This article argues that John Wyndham’s postwar novels represent a sustained attempt to analyze and problematize the relationship between knowledge, expertise, and society. Wyndham held vigorous opinions on the critical role that science fiction (SF) could and should play in modernity, even as his novels dissected the ultimate unsustainability of industrial urban democracies. He believed that it was the role of the SF writer to show that the pace and path of scientific and technological developments were not predetermined, but potentially subject to collective decision-making regarding the human future. This article explores Wyndham’s depiction of “experts” and “amateurs” in the context of his deployment of scientific and social-scientific concepts as he examined prospective futures, and argues that aspects of SF can be understood as practical STS or applied history of science that are firmly situated in an affective moral context.

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从技术员的盛会到逻辑幻想：

本文认为约翰·温德姆的战后小说代表了对知识、专业知识和社会之间关系进行分析和问题化的持续尝试。温德姆对科幻小说（SF）在现代性中可以而且应该发挥的关键作用持有强烈的看法，尽管他的小说剖析了工业城市民主的最终不可持续性。他认为科幻作家的角色是表明科技发展的步伐和路径不是预先确定的，而是可能受制于关于人类未来的集体决策。本文探讨了温德姆 (Wyndham) 在审视未来未来时部署科学和社会科学概念的背景下对“专家”和“业余爱好者”的描述，