<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-indent:0pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style=""><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Dear all,</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-indent:0pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-indent:0pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">I'm writing for suggestions about a specific theme in science fiction studies. As is known to all, science fiction often depicts the human species as a whole, or reflect upon its general development in the </span><i style=""><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">longue durée</span></i><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">. In the field of scifi studies, topics such as posthuman and Anthropocene demonstrate scholars' concern with this characteristic. I'm wondering, however, if we can use other terms in related discussions. For example, "human community." </span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-indent:0pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="letter-spacing:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-indent:0pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Are there any research articles or full-length books dealing with the science-fictional imagination of the human community </span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">as a whole </span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">from then to the present? </span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-indent:0pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-indent:0pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Your recommendation is greatly appreciated. Thank you!</span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-indent:0pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-ori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