{"product_id":"no-cure-for-the-future","title":"No Cure for the Future","description":"Speculations about new medical advances have been a crucial aspect of science fiction since its origins in the 19th century, when such novels as \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Island of Dr. Moreau\u003c\/i\u003e provided powerful mythic images of doctors with godlike abilities to create and transform human life. This book is the first full-length study of the speculative literature of medicine, with contributions by two science fiction novelists and several noted scholars. Chapters examine how science fiction stories have commented on and influenced the medical establishments of the past and present. But the volume also considers the strangely marginalized status of medical science fiction, concluding that the doctor's traditional focus on maintaining the health of the human body conflicts at a fundamental level with the genre's desire to transcend the human body.\n\nThe first section provides broad surveys of the history of medical science fiction, ranging from 19th-century classics to major films of the 1990s. The second offers detailed examinations of important texts and series, including Guy de Maupassant's \u003ci\u003eLe Horla,\u003c\/i\u003e George Orwell's \u003ci\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four,\u003c\/i\u003e James White's Sector General stories, the \u003ci\u003eAlien\u003c\/i\u003e films, and the \u003ci\u003eTerminator\u003c\/i\u003e films. A concluding bibliography lists more than 500 science fiction and fantasy novels, stories, films, and television programs involving disease and medicine as well as relevant nonfiction works and critical studies.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54219559829848,"sku":"9780313317071","price":70.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/no-cure-for-the-future","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}