Science-fiction Studies, Issue 1SFS Publications., 1973 - Science fiction |
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Page 5
... rational utopian societies and mysterious glimpses of extra - sensory powers . Reducing all of these , however , practically to the status of leitmotifs , the theme of alien contact is expanded to include something close enough to the ...
... rational utopian societies and mysterious glimpses of extra - sensory powers . Reducing all of these , however , practically to the status of leitmotifs , the theme of alien contact is expanded to include something close enough to the ...
Page 12
... rational , unless belief in rationality in the face of the incom- prehensible is itself irrational . Even their mental processes are shown to us in formal , grammatical sentences , with no trace of irrational stream - of- consciousness ...
... rational , unless belief in rationality in the face of the incom- prehensible is itself irrational . Even their mental processes are shown to us in formal , grammatical sentences , with no trace of irrational stream - of- consciousness ...
Page 21
... rational , eye - witness observer who only emerges as insanely misanthropic in the final pages . By such con- cealments the displacement of the whole narrative is avoided . The reversal in each of these stories shatters the confidence ...
... rational , eye - witness observer who only emerges as insanely misanthropic in the final pages . By such con- cealments the displacement of the whole narrative is avoided . The reversal in each of these stories shatters the confidence ...
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