SCIENCE FICTION – MYTHOLOGY OF TEHNICAL SOCIETY

Abstract

Observing the increasing popularity of science fiction as literar style, Author points out that science fiction has abandoned the sphere of mythology, to which it is still closely connected. Such popularity is based on the belief of contemporary intellectuals that science and technology are the entry for contemporary and future world, while the science fiction literature eliminates reader’s fear at the manifest level (anticipating the successful development of the work and mankind), and at the latent level (constructing the mythological »other world« in which humans exist inspite of death).