Science-fiction Studies, Issue 1SFS Publications., 1973 - Science fiction |
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credits a mysterious device of alien manufacture with two quantum jumps in man's evolution , from pre - man , and to super - man ; its choppy structure , detailed technology , sparse suggestiveness of the evolutionary process , are all ...
credits a mysterious device of alien manufacture with two quantum jumps in man's evolution , from pre - man , and to super - man ; its choppy structure , detailed technology , sparse suggestiveness of the evolutionary process , are all ...
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... man's development . Theoretically , he could go in the direction of enlarging his storehouse of empirical knowledge ; this is the way of the Overlords , without whom man could not have defused his own self- destructive tendencies . Yet ...
... man's development . Theoretically , he could go in the direction of enlarging his storehouse of empirical knowledge ; this is the way of the Overlords , without whom man could not have defused his own self- destructive tendencies . Yet ...
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... man's tradition of systematic inquiry , or the successive approaches to technological utopia.2 They , and many readers since , have sensed in Clarke a streak of sentimental mysticism , which makes some of his SF quite congenial to their ...
... man's tradition of systematic inquiry , or the successive approaches to technological utopia.2 They , and many readers since , have sensed in Clarke a streak of sentimental mysticism , which makes some of his SF quite congenial to their ...
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