TY - BOOK AU - Tranter,Kieran TI - Living in technical legality: science fiction and law as technology T2 - Edinburgh critical studies in law, literature and the humanities SN - 9781474453707 AV - K487.T4 T73 2020 U1 - 344.095 23 PY - 2020/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Science fiction KW - History and criticism KW - Law in literature KW - Technology in literature KW - Law KW - ukslc KW - Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law KW - thema N1 - Previously issued in print: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - Through detailed readings of popular science fiction, including the novels of Frank Herbert and Octavia E. Butler and television's Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who, this is the first sustained examination of legality in science fiction. Kieran Tranter includes substantive worked examples of the law and legal concepts projected by these science fiction texts, such as Australian car culture, legal responses to cloning and the relationship between legal theory and science fiction. By examining science fiction as the culture of our total technological world, it journeys with the partially-consumed human into the belly of the machine UR - https://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474420891.001.0001 ER -