Science-fiction Studies, Volume 26, Part 2SFS Publications., 1999 - Science fiction |
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Page 167
... reader should attempt to suspend disbelief and imagine that " the Moon should be habitable . " Moreover , to further bolster its plausibility , E.M. hints at the possibility of Godwin's fiction as portraying a potentially real future ...
... reader should attempt to suspend disbelief and imagine that " the Moon should be habitable . " Moreover , to further bolster its plausibility , E.M. hints at the possibility of Godwin's fiction as portraying a potentially real future ...
Page 168
... reader indignation by freely acknowledging the author's temerity beforehand , asking for the reader's indulgence , and pointing out " authorita- tive " precedents to such audacious imaginings : It is not that I wish to impose on anyone ...
... reader indignation by freely acknowledging the author's temerity beforehand , asking for the reader's indulgence , and pointing out " authorita- tive " precedents to such audacious imaginings : It is not that I wish to impose on anyone ...
Page 228
... reader with an unknown or “ supernatural ” event , but that the reader “ ends by acknowledging its ' naturalness . ” ” And Scholes speaks of the necessity for a " radical discontinuity " in which extrapolations " must depart from what ...
... reader with an unknown or “ supernatural ” event , but that the reader “ ends by acknowledging its ' naturalness . ” ” And Scholes speaks of the necessity for a " radical discontinuity " in which extrapolations " must depart from what ...
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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