Science-fiction Studies, Issue 1SFS Publications., 1973 - Science fiction |
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Page 10
... whole narrative . Clarke may want us to question the omniscience of science and the adequacy of the Overlords ; Karellen's speech denigrating the ability of human science to deal with e.s.p. can be fitted into either pattern , or both ...
... whole narrative . Clarke may want us to question the omniscience of science and the adequacy of the Overlords ; Karellen's speech denigrating the ability of human science to deal with e.s.p. can be fitted into either pattern , or both ...
Page 19
... whole range of Wells's writings to support this second theme , that of Wells as a socialist artist . He quotes passages from Wells's introduction to a Russian edition of his works ( 1911 ) in which he declares himself a non - Marxist ...
... whole range of Wells's writings to support this second theme , that of Wells as a socialist artist . He quotes passages from Wells's introduction to a Russian edition of his works ( 1911 ) in which he declares himself a non - Marxist ...
Page 42
... whole . And , of course , the book is not merely satirising the machismo of cer- tain minor literary genres , but the whole authoritarian bag . It is , like all Spinrad's serious works , a moral statement . The beauty of the thing is ...
... whole . And , of course , the book is not merely satirising the machismo of cer- tain minor literary genres , but the whole authoritarian bag . It is , like all Spinrad's serious works , a moral statement . The beauty of the thing is ...
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