Science-fiction Studies, Volume 29, Issue 1SFS Publications, 2002 - Science fiction |
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... scientific and technological know - how . But look closer . Note the degree of vagueness and obscurity that mask the details of this apparently complex contrivance : amorphous terms such as " huge , " " massive , " and " an infinity of ...
... scientific and technological know - how . But look closer . Note the degree of vagueness and obscurity that mask the details of this apparently complex contrivance : amorphous terms such as " huge , " " massive , " and " an infinity of ...
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... Scientific thought was an important instrument in expanding the nineteenth century's sense of the richness of nature , which gradually came to include the freakish anomaly as a legitimate part of the natural order . Scientific discovery ...
... Scientific thought was an important instrument in expanding the nineteenth century's sense of the richness of nature , which gradually came to include the freakish anomaly as a legitimate part of the natural order . Scientific discovery ...
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... scientific reason . In this vein the x - ray , the Rutherford - Bohr atom , and the concept of entropy might all have been considered grotesque by conventional society , based on past scientific orthodoxies . Science's social function ...
... scientific reason . In this vein the x - ray , the Rutherford - Bohr atom , and the concept of entropy might all have been considered grotesque by conventional society , based on past scientific orthodoxies . Science's social function ...
Contents
The Dickian Legacy Postmo | 15 |
Anthony Enns Mediality and Mourning in Stanislaw Lems Solaris | 34 |
Istvan CsicseryRonay Jr On the Grotesque in Science Fiction | 71 |
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