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http://dx.doi.org/10.22156/CS4SMB.2019.9.6.130

Narrative Drive of Science Fiction: the Case of the Alternative Imagination of the Perfect Society  

Sohn, Na-Gyung (Tabula Rasa College, Keimyung University)
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Journal of Convergence for Information Technology / v.9, no.6, 2019 , pp. 130-139 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study investigates the future world of The Perfect Society (1967), science fiction written by Yunsung Moon that was a very rare science fiction publication in the 1960s. In The Perfect society, the main character Woo Sungoo, who was chosen to survive in a sleeping capsule as a representative of $20^{th}-century$ human beings, wakes in the $22^{nd}$ century where only women remain. He experiences this female utopia and finds that this world still contains as much abnormal antipathy to the others and absolute autocracy as the 20th-century world he remembers even though the future people succeed in overcoming the past problems like famine and pollution. The author warns that science alone without humanistic insight in a unity-oriented society cannot settle the human's fate; rather, it only changes the aspects of human conflict.
Keywords
Utopia; Science fiction; The Perfect Society; Cognitive estrangement; Dystopia;
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