Science-fiction Studies, Volume 26, Part 2SFS Publications., 1999 - Science fiction |
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Page 177
... scientific novels , " " hypothetical novels , " and " novels of the future . " He hailed H.G. Wells as the modern " master of this literature " and pointed out its fundamentally mathematical nature : The social novel studies what ...
... scientific novels , " " hypothetical novels , " and " novels of the future . " He hailed H.G. Wells as the modern " master of this literature " and pointed out its fundamentally mathematical nature : The social novel studies what ...
Page 182
... scientific outlook to see that there are some things which actually ought not to be scientific . He is still slightly affected with the great scientific fallacy ; I mean the habit of beginning not with the human soul , which is the ...
... scientific outlook to see that there are some things which actually ought not to be scientific . He is still slightly affected with the great scientific fallacy ; I mean the habit of beginning not with the human soul , which is the ...
Page 185
... scientific plausibility . But an attempt to trace all the literature from this class , even in the last ten or twenty years , would be tiresome .... A very curious monograph might be produced by any qualified worker who would follow up ...
... scientific plausibility . But an attempt to trace all the literature from this class , even in the last ten or twenty years , would be tiresome .... A very curious monograph might be produced by any qualified worker who would follow up ...
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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