evolution.
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