Science-fiction Studies, Volume 26, Part 2SFS Publications., 1999 - Science fiction |
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Page 215
... global interpretation toward an explanation of this early adventure fiction and the early commentary that was directed toward it is simply that the early pioneers had a penetrating awareness that there was , indeed , an abundance of ...
... global interpretation toward an explanation of this early adventure fiction and the early commentary that was directed toward it is simply that the early pioneers had a penetrating awareness that there was , indeed , an abundance of ...
Page 257
... global commodity culture is dominated by the order of " simulation simulacra [ whose ] aim is maximum operationality , hyperreality , total control ” ; among other things , this has resulted in the death of the " good old SF imagination ...
... global commodity culture is dominated by the order of " simulation simulacra [ whose ] aim is maximum operationality , hyperreality , total control ” ; among other things , this has resulted in the death of the " good old SF imagination ...
Page 315
... global programs such as Artificial Life ( the open - ended simulation of organic evolution in computers ) . Underlying this history of the cybernetic research - program is the gradual substitution in Western epistemology of a polarity ...
... global programs such as Artificial Life ( the open - ended simulation of organic evolution in computers ) . Underlying this history of the cybernetic research - program is the gradual substitution in Western epistemology of a polarity ...
Contents
Gary Westfahl The Popular Tradition of Science Fiction | 187 |
Hassler The Academic Pioneers of Science Fiction | 213 |
OTHER ARTICLES | 284 |
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