Abstract
Science fiction stories extend the limits of human realities. In that imagined world where things appear different, mysterious, and normless, human measures such as sexism, prejudice, viciousness and other judicial realms are negotiated through atypical lenses. Therefore, what remains noticeable here would be the question if science fiction is an agent for social change and collective justice and decent mortalities. The main purpose of this article is to argue how Rudy Rucker's Transrealism -works as an interplay between dream and reality in which the writer shapes his/her own immediate perceptions in a fantastic way- can carry out this commitment. The selected text of analysis here will be Aldous Leonard Huxley' Brave New World (1932), which will be theoretically analyzed based on the doctrine of UN Social Justice in an Open World: The Role of the United Nations (2006) published under the auspices of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat. The main elements of UN document will be the Six important areas of inequality in the distribution of goods, opportunities and rights. The implication of the present inquiry would depict the role of science fiction novels, such as Huxley's Brave New World, to challenge today's human position in the world, to call for social values for a better community to exist and to restore social justice as a milestone for a fair new world to live in. Keywords: Transrealism; Science Fiction; UN Social Justice; Rudy Rucker; Brave New World
Highlights
Science fiction (SF) stories, historically, were the primary headway of science
Transrealism was initially coined in 1983 by Rudy Rucker – an American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author, and one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement- in his seminal manuscript written to The Bulletin of the Science Fiction Writers of America, where he defined his new literary term “not so much as a type of Science Fiction (SF), but as a type of avant-garde literature”: I feel that Transrealism is the only valid approach to literature at this point in history
In that imagined world where things appear different, mysterious, and normless, human measures such as sexism, prejudice, viciousness and other judicial realms are negotiated through atypical lenses
Summary
"If one's different, one's bound to be lonely" ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (p. 91). Transrealism is a mode that blends the methods of joining phenomenal components, utilized as a part of SF, with the systems of depicting quick observations from naturalistic reality Likewise, it is defined as a fictional style associated with realist streams, with the most successive display and with another position of the story subject, “which can be described as a new emotionality” Transrealism, coined by Rudy Rucker in 1983, describes a writing practice of blending science fiction tropes with realism in writing about immediate perception in a fantastic way, using "the tools of fantasy and science fiction to treat immediate reality, and the higher reality in which life is embedded"(Chettle 2013, p. In Broderick's view, the characters of transrealistic novels may resemble fictional in appearance, but they are real in society we live in and are rooted in today's reality
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