Science-fiction Studies, Issue 1SFS Publications., 1973 - Science fiction |
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... idea of how to produce a saleable short story [ and presumably a novel ] . That idea is to introduce an intriguing technological notion or scientific premise , and then use it to evoke frights or menaces . [ Thus he can ] raise a ...
... idea of how to produce a saleable short story [ and presumably a novel ] . That idea is to introduce an intriguing technological notion or scientific premise , and then use it to evoke frights or menaces . [ Thus he can ] raise a ...
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... idea is embodied in 255 pages of -- inevitably -- third - rate prose . This may not bother Spinrad . There are ... ideas and despite their prose . They are mostly written on about the level of this sentence from " Once More , With ...
... idea is embodied in 255 pages of -- inevitably -- third - rate prose . This may not bother Spinrad . There are ... ideas and despite their prose . They are mostly written on about the level of this sentence from " Once More , With ...
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... idea , a moral idea ; of the world of emotions and sensations , nothing exists but a vague atmosphere of charged violence , through which the reader is hurled forward breakneck towards the goal . To read a Spinrad short story is to be ...
... idea , a moral idea ; of the world of emotions and sensations , nothing exists but a vague atmosphere of charged violence , through which the reader is hurled forward breakneck towards the goal . To read a Spinrad short story is to be ...
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