Science-fiction Studies, Issue 1SFS Publications., 1973 - Science fiction |
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... Childhood's End should demonstrate . From the moon - bound rockets of the " Prologue " to the last stage of the racial metamorphosis of mankind , familiar science fictions guide us gradually if jerkily through Childhood's End . Besides ...
... Childhood's End should demonstrate . From the moon - bound rockets of the " Prologue " to the last stage of the racial metamorphosis of mankind , familiar science fictions guide us gradually if jerkily through Childhood's End . Besides ...
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... Childhood's End is not a fully satisfying literary experience , it does illustrate certain characteristics of SF at its best , and it does exhibit literary virtues . Respect for rational thought , construction of a cosmic per- spective ...
... Childhood's End is not a fully satisfying literary experience , it does illustrate certain characteristics of SF at its best , and it does exhibit literary virtues . Respect for rational thought , construction of a cosmic per- spective ...
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tempt at maturity , Childhood's End is no more than a median stage of adolescence . California State University , Long Beach NOTES ' Mark R. Hillegas , The Future as Nightmare : H.G. Wells and the Anti - Utopians ... CHILDHOOD'S END 15.
tempt at maturity , Childhood's End is no more than a median stage of adolescence . California State University , Long Beach NOTES ' Mark R. Hillegas , The Future as Nightmare : H.G. Wells and the Anti - Utopians ... CHILDHOOD'S END 15.
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alien Bailey's become bourgeois Budrys C. S. Lewis characters Childhood's End Clareson Clarke Clarke's consciousness contemporary context cosmic criticism Darko Suvin described deviate Devil empirically empty games essay existence Explorers extrapolation fairy tale fantasy future Hillegas human hypotheses idea ideological imaginative impossible Indiana State University Iron Dream Jules Verne Karellen kind knowledge language Literary games literary genres literature logical man's mankind mathematics means metamorphosis modern moral Moré Moskowitz mysterious myth narrative narrator Nineteen Eighty-Four Norman Spinrad Northrop Frye novel ontological Orwell Overlords Overmind perhaps petty-bourgeois Pilgrims planet political radical rational reader real world realistic reality Robur the Conqueror romances rules science fiction Science-Fiction Studies scientific seems semantic sense SF writer shape social society space Spinrad Stapledon Stormgren structure style symbol technological tension terested theme tific tradition unknown utopia utopian Verne's vision Voyage Wells's whole Yevgeny Zamyatin Zamyatin