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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="ru" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="issn">2313-8912</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Научный результат. Вопросы теоретической и прикладной лингвистики</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2313-8912</issn></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">DOI: 10.18413/2313-8912-2017-3-1-76-81</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">1904</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>ЛИТЕРАТУРА НАРОДОВ СТРАН ЗАРУБЕЖЬЯ</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>SCIENCE FICTION AND FUTURE HUMAN:&amp;nbsp; CYBORG, TRANSHUMAN AND POSTHUMAN&amp;nbsp;</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>SCIENCE FICTION AND FUTURE HUMAN:&amp;nbsp; CYBORG, TRANSHUMAN AND POSTHUMAN&amp;nbsp;</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Ali Mirenayat</surname><given-names>Sayyed</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Ali Mirenayat</surname><given-names>Sayyed</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>ali.mirenayat@yahoo.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1" /></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Bahar</surname><given-names>Ida Baizura</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Bahar</surname><given-names>Ida Baizura</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>idabb@upm.edu.my</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2" /></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Talif</surname><given-names>Rosli</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Talif</surname><given-names>Rosli</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>rtalif@upm.edu.my</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1" /></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Mani</surname><given-names>Manimangai</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Mani</surname><given-names>Manimangai</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>manimangai@upm.edu.my</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1" /></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff1"><institution>Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia</institution></aff><aff id="aff2"><institution>University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia</institution></aff><pub-date pub-type="epub"><year>2017</year></pub-date><volume>3</volume><issue>1</issue><fpage>0</fpage><lpage>0</lpage><self-uri content-type="pdf" xlink:href="/media/linguistics/2017/3/Научный_результат.Вопросы_теоретической_и_прикладной_лингвистики_Т3_1_4HiG6Kg.pdf" /><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>Since science and technology are intertwined with literature, a great number of writers have created different depictions under the label of Science Fiction which mostly shows various aspects of future human, life, culture, and society. Science Fiction will be exemplified through a number of notable Science Fiction stories in this paper; afterwards, it will outline various notable critics&amp;rsquo; notions about future forms of humans including cyborg, transhuman and posthuman, to examine two goals of immortality and superiority in Science Fiction. In sum, this is a literary review paper which presents an overview on Science Fiction and offers a broad discussion on the transformations including cyborg, transhuman and posthuman to distinguish these concepts from each other: transhuman as a transcended human, posthuman as an obsolete human, and cyborg as a machine man.&amp;nbsp;</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>science fiction</kwd><kwd>cyborg</kwd><kwd>transhuman</kwd><kwd>posthuman</kwd><kwd>transformation</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back /></article>