1832 Journal of Cultural Analytics 2371-4549 Center for Digital Humanities, Princeton University Website: Journal of Cultural Analytics 11068 10.22148/16.015 Article Towards a Poetics of Strangeness: Experiments in Classifying Language of Technological Novelty Simeone Michael Koundinya Advaith Gundavajhala Venkata Kumar Anandh Ravi Finn Ed 8 9 2017 2017 2 1 Articles in 2017 11068 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

The trajectory of science fiction since World War II has been defined by its rela-tionship with technoscientific imaginaries. In the Golden Age of the 1930s and 1940s, writers like Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein dreamed of the robots and

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