The Fifth International Symposium on the Poetics of Science FictionScience fiction is inseparable from the idea of space – “the final frontier”, as Star Trek defined it for the general audience. From its very inception in the works of H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, H. Rider Haggard and other 19th-century writers, SF has been concerned with exploring, mapping and conquering geographical and physical spaces. However, outer space is but one of the many continua the genre has ventured into.
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