Tailoring the cure: still science fiction?

Fiction informed by science.

Science Fiction and Macdonald's Polynomials

This work studies the remarkable relationships that hold among certain m-tuples of the Garsia-Haiman modules M and corresponding elements of the Macdonald basis. We recall that in 10], M is deened for a partition`n, as the linear span of derivatives of a certain bihomogeneouspolynomial (x; y) in the variables x 1 ; x 2 conjecturedin 6], 10] that M has n! dimensionsand that its bigraded Frobeniu...

The medical lessons of science fiction.

Literature and Medicine 20, no. 1 (Spring 2001) 13–25 © 2001 by Eric S. Rabkin *The Genre Evolution Project (GEP) web site (http://www.umich.edu/~genreevo) includes a Team Roster that lists the names of all faculty and students involved in this work from its inception. I particularly want to thank my friend and collaborator Carl P. Simon, Professor of Mathematics, Economics, Public Policy, and ...

The Posthuman Ethos in Cyberpunk Science Fiction

In her article "The Posthuman Ethos in Cyberpunk Science Fiction" María Goicoechea explores the posthuman tendencies of Anglo-American popular culture as they are manifested in the representations of the cyborgs, clones, and artificial intelligences that populate cyberpunk science fiction. Choosing the figure of the cyborg as the central myth of cyberculture, Goicoechea exposes the underlying t...

Writing the Future: Computers in Science Fiction

Although we cannot be certain that science fiction directly influenced the course that computing technology has taken over the past 50 years, the genre has-at the very least-anticipated the technologies we're using and developing. peculation ahout our future relationship to computers-and to technolngy in general-has limn the province of science fiction for at least a hundred years. But riot all...