This book explores what science fiction can tell us about the human condition in a
technological world with the ethical dilemmas and consequences that this entails. This book is
the result of the joint efforts of scholars and scientists from various disciplines. This
interdisciplinary approach sets an example for those who like us have been busy assessing the
ways in which fictional attempts to fathom the possibilities of science and technology speak to
central concerns about what it means to be human in a contemporary world of technology and
which ethical dilemmas it brings along. One of the aims of this book is to demonstrate what can
be achieved in approaching science fiction as a kind of imaginary laboratory for
experimentation where visions of human (or even post-human) life under various scientific
technological or natural conditions that differ from our own situation can be thought through
and commented upon. Although a scholarly work this book is also designed to be accessible to a
general audience that has an interest in science fiction as well as to a broader academic
audience interested in ethical questions.
