Milburn Colin
Department of English and Program in Science and Technology Studies, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA.
Isis. 2010 Sep;101(3):560-9. doi: 10.1086/655793.
Science fiction remains an alien dimension of the history of science. Historical and literary studies of science have become increasingly attentive to various "literary technologies" in scientific practice, the metaphorical features of scientific discourse, and the impact of popular science writing on the social development of scientific knowledge. But the function of science fiction and even literature as such in the history of scientific and technological innovation has often been obscured, misconstrued, or repudiated owing to conventional notions of authorship, influence, and the organic unity of texts. The better to address those close encounters where scientific practice makes use of speculative fiction, this essay proposes that we instead analyze such exchanges as processes of appropriation, remixing, and modification.
科幻小说仍然是科学史中一个陌生的领域。科学的历史研究和文学研究越来越关注科学实践中的各种“文学技术”、科学话语的隐喻特征，以及科普写作对科学知识社会发展的影响。但是，由于关于作者身份、影响力和文本有机统一的传统观念，科幻小说乃至文学本身在科技创新史上的作用常常被掩盖、误解或否定。为了更好地探讨科学实践运用推测性小说的那些亲密接触，本文建议我们将此类交流分析为挪用、重新混合和修改的过程。
