The graduation work Ultima Thule made up by four parts, the first one is a science fiction world buliding made up of scripts, notes and sketches, the second one is a science fiction comic book in the edition of 200 with the name Everything in one place, this is the first part of the Ultima Thule-world. The third part is this report with text explaining the work process, and the third part was the participation in the Konstfack Spring Exhibition, this is also described in the report. Ultima Thule is a narrative about the end of humanity set in three Swedish cities; Västerås, Uppsala and Stockholm.

This diploma thesis on Commented Translation of Joël Casséus' Crépuscules consists of translation of the first three chapters of the Quebec novel Crépuscules into the Czech language and subsequent expert commentary. This commentary focuses on the analysis of the novel genre that balances science fiction and modern myth, as well as the Christiane Nord analysis of the original text through which it explores external factors such as author, reader, intention, text function or its motive and intra-text factors such as theme and content, composition, nonverbal components, lexicon, syntax, and suprasegmental phenomena. Subsequently, in the commentary, we deal with translation problems, their solutions and applied translation procedures such as transposition, modification, compensation, generalization or specification.

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In 1971, Isaac Asimov observed in humanity, a science-important society. For this he credited the man who had been his editor in the 1940s during the period known as the golden age of American science fiction, John W. Campbell, Jr. Campbell was editor of Astounding Science-Fiction, the magazine that launched both Asimov's career and the golden age, from 1938 until his death in 1971. Campbell and his authors set the foundation for the modern sci-fi, cementing genre distinction by the application of plausible technological speculation. Campbell assumed the science-important society that Asimov found thirty years later, attributing sci-fi ascendance during the golden age a particular compatibility with that cultural context. On another level, sci-fi's compatibility with "science-important" tendencies during the first half of the twentieth-century betrayed a deeper agreement with the social structures that fueled those tendencies and reflected an explication of modernity on capitalist terms. Tethered to an imperative of plausibly extrapolated technology within an American context, sci-fi authors retained the social underpinnings of that context. In this thesis, I perform a textual analysis of stories published in Astounding during the 1940s, following the sci-fi as it grew into a mainstream cultural product. In this, I prioritize not the intentions of authors to advance explicit themes or speculations. Rather, I allow the authors' direction of reader sympathy to suggest the way that favored characterizations advanced ideological bias. Sci-fi authors supported a route to success via individualistic, competitive, and private enterprise. They supported an American capitalistic conveyance of modernity. / Master of Arts

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T14:16:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 CARLOS A LOIOLA DE SOUZA.pdf: 415449 bytes, checksum: d861caf6da8174df5e70f24cd0bc6748 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-05-29 / Sci - fi books depending on how they are structured by their authors, might be in our case, the astronomer Carl Sagan, be used as reference texts in Science History by his indisciplinity. The specific case of interplanetary trips, theorized and thought scientificaly and advertised under a sci - fi language in books of Carl Sagan, is what this dissertation talks about.The authors of fiction texts, such as Sagan Arthur Charles Clarke and Issac Asimov, try to found their extrpolate in careful notes of trends that happen in society and science, and develop the ( narration, in Asmov and Clarke´s case ) implication or advertising with rigidity and consistency.On the other hand, part of the futuristic literature would be an important History of Science analysis instrument, for it to be possible of thinking in alternative proposals for a scientific policy and taught which may have a social reach. A kind of experiment or imaginary exercise. In other words, what is studied here, is the relation between sci - fi and science, which talks about interplanetary trips, and how they are explained in Sagan´s books. However, the dissertation, delimitates, in the first instance, must be considered about interplanetary trips, its dissimilation from the 30´s to the 60´s and the adverstising through two of the best sci - fi writers of the twentieth century, whose work was to advertise scientific ideas or Astronautic for a better understanding of the science, its role and the impact of science and technology, in a society which moves really fast, but without many details. After all, as it was a relevant realization of some of these realized fantasies by Carl Sagan´s commitment, initially, with the American industial military complexduring the Cold War against USSR, and after that by NASA.And what we have learned scientifically from the exploration of the Solar Sistem and the nearest planets, in a way that the results of this spacial exploration could be advertised with the help from literature and fiction, in a type of alert about the problems that we will have to face in a near future. At last, the mankind destiny, imagined by Sagan in a kind of manifest advertised by himself in his main books and analysed here for it to be possible to keep its parallelism of contents and trends between sci - fi books and the academic literatureabout the development of science and technology and the destiny of mankind and the individuals that make itself. This is a conclusion that History students having a beginning or complementary graduation in humanities, will be able to find on the shelves of science history, a worthy manifest for an unexpective reflection or for a militancy / Obras de ficção científica podem, dependendo de como estiverem estruturadas por seus autores, em nosso caso, o astrônomo Carl Sagan, ser usadas como textos de referência em História da Ciência por sua interdisciplinaridade. O caso específico das viagens interplanetárias, pensadas e teorizadas cientificamente e divulgadas sob a linguagem da ficção científica nos livros de Carl Sagan, é o de que se ocupa esta dissertação. Os autores de textos de ficção, como os colegas de Sagan Arthur Charles Clarke e Isaac Asimov, procuram, como acontece com textos teóricos acadêmicos, assim como também eram alguns dos textos de Sagan, fundamentar suas extrapolações em observações cuidadosas de tendências em ação na sociedade e na ciência e desenvolver sua (narração, no caso de Asimov e Clarke) implementação ou divulgação com rigor e consistência. Ou seja, parte da literatura futurística seria um instrumento importante de análise de História da Ciência para que esta possa pensar em propostas alternativas para uma política científica e de ensino científico que tenha um alcance social. Uma espécie de experimento ou exercício imaginário. Em outras palavras, o que aqui se estuda é a relação entre ficção científica e ciência que fale das viagens interplanetárias e como elas estão expressas nas obras de Sagan. Portanto, a dissertação delimita o que, em primeiro lugar, deve-se considerar sobre as viagens interplanetárias, sua disseminação nos anos de 1930 a 1960 e sua divulgação através de dois dos melhores escritores de ficção científica do século XX, que se empenharam em divulgar idéias científicas ou de Astronáutica para uma melhor compreensão da ciência, do papel da ciência e do impacto da ciência e tecnologia numa sociedade com uma velocidade em movimento rápido, mas sem muitos detalhes. Depois, como foi a realização primordial de algumas dessas fantasias realizadas pelo envolvimento de Carl Sagan, inicialmente, com o complexo militar industrial dos Estados Unidos da América durante a Guerra Fria com a URSS e depois pela NASA. E o que se aprendeu, cientificamente, com a exploração de nosso sistema solar e de nossos planetas mais próximos, de maneira que esses resultados da exploração espacial pudessem ser divulgados com a ajuda da literatura de ficção em forma de alerta sobre os problemas que teremos de enfrentar num futuro bem próximo. E, por último, o destino da humanidade imaginado por Sagan numa espécie de manifesto divulgado por ele mesmo em seus principais livros e aqui analisado para que se pudesse manter o paralelismo de conteúdo e tendências entre as obras de ficção e a literatura acadêmica sobre o desenvolvimento da ciência e da tecnologia e o destino da humanidade e dos indivíduos que a compõem. Isto nos leva a concluir que o estudante de História da Ciência, tendo uma formação inicial ou complementar em humanidades, poderá encontrar na estante de História da Ciência um valioso manifesto para uma reflexão despretensiosa ou para a militância

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