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Adventures in the Irreal: Science Fiction, Utopia and Contemporary Art Practice by Broadhurst, Kieron

“…Adventures in the Irreal is a practice-led investigation which explores the speculative possibilities of science fiction from within a contemporary art practice. …”
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Space opera: a hybrid form of science fiction and fantasy by Cupitt, Catherine Anne

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Beyond the Cyborg: Adventures with Donna Haraway by Grebowicz, M., Merrick, Helen

“…Sparked by their own personal “adventures” with Haraway’s work, the authors offer readings of her texts framed by a series of theoretical and political perspectives: feminist materialism, standpoint epistemology, radical democratic theory, queer theory, and even science fiction. …”
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Reframing philosophical views on freedom, choice, perfectibility and self-realisation in selected contemporary post-apocalyptic fictions by Zahra, Rezaei

“…Butler, Mara and Dann: An Adventure (1999) by Doris Lessing, The Road (2006) by Cormac McCarthy and The Pesthouse (2007) by Jim Crace, have been classified within post-apocalyptic fiction genre where the authors depict social and environmental disintegration in the far distant future. …”
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Techno-historical limits of the interface: the performance of interactive narrative experiences by Hutchison, Andrew

“…These exemplars are the interactive fiction Adventure, the interactive art work Osmose, the hypertext fiction Afternoon, a story, and the computer/video games Myst, Doom, Half Life and Everquest.The main argument of this thesis is that the technical limits of new media experiences cause significant ‘gaps’ in the reader’s experience of them, and that the cause of these gaps is the lack of a dedicated technology for new media, which instead ‘borrows’ technology from other fields. …”
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Platformalism: Finding the Forms of Platform Literature by Cox, George

“…These sub-genres develop forms found in print forebears—the letter in epistolary fiction, the flowchart in the Choose Your Own Adventure series of gamebooks, and the archive of unbound books in boxes respectively—and entwine them with the features of the platforms they are found on. …”
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Where are my legs? Embodiment Gaps in Avatars by Hutchison, Andrew

“…These include Interactive Fiction (Adventure [22] and Zork [23]), and Virtual Reality art (Char Davies' works Osmose and Ephemere [24] [25]). …”
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Spielberg and Kahn: film editing and narrative control through creative collaboration by Papathanasiou, Konstantinos

“…Be it drama, science fiction, adventure or horror, these patterns in structure have been ever-evolving and have shaped what has become widely known as 'a Spielberg film'. …”
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Epistemological provisionality as a generic feature of the British novel by Conley, Marcus

“…Mimesis-as-pharmakon is considered in the context of Tobias Smollett’s The Adventures of Roderick Random. Chapter four shifts critical focus to contemporary fiction -- Martin Amis’s Money: A Suicide Note -- and examines how postmodernist literary techniques, particularly the metafictional inclusion of an author figure, reiterate the novelistic portrayal and exemplification of epistemological provisionality that underlies eighteenth-century texts. …”
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