Sina Farzin

Susan M. Gaines

Roslynn D. Haynes

“Science in fiction,” “geek novels,” “lab-lit”—whatever one calls them, a new generation of science novels has opened a space in which the reading public can experience and think about the powers of science to illuminate nature as well as to generate and mitigate social change and risks. Under the Literary Microscope examines the implications of the discourse taking place in and around this creative space. Exploring works by authors as disparate as Barbara Kingsolver, Richard Powers, Ian McEwan, Ann Patchett, Margaret Atwood, and Michael Crichton, these essays address the economization of scientific institutions; ethics, risk, and gender disparity in scientific work; the reshaping of old stereotypes of scientists; science in an evolving sci-fi genre; and reader reception and potential contributions of the novels to public understandings of science. Under the Literary Microscope illuminates the new ways in which fiction has been grappling with scientific issues—from climate change and pandemics to artificial intelligence and genomics—and makes a valuable addition to both contemporary literature and science studies courses. In addition to the editors, the contributors include Anna Auguscik, Jay Clayton, Carol Colatrella, Sonja Fücker, Raymond Haynes, Luz María Hernández Nieto, Emanuel Herold, Karin Hoepker, Anton Kirchhofer, Antje Kley, Natalie Roxburgh, Uwe Schimank, Sherryl Vint, and Peter Weingart.

Science and Society in the Contemporary Novel

Under the Literary Microscope

Forum der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie. ISSN 0340-918X.

Soziologie Jg. 48 (2019) 4

Sylke Nissen

Karin Lange

Forum der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie

SOZIO 01/2020

Stefan Jordan

Hundert Grundbegriffe

Lexikon Soziologie und Sozialtheorie

Forum der Deutschen Gesellschaft für SoziologieISSN 0340-918X

Soziologie Jg. 48 (2019) 2

Sina Farzin

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