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Gutiérrez-Jones, Carlos. Suicide and Contemporary Science Fiction. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015., 2015. EBSCOhost, ezproxy.gsu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cat00477a&AN=gast.3382841&site=eds-live.

This book explores a fascination with suicidal crises evident in a range of science fiction. Suicidal crises are understood as behaviors with implicit or explicit suicidal intent (behavior that is self-directed and deliberately results in injury to oneself). Suicidal crises in science fiction are likely to resonate in ways that are both individual and collective. According to this book, a variety of influential science fiction films and novels have presented suicides as creative catalysts. For example, Fahrenheit 451, Solaris, V for Vendetta and etc. For example, Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange explores the ways that suicide’s trans formative potential may be subject to media manipulation in order to satisfy institutional agendas.

I chose this source because science fiction is a prominent genre today and suicide is as well. We rarely hear about many authors explain the relation of science fiction and suicide. I thought it would be very interesting to read on how suicide and science fiction coincide.