The Macalester Review
Abstract
Stephen Jay Gould first proposed the idea of “iconographies of progress.” Today, one of the most prominent forms of progress iconography is the science fiction story. Science fiction as a genre frequently portrays evolution as a linear trajectory of increasing complexity, and in doing so, furthers a worldview that is not unlike the pre-Darwin understanding of human beings as both the center and the pinnacle of the natural world.
Recommended Citation
Pickreign, Jocelyn D.
(2013)
"Science Fiction and the Myth of Trajectory Evolution,"
The Macalester Review: Vol. 3:
Iss.
2, Article 1.
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