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Video Gaming in Science Fiction: A Critical Study

Video Gaming in Science Fiction: A Critical Study

Paperback

Series: Studies in Gaming

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1476666377
ISBN13: 9781476666372
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Sep 28 2018
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

As video gaming and gaming culture became more mainstream in the 1970s, science fiction authors began to incorporate aspects of each into their work. This study examines how media-fueled paranoia about video gaming--first emerging almost fifty years ago--still resonates in modern science fiction. The author reveals how negative stereotypes of gamers and gaming have endured in depictions of modern gamers in the media and how honest portrayals are still wanting, even in the forward thinking world of science fiction.

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