Science-fiction Studies, Volume 27, Part 1SFS Publications., 2000 - Science fiction |
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... future , the Japanese became more and more important as the country most likely to dominate the world in the twenty - first century . As this economic prowess is called into question , so might the role of the Japanese in our cultural ...
... future , the Japanese became more and more important as the country most likely to dominate the world in the twenty - first century . As this economic prowess is called into question , so might the role of the Japanese in our cultural ...
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... futures recur persistently outside that subgenre , and it seems rare today to find even one near - future sf novel that doesn't contain at least one reference to Japan as a symbol of high tech or triumphant industrialism . In what ...
... futures recur persistently outside that subgenre , and it seems rare today to find even one near - future sf novel that doesn't contain at least one reference to Japan as a symbol of high tech or triumphant industrialism . In what ...
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... future , but to create it . In Gibson's own words : " Anyone who thinks science fiction is about the future is being naive . Science fiction doesn't predict the future ; it determines it , colonizes it , preprograms it in the image of ...
... future , but to create it . In Gibson's own words : " Anyone who thinks science fiction is about the future is being naive . Science fiction doesn't predict the future ; it determines it , colonizes it , preprograms it in the image of ...
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Wrapped in that mysterious | 22 |
Michael Fisch Nation War and Japans Future in the Science | 49 |
AI ALife and | 69 |
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