Science-fiction Studies, Issue 1SFS Publications., 1973 - Science fiction |
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... Technological extrapolation , the enthronement of reason , the " cosmic viewpoint " , alien contact , and a " sense of wonder❞ achieved largely through the manipulation of mythic symbolism are all important elements in this visionary ...
... Technological extrapolation , the enthronement of reason , the " cosmic viewpoint " , alien contact , and a " sense of wonder❞ achieved largely through the manipulation of mythic symbolism are all important elements in this visionary ...
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... 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 own views , unconstrained by the scientist's straitjackets of ...
... 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 own views , unconstrained by the scientist's straitjackets of ...
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... technological notion or scientific premise , and then use it to evoke frights or menaces . [ Thus he can ] raise a formidable reputation for profundity by repeating , over and over again , that the universe is wide and man is very small ...
... technological notion or scientific premise , and then use it to evoke frights or menaces . [ Thus he can ] raise a formidable reputation for profundity by repeating , over and over again , that the universe is wide and man is very small ...
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