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Novelty "is a key concept that distinguishes science fiction from other genres, proposed by Su Enwen and further developed by subsequent critics, covering three dimensions: technology, ethics, and metaphor. The current research on the technological ethics of science fiction novels has not fully considered the novelty and uniqueness, and has not responded to the origin of the essence and technological ethical implications of science fiction novels. There is also a problem of replicating critical methods of other genres. This article aims to reveal the technological essence of science fiction through three novel dimensions, respond to the origin of the ethical implications of technology, and clarify the literary nature of science fiction.

review

Explored the historical origins of novel theories and their importance in science fiction. The ancient Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle regarded surprise as the origin of philosophy and wisdom, believing that it originated from natural phenomena and craftsmanship, and had cognitive and aesthetic functions. Aristotle emphasized the skill of poetics in creating wonder through singular language and plot. Suenwen traced the origin of the novel theory back to Bloch's "new", emphasizing its utopian connotations and its role in driving human change in the world. Wells proposed that the "elements of wonder" are related to the sociological and aesthetic functions of science fiction. Novelty plays a dominant role in science fiction poetics, but has been questioned by postmodernism. Marxists such as Jameson and Moiran justified novelty and emphasized its importance in science fiction. Xiaoxi Sairui Rone distinguishes novelty into material novelty and ethical novelty, believing that novelty is the starting point of science fiction research.

Novel technological dimensions

Science fiction has a close relationship with science and technology, where science corresponds to knowledge and principles, and technology is the application of science. Xiaoxi Serui Rone distinguishes between material novelty and ethical novelty, with the former involving technology and invention, and the latter involving science and discovery. Since ancient times, technology has had enlightening knowledge and the responsibility of uncovering. It is the same way of uncovering as science, but the difference lies in the object and path of uncovering. Modern technology is essentially a framework that drives out other possibilities for unblocking in the sense of coercion. The true correlation between technology and science is that technology dominates novelty. Science fiction is essentially a technology novel, and the novel technological dimension is an important basis for tracing the starting point of science fiction back to ancient Greece. The novel technological dimension endows novel cognition with rationality and coherence, making it the dominant narrative in the text and forming the foundation of the ethical implications of science fiction technology.

Novel ethical dimensions

The novel ethical dimension is interrelated with the technological dimension, with the former being the result of the latter's cognitive rationality and framing. The novelty of cognitive rationality requires its design to conform to the historical development logic and the relationships in the empirical world, while totality generates a demand for goodness. From ancient Greece to modern times, there has been a close relationship between technology and ethics. Either ethics constrains technology, or technology affects ethics. The cognitive rationality derived from novel technological dimensions demands ethical dimensions, and its overarching nature frames ethical dimensions within itself through the requirements for aesthetic qualities and the pursuit of self-improvement. The technological novelty in science fiction novels evokes a sense of nobility and strangeness in readers' minds, as these aesthetic qualities are subordinate to 'goodness'. The novel technological dimension has its own demands for improvement, requiring proper ethical behavior norms to achieve harmonious development of technology and ethics. The novel ethical dimension enables science fiction to conceive and explore new perspectives and knowledge about human relationships and potential, uncovering various ethical relationships that are still obscured. The dimensions of technology and ethics have achieved an organic unity in novelty, allowing science fiction novels to cross the boundaries of cognition, aesthetics, and ethics, providing readers with a prerequisite to focus on the issues of human survival and life in the technological society, enrich their ethical insights, and overcome technological alienation.

Novel metaphorical dimensions

Explored the importance of novelty as a poetic metaphor in science fiction, emphasizing the indispensable role of the zero degree world and the antagonistic tension between the real world constructed by it in science fiction. The novel metaphorical function aims to immerse readers in the world created by the text through rational cognition, and this immersive experience relies on the analogy between the zero degree world and the experiential world. The fundamental tension of science fiction lies in the confrontation between readers and the novelty induced others, making readers' empirical norms unfamiliar. The mechanism of the novel metaphorical dimension is alienation, closely related to the awareness of technological ethics. Unlike estrangement and alienation, the alienation in science fiction involves a dialectical process from familiarity to unfamiliarity and back to familiarity, generating cognitive effects about technological ethics. Readers should start from the experiential world, identify novelty in the zero degree world, explain its technological ethical dimensions, and then return to the experiential world for critical examination to achieve technological ethical cognition. Novelty has historical significance, and with the development of technology, novelty may become everyday. Therefore, the narrative effect of novelty needs to achieve a fusion of perspectives between the author, text, and reader's experiential world. Taking the technological crisis of the Anthropocene as a reference, the technological dreams or nightmares in science fiction can be interpreted as metaphors of the Anthropocene, comprehensively examining the relationship between technology and ethics, and seeking a balance point. Novelty aims to overcome technological alienation and inspire hope for historical change, echoing Bloch's utopian orientation towards the future.

conclusion

Emphasizing that science fiction, as a Heidegger framed world model, is closely linked to its technological ethics and aesthetic forms. The novel technological dimension constructs the cognitive foundation of technological ethics in science fiction, while the ethical dimension showcases the teleological ideas of science fiction change. The metaphorical dimension provides readers with a new understanding of the relationship between technology and ethics. Science fiction has become an important narrative mode in the Anthropocene, homogeneous with it because it can separate us from familiar time and space, and examine our own difficulties. Science fiction novels will run through the history of human civilization and influence social development. A society without science fiction may be in the light, but it is destined to go into darkness.