A survey of selected eco- and biotechnological dystopias or sf-ranging from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) to Tanith Lee's The Silver Metal Lover (1981), Marge Piercy's The Body of Glass (1991) and Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl (2002)-is followed by an in-depth model analysis of Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy (2003-2013).
The paper then traces the productive interchange between science and literature and the emergence of an increasingly (bio)technology-centred utopian/dystopian discourse that explores as key motif the link between the imagined intersection or interface of the human self (identity) and the machine/(bio)technological other/alterity, celebrating the future advent of post-humans and cautioning against such an impending doom. The article provides an overview of how literary and scientific imagination have been entangled and how views of the imagination’s intermediation between the material (body) and the immaterial (mind) have changed over the course of the centuries.
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