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In “Thinking in SF Mode” (2021), Isabelle Stengers distinguishes between philosophical thought experiments (such as Maxwell’s demon 1867 or Searle’s Chinese room) and the ability of speculative fiction to test hypothesizes in fully developed storyworlds, arguing for the heuristic power of fictional density and immersion. We push this hypothesis further by examining what embodied reading brings to the political and ecological exploration of terraforming (geoengineering) in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy (1992–1996).
Pierre-Louis Patoine (2024) studied this question.