Science-fiction Studies, Issue 1SFS Publications., 1973 - Science fiction |
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... Overlords , without whom man could not have defused his own self- destructive tendencies . Yet , paradoxically , the Overlords are present in or- der to cut man off from entering their " evolutionary cul de sac " , to insure that he ...
... Overlords , without whom man could not have defused his own self- destructive tendencies . Yet , paradoxically , the Overlords are present in or- der to cut man off from entering their " evolutionary cul de sac " , to insure that he ...
Page 7
... Overlords ' having conquered this world after being forced to leave another . The Overlords are certainly well - versed in human mythic thinking : they require their first contacts to " ascend " to their ship , they assume a guise of om ...
... Overlords ' having conquered this world after being forced to leave another . The Overlords are certainly well - versed in human mythic thinking : they require their first contacts to " ascend " to their ship , they assume a guise of om ...
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... Overlords , George knows man has lost his future as man , Jan knows he can not survive cut off from humankind , and Karellen knows he will never find the kind of answers that he seeks . It is the reader's knowledge of impending doom ...
... Overlords , George knows man has lost his future as man , Jan knows he can not survive cut off from humankind , and Karellen knows he will never find the kind of answers that he seeks . It is the reader's knowledge of impending doom ...
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