FANTASTIC BODY TRANSFORMATIONS

SCIENCE FICTION

features:

• genre of ideas, action and extrapolation
• a novum of cognitive innovation
• alternative history; dystopias & utopias
• social, climatic, geo- & ecological change
• scientific experiment, advanced technology
• fusion man – machine, genetic engineering
• encounter with difference (aliens)
• exploration of space, trips to other worlds 

examples:
H.G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895) 
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932) 
J.G. Ballard, The Drowned World (1962) 
Brian Aldiss, Helliconia Spring (1982) 
Paul McAuley, Fairyland (1995)