Download or read book Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism written by E. Gomel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism offers a typology of alien encounters and addresses a range of texts including classic novels of alien encounter by H.G. Wells and Robert Heinlein; recent blockbusters by Greg Bear, Octavia Butler and Sheri Tepper; and experimental science fiction by Peter Watts and Housuke Nojiri.