Traduire la xéno-encyclopédie en finnois et en français : une approche pragmatique by Martin Carayol

“…The translation of neologisms is of particular importance in works of science fiction, where they are often abundant because of their role in the development of the « xeno-encylopedia », the body of knowledge relating to the fictional world constructed by the work. …”
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Les envahisseurs de l’espace sont parmi nous : vers une esthétique quotidienne du pixel by Anne Besson

“…Cet article montre comment certaines icônes d’une science-fiction populaire et ludique – en tout premier lieu les « Space Invaders » d’un des premiers et des plus fameux jeux d’arcade (Taïto, 1978) – en sont venues à occuper le premier plan d’un jeu avec et contre « l’artificialisation du monde » (Couchot et Hilaire), où il s’agit faire sortir la fiction de ses lieux pour organiser son invasion du réel. …”
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Retraduire Limbo : le syndrome littéraire du membre fantôme by Alice Ray

“…This cynical novel offers an original way of writing and its content is also quite innovative: the novel paints a cybernetic posthumanity using both science fiction codes and Wolfe’s own elements of writing, which can raise some difficulties for the translators. …”
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Unveiling Koreanness in Yoon Ha Lee’s Dragon Pearl: Cultural Representation and Translation Strategies by Byoung Yoong Kang

“…Ultimately, this paper underscores the importance of preserving cultural integrity translating science fiction works that embody cross-cultural narratives. …”
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„А вы в конец света верите?”. Апокалипсис в современной русской литературе: пророчества индейцев в романе Дмитрия Глуховского „Сумерки"... by Ireneusz Szarycz

“…This is the question that Glukhovsky already asked his readers in his previous, dark and apocalyptic science fiction novel Metro 2033 (2005) about a bleak and not-too-distant future. …”
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Subject in the age of technological domination: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury by Ahmetagić Jasmina

“…Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is a science fiction novel, but in its picture of the world, the protagonist's encounter with the teenage girl Clarisse has the status of a fantastic event, which triggers his transformation: one of the pillars of the system becomes an outlaw and an adversary. …”
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La salle de cinéma comme attraction spectacle : le cas Captain Eo à Disneyland Paris by Jean-Baptiste Massuet

“…This article tries to question the link between the public and a precise movie theater, in Disneyland Paris Marne-La-Vallée, proposing again since june 2010 the attraction Captain Eo, science-fiction 3D movie by Francis Ford Coppola in 1986, starring Michael Jackson. …”
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Biocapitalisme et schizophrénie : repenser la frontière Frankenstein by Sean McQueen

“…Les devenirs-animaux de Deleuze et Guattari sont particulièrement utiles pour repenser « la frontière Frankenstein » instaurée par George Slusser : le moment durant lequel l’histoire de science-fiction se replie sur elle-même à travers le déni du futur, qui s’accompagne d’une régression vers des relations oedipiennes. …”
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L’empire de l’imaginaire : la fin du monde et son rapport à l’histoire dans l’œuvre de Lucian Boia by Aurélien Portelli

“…The scale and reality of the threats identified by collapse theorists nevertheless tend to disqualify the analogy between their prediction and end-of-the-world myths based on religious beliefs or science fiction scenarios. From this point of view, all the ends of the world could not be equal. …”
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Thinking Mythologically: Black Hawk Down, the “Platoon Movie,” and the War of Choice in Iraq by Richard Slotkin

“…That myth was discredited by defeat in Vietnam; but starting in 1980, American war films, and war-themed science fiction films, seconded the work of neo-conservative policy makers to recuperate the “war imaginary.” …”
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Learning from our vulnerabilities: Insights from Octavia E. Butler’s parable of the sower and West Sumatra’s 2024 flood disasters by Sandika Edria, Rizano Gindho, Yeni Marliza

“…This article discusses the correlation between flood disasters in West Sumatra in March and May 2024 and the science fiction novel Parable in the Sower by Octavia E. …”
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Voyage au centre de la chair : l’exploration miniature du corps humain dans les jeux vidéo by Fleur Hopkins

“…This paper studies the theme of traveling through a body, human or even monstrous, in science fiction video games. We can identify five types of inner travels : a struggle with a living being, who has just swallowed the hero to destroy him and that needs to be annihilated from the inside ; a marvelous exploration meant to learn more about the human body ; shooting or strategy games that take place within the body ; an army patrol in a sick body, in order to fight the disease that is taking over the player ; augmented and virtual reality displays that enable doctors to see through the body, made transparent. …”
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En lisière des espaces : Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell et le paysage urbain de Hong Kong by Wong Kin Yuen

“…Les films de science-fiction tels que Blade Runner et Ghost in the Shell développent un profond intérêt pour le paysage urbain de Hong Kong au tournant du siècle. …”
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Harmonie, la critique d’un « totalitarisme mou » par un roman japonais by Thomas Michaud

“…It also regularly produces science fiction stories interviewing innovators about the ethics and morals of their discoveries and new products.…”
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Méditations sur le « Paradoxe Pulp » : Pal, la Paramount et les pulps de SF by Jay P. Telotte

“…It examines this notion by considering a partnership in the 1950s between producer George Pal, major film studio Paramount Pictures, and the most respected of the sf pulps, Astounding Science Fiction. In this period Astounding published a series of articles sponsored by Pal and Paramount designed to help market a group of films: Destination Moon (1950), When Worlds Collide (1951), The War of the Worlds (1953), and Conquest of Space (1955). …”
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De la bibliothèque au « Tesseract » : une représentation borgésienne de la littérature dans le film de Christopher Nolan Interstellar (2014)  by Emmanuel Buzay

“…In addition to the reading paths that many of the works in this library suggest, the imaginary of mediation through books also plays an essential function in the world sketched out by this science fiction film. Because it is decisive for understanding the way in which the library, as a memory of the world, rethinks humanity, its mutations, and its limits in a journey through time, the constant represented by the figure of the “book in the film” reveals a double identity which, although based on scientific knowledge, nonetheless reactivates an immemorial imaginary with its mythologies. …”
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Aesthetics fiction ? Comics, avant-gardes visuelles et genre dans Doom Patrol de Grant Morrison by Cyril Besson

“…Science-fiction et avant-garde ont au moins ceci en commun qu’elles ont le souci d’être à la pointe de leurs domaines respectifs. …”
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Les voix post-humaines : Le thème de l’infestation extra-terrestre et la poétique de la subjectivité by Elana Gomel

“…Cet article analyse les représentations narratives de la subjectivité post-humaine dans plusieurs textes de science-fiction dont l’intrigue se concentre sur la prise de pouvoir des extra-terrestres sur les humains. …”
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The Legacy of Nineteen Eighty-Four: British Dystopias, from 1984 to the present day by Claire Wrobel

“…The latter’s preference for realism rather than science fiction, their focus on an individual protagonist, and the centrality of themes such as language, individual and collective memory and historiography may be regarded as evidence of an Orwellian posterity. …”
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Le paysage spatial : de l’Ecole de Barbizon aux Pulp magazines by Elsa De Smet

“…Cet article propose d’aborder l’influence de la peinture de paysage européenne sur les illustrations d’astronomie au début du xxe siècle puis la large contamination de cette iconographie sur les couvertures de pulps magazines américains illustrant des histoires de science-fiction dans la décennie 1950.…”
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