cognitive estrangement

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Suvin, in his book Metamorphoses of Science Fiction, defines science fiction as the literature of cognitive estrangement, defined as a “cognitive and critical” structuralist effort to “estrange the author’s and reader’s own empirical [i.e. observed] environment”.

What is Cognitive Estrangement? On Science Fiction & Le Guin Ryley 2021
Cognitive estrangement is a term coined by Darko Suvin to explain the effect that science fiction has on its reader.

What is Cognitive Estrangement? On Science Fiction & Le Guin Ryley 2021