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In psychology, sublimation is a mature type of defense mechanism, in which socially unacceptable impulses or idealizations are transformed into socially acceptable actions or behavior, possibly resulting in a long-term conversion of the initial impulse.
Mind uploading—transferring an individual's personality to a computer—appears in several works of fiction. [1] It is distinct from the concept of transferring a consciousness from one human body to another. [2] [3] It is sometimes applied to a single person and other times to an entire society. [4]
For her short stories she has won the annual Shirley Jackson Award [1] and been nominated for the Astounding Award for Best New Writer. [2] Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine , Lightspeed , Apex Magazine , Strange Horizons , Fantasy Magazine , Beneath Ceaseless Skies , Cast of Wonders , and khōréō .
It was originally published in August 1966 in Analog Science Fiction and Fact. [1] The story uses the idea of "slow glass": glass through which light takes years to pass. Bob Shaw used this idea again in later stories. [1] The story's title is derived from Thomas Moore's poem "Oft, in the Stilly Night", which is quoted within the story.
The sublime has also been described as a key to understanding the sense of wonder concept in science fiction literature, [14] and in connection with Kenneth Burke's rhetorical aesthetic theory of form. [15] In early modernist discourse, the urban landscape became an important subject of the sublime.
Michio Kaku, in collaboration with Science, hosted a documentary, Sci Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible, based on his book Physics of the Impossible. Episode four, titled "How to Teleport", mentions that mind uploading via techniques such as quantum entanglement and whole brain emulation using an advanced MRI machine may enable people to be ...
The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge is a collection of science fiction short stories by American writer Vernor Vinge. The stories were first published from 1966 to 2001, and the book contains all of Vinge's published short stories from that period except " True Names " and " Grimm's Story ".
Frederik Pohl's science fiction work The Age of the Pussyfoot (1966–1969) tells the story of a man revived from cryopreservation in the year 2527, having died in a fire 500 years earlier. Although relatively few stories explore cryonics for medical time travel, Edgar Allan Poe's mentioned story (1845) includes a mummy, mentioning the use of ...