TY - BOOK ID - 77941523 TI - World weavers AU - Wong, Kin-yuen AU - Westfahl, Gary AU - Chan, Amy Kit-sze PY - 2005 SN - 1282707388 9786612707384 9882203124 9789882203129 9789622097216 9622097219 9789622097223 9622097227 9781282707382 6612707380 PB - Hong Kong Hong Kong University Press DB - UniCat KW - Cybernetics in literature. KW - Science fiction KW - History and criticism. KW - Science-fiction KW - Cybernétique dans la littérature KW - Histoire et critique UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77941523 AB - World Weavers is the first ever study on the relationship between globalization and science fiction. Scientific innovations provide citizens of different nations with a unique common ground and the means to establish new connections with distant lands. This study attempts to investigate how our world has grown more and more interconnected not only due to technological advances, but also to a shared interest in those advances and to what they might lead to in the future. ER -