Open Access„Skrajny kwadrant gwiazdozbioru” – astronomia w fantastyce naukowej
Author(s) -
Mariusz M. Leś
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
bibliotekarz podlaski
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2544-8900
pISSN - 1640-7806
DOI - 10.36770/bp.622
Subject(s) - kepler , mythology , literature , plot (graphics) , fiction theory , space (punctuation) , literary fiction , philosophy , art , history , astronomy , physics , literary criticism , planet , linguistics , statistics , mathematics
As the author of the article claims, there exist close and lasting links between astronomy and science fiction genre. First and foremost, both of these phenomena developed in parallel since antiquity, and both have fiction at their centre as a socially established type of imagination. Scientific hypotheses use justified fabrication, and science fiction offers images of fictional cosmologies. Many writers of proto-science fiction brought astronomical concepts into social play. Among them were astronomers and philosophers who extensively used plot devices based on mythology or allegorical transformations: from Lucian of Samosata to Johannes Kepler. Space travel, beginning with Jules Verne’s prose, is an important part of the thematic resource of science fiction. Astronomy played an important role also in the beginnings of Polish science fiction, thanks to works of Michał Dymitr Krajewski and Teodor Tripplin.