Science-fiction Studies, Issue 1SFS Publications., 1973 - Science fiction |
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... society . The frustrated takeoff of the Prologue's moon - rockets is echoed by Karellen's edict that " the Stars are not for Man " , and by Jan's discovery of the edict's essential if not literal truth ( are the children still " man ...
... society . The frustrated takeoff of the Prologue's moon - rockets is echoed by Karellen's edict that " the Stars are not for Man " , and by Jan's discovery of the edict's essential if not literal truth ( are the children still " man ...
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... society with his strange forward - looking logic , he had foreseen the revolutionary age when reality would itself become fantastic . Zamyatin credited him with the invention of a type of fable reflecting the demands of modern ex ...
... society with his strange forward - looking logic , he had foreseen the revolutionary age when reality would itself become fantastic . Zamyatin credited him with the invention of a type of fable reflecting the demands of modern ex ...
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... society ; its experience and its culture are structured in ways we can never fully understand . The narrator tries to explain things for the benefits of alien peoples stuck at a twentieth - century level of development , but he also ...
... society ; its experience and its culture are structured in ways we can never fully understand . The narrator tries to explain things for the benefits of alien peoples stuck at a twentieth - century level of development , but he also ...
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