Science-fiction Studies, Issue 1SFS Publications., 1973 - Science fiction |
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Page 5
... alien contact is expanded to include something close enough to the infinite , eternal , and unknowable that it could be called God ; yet even this being , called the Overmind , is rationalized , and assumed to be subject to natural laws ...
... alien contact is expanded to include something close enough to the infinite , eternal , and unknowable that it could be called God ; yet even this being , called the Overmind , is rationalized , and assumed to be subject to natural laws ...
Page 9
... alien beings in science fiction and the apocalyptic and demonic imagery of mythological fantasy . By deliberately choosing devil - figures as spokesmen for scien- tific , or scientistic , thought , he establishes a growing tension ...
... alien beings in science fiction and the apocalyptic and demonic imagery of mythological fantasy . By deliberately choosing devil - figures as spokesmen for scien- tific , or scientistic , thought , he establishes a growing tension ...
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... alien society and of the attempts of a representative bourgeois observer to know it empirically ( hence the importance of the observation of the Martians from the ruined house , a literal " camera obscura " ) . The narrator in The War ...
... alien society and of the attempts of a representative bourgeois observer to know it empirically ( hence the importance of the observation of the Martians from the ruined house , a literal " camera obscura " ) . The narrator in The War ...
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