关键词: 后现代主义, 超真实, 科幻小说, 类型文学

Abstract: As the “hyperreality” theory of Jean Baudrillard suggests, the cognition of real world is overwritten and controlled by the media and information in the postmodern society and forms a new perspective of reality. In contemporary China, the fast and vast application of technologies also rewrites the social landscape. Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Virtual Reality, Genetic Engineering...all these techniques and concepts have invaded into the discourse system of the mass, and brought big challenges to the capturing the truths and facts as a literature writer. This article starts from the practice of using A.I. as a writing assistant to discuss the change of writing process itself within the technology context. With the theories of Darko Suvin, Seo-young Chu and Frederick Jameson, it shows why Science Fiction as a genre is more capable to represent the era of technologies than the traditional literary genres. It also analyzes how the science fiction writers respond to the external challenges of technology development, medium revolution and aesthetic anomie and achieve the break-through of the genre.

Key words: Postmodernism, hyperreality, science fiction, genre literature