Watch our conversation with Anastasia Klimchynskaya on the emergence of science fiction. We explore how this genre came into the light of day in the nineteenth century – a turbulent epoch that saw dozens of revolutions, the advent of mass print culture, the professionalization of science, the development of disciplines such as sociology, historiography, and statistics, and a new attitude toward the future as a subject of serious collective interest and anticipation.
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